Keeping Up With Moore’s Law 1 Keeping Up With Moore’s Law: Course Management Panel Robert Cartolano Manager, Academic Technologies, Academic Information Systems Columbia University,

Keeping Up With Moore’s Law 2 Background Prometheus - Commercial, community source, open database running on Oracle; also used at Teacher’s College and Columbia Business School. Over 20,000 users, 2,500 courses per year Common Login ID (same as ) Secure web servers, Kerberos login Registrar, HR data feed for faculty, student, course information Integrated Library Reserves (Voyager)

Keeping Up With Moore’s Law 3 Rollout Challenges Extensive campus communications –Partnership between Academic Computing, Center for New Media Teaching and Learning, Libraries, Registrar, schools and departments. –Open and transparent planning for entire campus New feature development to support administrators as well as faculty. Mass migration of course materials

Keeping Up With Moore’s Law 4 Current Status CourseWorks is stable, widely-used Local customization was crucial to product acceptance and success Meets diverse needs among many schools (Dental, Nursing, Social Work, Engineering, etc.) Long list of requested new or improved features, ranging from facebook to digital repository support.

Keeping Up With Moore’s Law 5 Next Challenges Prometheus is end-of-life product Need to select a New System –Must be open source, open database, extensible, unrestricted –Must offer significant new features that meet our requirements and provide a migration path off of Prometheus. –Community support as well as commercial support for development and sharing of learning and administrative tools –Must scale to 30,000 users, and meet user expectations over the next 5 years and beyond. Transition Planning –Extensive campus communications and feedback –Technology planning, resource and staff planning

Keeping Up With Moore’s Law 6 Sakai Project MIT, Indiana U., U.Mich, Stanford U. are core institutions. Mellon and Hewlett funded. Sakai has potential to meet many of our requirements, in a community source model. Is it right for Columbia? We are gearing up for an extensive evaluation and assessment effort. Columbia joined as a Partner (SEPP) along with over 40 peer institutions, attended developer’s conference in June Version 1.0 released.

Keeping Up With Moore’s Law 7 Summary Course management systems today are robust, dynamic systems catering to diverse academic audiences, with an ever growing need for tools and features. More effort is needed to adapt technology to meet curricular needs. –Collaboration is needed