Learning Management Systems for multi-disciplinary teaching

Srinivas Chemboli runs the Varietas Multidisciplinary Teaching Interest Group at the Australian National Unviersity in Canberra. This week's meeting is on learning management systems (LMSs) for multi-disciplinary teaching (all welcome):

The Varietas TiG will meet today at 11:30 at N329, CSIT Building [Bldg 108]

Agenda

• LMS needs for multi-disciplinary and disciplinary teaching/research/collaboration
• What should a wish-list for a LMS comprise of?
• Document creation/management tools
• Focus on function and goals, not specific technologies
• Communicate/discuss the proposed draft outline for group activities via LMS
• Support for logically ordered communication
• Calendaring/meeting-manager support
• Support for blended/flexible learning
• Set up a time-frame/agree upon an action-plan to draft the needs statements for an LMS
• Assess existing LMS options in the context of the needs statements
• Integrating cross-disciplinary strengths in teaching
• The logistics of a cross-disciplinary group course