Content Management Systems: Enabling E- Teaching and Learning Anju Relan and Sally Krasne David 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…

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 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 , 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