OCDE CMS Task Force
(Ohio Commons for Digital Education, Course Management Systems)



This page includes: working papers of the OCDE CMS Task Force; background papers about the OCDE; and sources on course management systems, their selection and interoperability.

  1. Ohio Commons for Digital Education -- early papers
    1. Ohio Commons concept paper (Sanville to Carey/Stutz)
    2. Ohio Commons concept (Sanville to OhioLINK Governing Board)
    3. Ohio Commons working paper


  2. Background for the CMS Task Force
    1. Next Generation CMS (Educause)
    2. Learning Spaces (Educause)
    3. CMS Issues (Mark Cain)
    4. OLN Courseware Strategies report of November 2000.


  3. CMS Task Force papers
    1. Charge and membership
    2. March 10, 2003, Agenda
    3. March 10, 2003, Meeting Notes
    4. March 10, 2003, Action Plans
    5. April 8, 2003, Agenda
    6. May 12, 2003, Agenda
    7. Final Report, May 19, 2003


  4. Related resources / Interoperability / Open Source Options
    1. Distributed Learning Workshop
    2. OKI - Open Knowledge Initiative -- An open-source foundation for building learning tools.
    3. CMS selection and the Open Knowledge Initiative (Scott E. Siddall)
    4. ADLNET Advanced Distributed Learning -- A collaboration for the interoperability of learning tools.
    5. SCORM -- Sharable Content Object Reference Model -- Specifications to enable interoperability of Web-based learning content.
    6. Another SCORM site
    7. The Centre for Educational Technology Interoperability Standards
    8. IMS Global Learning Consortium -- Another alliance working on interoperability of learning technologies.
    9. Open Source Courseware -- Evaluation and Rating


  5. Course management systems -- Selection
    1. EDUTOOLS course management page -- An inventory of course management products and features.
    2. OSU's CMS evaluation site
    3. OLN resources on course management systems


  6. Course management systems -- Products
    1. Stanford's CourseWork CMS
    2. Univ of Michigan's CHEF project
    3. desire2learn
    4. Blackboard
    5. OLN's Blackboard page
    6. WebCT
    7. OLN's WebCT page


  7. Course management systems and the library
    1. Course-Management Software: Where's the Library?
    2. Interoperability between Information and Learning Environments – Bridging the Gaps an IMS/CNI White Paper.
    3. Integrating the Library into Next-Generation Course Management Systems
    4. Libraries and E-Learning: Organisational and Technical Interoperability
    5. Academic Libraries and Course Management Software
    6. New Allies in the Fight Against Research by Googling: Faculty members and librarians slowly start to work together on courseware.


  8. Organizations that have started the OCDE
    1. OLN
    2. OhioLINK
    3. OARnet
    4. Ohio Supercomputer Center
Last updated: June 1, 2005

Tom Klingler