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

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

3. 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.

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

5. 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

6. 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?

7. 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.”

8. 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?

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

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