This document discusses course management systems. It provides a broad definition, outlines common elements and tools, and examines current trends. These trends include the integration of online and offline education ("brick and click"), the growing importance of open-source systems, and the ongoing competition between large proprietary vendors and smaller open-source alternatives. The document also notes that course management systems provide increased access to instructional materials and tools while allowing various forms of communication between instructors and students.

1. Broad definition
Common elements/tools
Current trends

2. “brick and mortar”
“click”
“brick and click” 1
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3. What’s in common
In a well supplied

4. - a digital means of organizing and delivering
a course of instruction

5. Web-assisted 4
or
Class-assisted

6. Traveling tutors
“Cities of intellect” 1
The net
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7. - Provides increased access to instruction
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8. - Provides increased access to instruction
- Delivers a variety of resources / tools

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10. - Loss of functionality
-Decrease in effectiveness of effective
employees
-Productivity gains over time
-Focus will change 1
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12. - Provides increased access to instruction
- Delivers a variety of resources / tools
- Allows for a variety of communications

13. -Instructor and learner
-Learner and Learner
-Instructor and Instructor
-Learner/instructor and the world

14. - is no longer the question.

15. - Global market and competition
- Using a CMS is a skill
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16. Currently about 60
$860 million and growing 3

17. - Enterprise
- Vast market share
- Losing some ground 2

18. - Open source
- Double digit market share and gaining
- “Free like a puppy”
- Moodlerooms 2

19. http://www.edutools.info/item_list.jsp?pj=4

21. Bibliography of on-screen references.
1 EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research. "Course Management Systems in
the History
and Future of Higher Education." EDUCAUSE. N.p., 2003. Web. 18 Jan.
2010.
<http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ers0302/rs/ers030210.pdf>.
2 Trotter,Andrew. "Market for K-12 Course-Management Systems Expands."
EducationWeek. N.p., 22 Feb. 2008. Web. 18 Jan. 2010.
<http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2008/02/27/25biz.h27.html>.
3 Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. "Virtual Learning Environment." Wikipedia The
Free
Encyclopedia. N.p., 18 Jan. 2010. Web. 31 Jan. 2010.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_learning_environment>.
4Cohen, David. "Course-Management Software: Where's the Library."
EDUCAUSE:
e-Content. EDUCAUSE, June 2002. Web. 18 Jan. 2010.
<http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/erm0239.pdf>.
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22. Bibliography all references used in narrative.
e-Content. EDUCAUSE, June 2002. Web. 18 Jan. 2010.
<http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/erm0239.pdf>.
EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research. "Course Management Systems in the
History
and Future of Higher Education." EDUCAUSE. N.p., 2003. Web. 18 Jan. 2010.
<http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ers0302/rs/ers030210.pdf>.
"Managing Online Education:The Instructional, Operational, and Technological
Infrastructure of Online Education Programs." The Campus Computing Project.
N.p., Oct. 2009. Web. 18 Jan. 2010. <http://www.campuscomputing.net/
sites/www.campuscomputing.net/files/
ManagingOnlineEd2009-Exec%20Summary_0.pdf>.
Sakai. Sakai Foundation, n.d. Web. 18 Jan. 2010.
<http://sakaiproject.org/>.
Trotter, Andrew. "Market for K-12 Course-Management Systems Expands."
EducationWeek. N.p., 22 Feb. 2008. Web. 18 Jan. 2010.
<http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2008/02/27/25biz.h27.html>.

23. Bibliography all references used in narrative (continued).
WCET. Edu Tools. N.p., 2010. Web. 18 Jan. 2010. <http://www.edutools.info/
item_list.jsp?pj=4>.
The Staff of Brandon Hall Research. How to Buy e-Learning Systems, Tools,
and
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Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. "Virtual Learning Environment." Wikipedia The
Free
Encyclopedia. N.p., 18 Jan. 2010. Web. 31 Jan. 2010.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_learning_environment>.

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