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Nercomp08 LMS Migration
- 1. OS LMS TAC: What Will We Do with the Leftover $296,397 Clark Shah-Nelson, Coordinator of Online Education SUNY Delhi College of Technology Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike: Clark Shah-Nelson, 2008.
- 2. Background SUNY Delhi: over sixty 1, 2, and 4 year programs approximately 2700 students In house WebCT server since 2004 Also hosted courses on SUNY Learning Network Predominantly web-enhanced courses Small but increasing number of fully online / asynchronous courses
- 3. Online Courses and Enrollments Growth:
- 4. Online Coordinator Began December 2006 Past experience teaching with E-Education (Jones) (1999-2001) eCollege (2001-2007) Past experience admin/support for: Blackboard (2006) Position described working with WebCT and SLN…
- 5. The Task… Research and select a new system Migrate courses Train users Develop orientations, documentation, etc. By end of 2008… No time for lengthy focus group sessions, LMS comparisons, etc.
- 6. Documentation Agile Project Management Requirements Gathering in Confluence wiki Business, Technical, Functional Requirements: Integration with Luminis Message Broker for course setup, user enrollment via Banner Match current functions of WebCT Upload and store media files Online quizzes, discussions, etc.
- 7. TCO vs. TAC Total Cost of Ownership: Include on-going services, support External costs and systems, bandwidth, electricity, exact # of minutes spent on tasks, etc. Better for analysis for new services/systems? Total Alternative Cost If we change to a new system, what alternative or additional costs will we incur, including staffing?
- 13. Final Selection Outsourced Open Source LMS: Moodle hosted by Moodlerooms, Inc. Do we need to hire more personnel? No. Is the LMS stable and secure? Yes.
- 14. Out vs. In Downsides: A bit slower than in house (bandwidth) Help - contact another company rather than the tech around the corner Upsides: Campus outages not affected Sys Admin focused ONLY on Moodle They purchase and maintain/replace software/machines
- 15. Open vs. Enterprise Rich community of user forums, tutorials, resources, bug tracker Less Cost - at all levels Luminis Message Broker Digester - $0 WebCTimport tool - $0 Just as stable and more feature-rich More social networking capability, Web 2.0 Quicker to gain new features More customizable Did I mention cost?
- 16. Timeline March 2007 - Hostmonster account set up with multiple instances of Moodle for training development, experimentation, etc. ($75 /year splurge) May 2007 - Course development server established June 2007 - Initial training modules developed and delivered July 2007 - Begin test Luminis Message Broker / Banner integration Fall 2007 - initial courses developed for Spring 2008 production server October 2007 - establish and test production server Spring 2008 - offer Nursing BSN and Vet Tech courses on production server Spring/Summer 2008 - additional training offered, Summer courses migrated Summer 2008 - Fall courses migrated from WebCT/SLN Fall 2008 - additional training and J-term/Spring course migration
- 17. Faculty Members Concerned about training: Took much less time than WebCT to learn Easier to use More features Exciting new possibilities iPod training program Concerned about converting courses: We do that for them Webctimport plugin from moodle.org
- 18. Students Love the new system: Easier to navigate than WebCT Like having images of fellow students Easier to follow discussions
- 19. Coordinator Faculty are more self-sufficient More fun to administer More focus on training Hosted in expert environment High level of customization More funds for faculty development
- 20. Staff More interested in using the LMS for training and staff development See LMS as a way to reach students Involved with Moodle Orientation for students No noticable difference for registration, enrollments, etc.
- 21. Administration Left research and decision in our hands Appreciate “international-ness” Bottom line: Furthering educational mission $$$: The Pot of Gold
- 22. The End Questions? Clark Shah-Nelson [email_address] www.delhi.edu - Confluence wiki documentation http://blogs.nercomp.org/blogs/nac2008/ 2-3-98 - Open Source Conference and Moodle Moot at SUNY Delhi June 19/20, 2008 www.delhi.edu/2-3-98/