Criteria of Selection
Two factors:
Ease and flow. Cost. You should add Moodle to LMS possibilties.
Dr. L
1. User friendliness
2. Technical support
Ed,
Thanks for the return reply Ed. You may want to talk to your account representative about the support turn around time. Account reps generally don't like their customers to be frustrated and the support issue is one they can usually influence.
Dr. Robert Roehrich
We have choosen Blackboard collaborate,it has provided us with all the functions our instructors like to use to deliver their courses and is pretty easy for the user/student. The turn around time for support can be frustrating at times but I understand no solution will be perfect.
Ed,
Which LMS have you settled on? Has it provided you with the level of support you were seeking?
Dr. Robert Roehrich
Going in to a LMS, ease of use and cost were the two most crucial factors to consider.As our online enrollment grew the two most important factors became support and functionality as we have added courses that call for tools and lab environments that call for more bandwidth and third party tools.We have run pilots on many LMS platforms but the ability to get a quick response or resolution to technical issues are the most challenging.
What do you consider to be the two most important selection criteria for choosing a course management system at your institution?
Not only adult students, but students who chose not to engage in learning in high school and beyond, face the need for content to be accessible
There are three criteria for the selection:
1. funcionality: to work for the instructors and for the students in an easy way.
2. maintenance: no long time needed for repair, or upgrades that discontinue the service.
3. Price.
I believe the two important criteria are can the LMS do what we need it to do at our institution and the cost.
I agree on that,definitely our students need to be more familiar with these terminology and technology terms,overall if they are part of adult education system...
For a better and most efficient teaching/learning process in the subject.
The two most important selection criteria for choosing a course management system are:
1- the cost choice
2- the service delivery
Tim,
Since we are a small institution with a tight budget, I concur with your assessment on the two criteria for selection--functionality and cost.
To many options for untrained eye to choose from. I want to avoid jumping from one to the next. I'm just going to dive into Moodle and see what happens. Unless someone can intervene and let me know if this is a bad idea. Thanks!
Flexibility and adaptability
The two most important aspects must be:
An invitational environment
An easy to use
I would say cost is certainly a primary concern. Ease of functionality and IT support are critical as well.
The two most important issues are functionality and cost.
A course management system has to be friendly for teachers and students, allows that the activities for classes, practice and tests run properly, and also permits that students and teacher can monitor the progress during the course. If it also allows the teacher - student interaction, is much better.
At the same time, the cost has to be affordable for the institution and, of course in a range that allows that the tuition of the students don't increase too much that cause the lack of competitiviness.
