Course Management Systems V.S. Online Instructors’ Needs

Demei Shen; I-Chun Tsai; Ching-Hua Wu

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2005 (October 2005) pp. 2389–2393

Abstract. Online education has become an increasingly pervasive modality in university instruction and learning. Much research has been done on the review of the course management systems, such as Blackboard and WebCT, also much has been done on the ...

Social Nature of Online Learning in Sakai

Social Computing Research Group; Xinxin Huang; Christiana Kumalasari; Piyanan Nuankhieo; Demei Shen; Bosung Kim; I-Chun Tsai; Pei-Ju Liu; Paul Turner; Chris Amelung; David Reid; James Laffey

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2006 (June 2006) pp. 613–620

This study explored the social nature of online learning in a computer management system (CMS). Based on Wenger's (1998) social theory of learning and an awareness framework for online collaborative learning proposed by Carroll et al, (2003), a four-...

Topics: Social Sciences, Information Sciences, Computer Sciences, Learning Management Systems, Social Studies