E-Conferencing and Beyond - Providing Seamless Access to Technology Larry Green Michelle Pilati

Your presenters Representing the California Virtual Campus MERLOT “Fellows” Larry Michelle

The Plan - Modified What features would the perfect course management system have? This session will provide an overview of new and planned enhancements to the ETUDES course management system, an extension of the SAKAI project. A fully integrated e-conferencing system will be demonstrated discussed and plans for integration MERLOT and a federated search feature will be discussed.

What is E-Conferencing Synchronized Visual communication tool One on one or one on many Instructor controlled Delegation possible

Pros and Cons of E-Conferencing Visual communication Regular online class impersonal Compromise between face to face and online. Technical difficulties Firewalls Access Scheduling issues

Etudes and E-Conferencing How have you used e-conferencing? How would you use e-conferencing? What would you like to see in your dream e-conferencing tool?

ETUDES and Federated Searching Compliments of Wikipedia – “Federated search is the simultaneous search of multiple online databases and is an emerging feature of automated, Web-based library and information retrieval systems. It is also often referred to as a portal, as opposed to simply a Web-based search engine.”

Why search within a CMS? Allow for ready access to LO’s. But that’s only the beginning – what would you want the search to do? Where? What? How? Why?

Why search within a CMS? Goal is seamless integration. Searching MERLOT and beyond. What search parameters are a must? What would be ideal?

The CMS of Tomorrow What does the ideal CMS consist of?