What do CMS/LMS Cost:
Maybe we’re assessing the overall costs incorrectly?
After reading Carmean and Brown’s (2005) article, “Measure for Measure: Assessing course management systems” in last week’s reading, I was intrigued with the overall cost breakdown and effectiveness of Course Management Systems (CMSs) and Learning Management Systems (LMSs). Carmean and Brown weigh the overall cost and effectiveness of active learning through a CMS platform; questioning a CMSs ability to improve pedagogical structure and delivery while providing an active learning environment. They argue that large corporations or institutions would not invest in such a large and costly system without verification and evidence of its overall benefit to the bottom line of the institution. They evaluate the effectiveness of the CMS based on a Return of Investment (ROI) philosophy, which may work in a corporate setting, but is ineffective in the educational setting. The actual use of a CMS or LMS is to provide support to the active learning environment, not create actual pedagogical philosophies. In the article, “Course Management Systems versus Learning Management Systems,” Carliner states:
@ Stace
I thought the most important part of your blog this time was the finding of the Blackboard article on measuring the impact without using ROI. Now that I have had a taste of the corporate world for almost a year, I had no idea how important ROI was and more so how organizations actually base all their decisions on it. Obviously with learning it is difficult to quantify that with dollars and cents so it was nice to see a different approach. You did a great job of combining the three articles with your own thoughts and I appreciate how succinct you summarize
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