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+title: 'IR 11.1.2'
+date: '2010-10-21T03:45:49-04:00'
+permalink: /ir-11-1-2/
+tags:
+    - conferences
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+Session 2: CMS Futures: The Way Ahead for Course Management Systems  
+Alex Halavais, Jeremy Hunsinger, Ted Coopman, Helen Keegan
+
+— trying to avoid just bitching about Blackboard  
+— certain benefits of a well-designed CMS: standardization of experience; modularization  
+— but the CMS tends to stifle innovation  
+— plus awful terms: both LMS and CMS, ugh  
+— what are we telling students to learn when we ask them to use an LMS? Because they do learn from those interfaces; if that’s not what we want them to learn, how do we get them an interface that they can learn from?  
+— the front pedagogy versus the buried pedagogy; what are we teaching students that we don’t recognize?  
+— benefits of students doing work in public  
+— inadequate training for future faculty in using learning management systems, and inadequate support for experimentation, esp for faculty with high teaching loads  
+— at most institutions, we’re teaching to an assumed student population (18-22 yr olds in school full time) that doesn’t exist  
+— what kinds of literacies do we need to teach students in order for them to do the kinds of work we want them to do?  
+— in what ways might we employ peer assessment in our classes? (esp with blog posts, where there are too many to read and respond to?  
+— VLE: virtual learning environment; how different?  
+— undergrad research experiences; how to manage with more than 15 students?  
+— future of CMS: personal learning environment? VLE with a small degree of openness?
+