Comments on: Draft of survey

By: Fear, Ease, and LMS | the month of June

Fear, Ease, and LMS | the month of June — Thu, 14 May 2009 12:09:32 +0000

[...] his loosely held belief about why educators tend to use course-in-a-box software with stats from my research study conducted last year. Yes, two of the top reasons are fear, and let’s say, “ease” [...]

By: Joël

Joël — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 09:05:00 +0000

How about adding another popular open source learning management system to your question “What Course Management Software (CMS) do you use?”
OLAT: http://www.olat.org

(Never heard about Angel…?)

By: VTmtngrrl

VTmtngrrl — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 01:58:00 +0000

Yes!! Thank you!! I knew it could be helpful to post this draft. As we all know, it is so easy to overlook things when they are so close to you.

I definitely want to differentiate between tenure-track and tenured faculty. I can't believe I completely spaced-out on that one.

And, you're right, there should be an "I don't know" option -- especially because my hunch is exactly that -- that they don't know.

thanks again!

By: kmiddleton

kmiddleton — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 21:59:00 +0000

whew, this looks like hard work! Bravo! Is it acceptable to make two teensy suggestions? (I'm gonna, but you don't have to take them...)

On question about employment status, do you want to differentiate between tenured faculty and tenure-track faculty? That's actually two questions in one: you might get some interesting data by sorting the tenured from the non-tenured. The other way would simply be to use the term "tenure track" which feels slightly different than "tenured."

Second, when you ask the big money question: I wonder how many faculty KNOW how much their school's CMS costs. could there be an "I don't know" option?

Just two more cents to add to your million dollar work!