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Hoping to develop a more flexible way of building World Wide Web pages for their online courses, a group of universities has begun designing a course-management system that will be free and whose ...

Molly Tipton failed at her first try last winter at putting classroom resources and homework assignments online—via a class MySpace page—after parents said they feared their children might get into ...

Not sharing the CMS is a missed opportunity to bridge some of the gaps between instruction and administrative areas. For over a year I have been asking colleagues at universities around the country a ...

(Two years ago I asked my son Ryan to review his university’s use of the campus CMS. At the time he issued an “Incomplete” with the comment, “my teachers are finally learning how to Blackboard.” With ...

Faculty members also may use a Web-based learning management system (the college currently uses Lyceum). Bates College considers its learning management system an extension of the classroom, and ...