Documentation:Learning Environment/What do we Fear

What do We Fear

Technology:

• Unsustainablity
• Meeting all needs
• Change in technology
• Being locked into a system that is not flexible

Resources/Implementation

• Focus only on efficiency
• Commitment not there
• Resources for implementation
• Big idea but no support/buy in
• Change (people)
• Being driven by fiscal constraints vs teaching and learning practices/requirements

Content/Production

• Adaptive learning (also a hope)
• Ownership
• Publisher domination
• Content rights management
• Growth of publishers proprietary system

Student/Faculty

• Students not happy with the solution
• Collective agreement
• Student/faculty not buying in
• Inertia (OLFM & Faculty)
• Policy/privacy concerns
• Instructor constrains by the environment
• Student data FOI /POP

OL Production Team

• Closed system which is difficult to get large quantities of content into and very difficult to get content out in usable form
• Loose control over certain processes and with it remove any challenges (be asked to do the most mundane work)
• Very manual system with limited ability to have efficiency tools
• Not being able to retain students (frustration, dislike of new system).
• That a change wouldn’t be necessarily beneficial:
• Possibly hindering current learning styles and approaches for something new.
• Isolating a certain or current demographic by trying to reach a new one.
• Losing a useful feature or a certain functionality that students really like.
• Lack of support (or know how) from mandatory services such as IT.
• Certain courses may need to be drastically modified when switching from one LMS to another (ie. ones that rely heavily on tools available only in Blackboard).
• OLFM’s familiar with Blackboard may require significant additional support getting used to a new LMS.
• We may encounter unfamiliar issues that we do not know firsthand how to handle.
• Blackboard specific references may be overlooked when moving courses into a new LMS, causing confusion for students.
• Moving courses will be slow and tedious
• LMS will not be easy to learn, will not be intuitive
• Will not have adequate functionality to meet OLs needs
• Courses will be difficult to maintain
• LMS will be forced on us even if it is not accepted by the departments(s)