Content Management Systems: Enabling E- Teaching and Learning

Anju Relan and Sally KrasneDavid Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Overview

Part I: Why use a CMS? Dissecting a Content Management System Understanding E-learning standards

Part II: DG School of Medicine Case Study Facilitating learning with CMS’s Evaluation of a CMS: Student and Faculty

Perspective

The Need for a CMS…

The Need for a CMS…

Static content Decentralized approach bordering on

“Anything Goes”… Nightmarish search attempts Charmingly different look and feel

everywhere Disenfranchised faculty and staff: excluded

from creating and managing learning content

What we need….

A well documented, esthetically designed, comprehensively searchable integrated curriculum to enhance teaching and learning, within a decentralized, user friendly interface for all users.

Common features in CMS’s

Presentation Communication Student Assessment Course Evaluation/Surveys Content authoring Management/Reporting Scheduling/Calendaring Search tools Individualized learning tools

Common features in CMS’s

Content Presentation Lectures- text documents, images, slides,

multimedia, film, links and URL’s

Common features in CMS’s

Communication Asynchronous

discussions/forums Synchronous

discussions- real time chat

Email by individuals, groups

Announcements Polling Video conferencing

Common features in CMS’s

Student Assessment Quiz and exam making

functions A variety of open ended

and multiple choice formats, feedback and implementation options

Automated scoring, item analysis, gradebook, basic statistical analyses

Common features in CMS’s

Evaluation Survey development Evaluation forms,

templates Automated scoring and

reports

Common features in CMS’s

Content authoring Easy-to-use, web based

authoring interface for faculty and staff

Accommodate advanced authoring capabilities

Interoperability Reusability

Common features in CMS’s

Management/Reporting Student registration and

assignments to courses, groups, workshops

Chronological record of performance, attendance, reports, visits to content components, contribution to course

Common features in CMS’s

Scheduling/Calendaring Course calendar Personal Calendar Group calendar Personalized calendar Integration with other

calendaring tools- PDA’s, MS Outlook

Common features in CMS’s

Search tools Search across all

courses by keywords/free text search

Search within courses by keywords

Common features in CMS’s

Individualized learning tools

“My Profile” page Designated storage for

personal files Notetaking, customizing

look and feel, calculator, personal calendar and email, link collection, tasks

E-learning Standards

Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative of US Government is unifying e-learning specifications

Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM)

Reusability, interoperability, accessibility, durability

Outcome: Learning repositories which can be fluidly integrated across different platforms and CMS’s

E-learning Standards: Advantages

Multiple authors can collaboratively create content, without interoperability concerns.

Reduce the cost of content development while improving its quality

Outcome: Learning repositories which can be fluidly integrated across different platforms and CMS’s

ANGEL at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA