Web Courseware Comparisons and Studies
Edutools Course Management Systems by Dr. Bruce Landon of Douglas College, was "built to assist higher education in using a more rational decision making process to review the many options for a course management system.
This site reviews each product by researching and describing more than 50 product features."
http://www.edutools.info/course/
WebEd Online Tools Reviews and Comparisons
a rather extensive list (much more than this one!) of links of tool comparisons from other organizations
http://www.osc.edu/education/webed/Tools/review.shtml
VLE (Virtual Learning Environment) Comparison Grid
A comparison of five popular VLE products (Blackboard, learning environment , LearnWise, Virtual Campus, and WebCT Campus Edition Pilot conducted by a UK Higher Ed group, CHEST (Combined Higher Education Software Team). Grid information has been provided by the VLE suppliers themselves, and is posted unedited.
http://www.chest.ac.uk/datasets/vle/
Online Course Management Platform Comparison a feature by feature comparison from SiteTrainer.
http://www.sitetrainer.com/platformcomparison.htm
Evaluation and Selection of Web Course Management Tools by Dr. Sunil Hazari describes the process, criteria, and results done by the University of Maryland as they compared BlackBoard CourseInfo, Web Course-in-a-box, Lotus LearningSpace, TopClass, WebCT, and WebMentor.
http://sunil.umd.edu/webct/
Tools for Developing Interactive Academic Web Courses by (Jean-Paul) Simbandumwe, University of Manitoba, is an excellent analysis of four systems for creating instructional web sites
http://www.umanitoba.ca/ip/tools/courseware/
Evaluation of Web-based Course Management Software from Faculty and Student User -Centered Perspectives a study by ther US Airforce Academy, "The objective of this study was to evaluate the usability and usefulness of course management software to support traditional classroom
instruction from both the faculty and student perspective. This study was done in two parts, the first part asked participants with no experience
using course management software to evaluate several packages and choose the one they preferred, and the second part was a follow-up analysis
after both faculty and students had used the software for an entire semester."
http://www.usafa.af.mil/iita/Publications/CourseManagementSoftware/cmseval.htm
BU WebCentral Research: Courseware Comparison was Boston University's project to compare the features and specific functionalities of Blackboard 5.0 WebCT 3.5 and Prometheus 4.1
http://software2.bu.edu/webcentral/research/courseware/
Demystifying Learning Management Systems a presentation by Fred M. Beshears, University of California- Berkeley that includes "Overview of Learning Management Systems", Do It Yourself -vs- Web-based LMS", and "WebCT and CourseInfo Comparison"
http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~fmb/articles/demystifyinglms/
New tools help instructors create and maintain course websites describes why UC Berkely chose WebCt over TopClass, Web Course in a Box, and CourseInfo.
http://socrates.berkeley.edu:7521/articles/webct/NewToolsToHelpInstructors.html
Building a Web-based Education System David Jones and Colin McCormack of Central Queensland University, Australia, are in the process of compiling information for a book they're writing on Web-based teaching that includes input on the experiences of users of WebCT, WebFuse and TopClass.
http://webclass.cqu.edu.au//index.txt.html
Computer-based training on the Web from the August 18 1997 issue of PC Week, describes a comprehensive comparison between TopClass, Lotus LearningSpace, Macromedia Authorware 4. Allen Communication Inc.'s QuestNet+, Asymetrix ToolBook II, and Pathlore Software Corp.'s Phoenix for Windows.
http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/reviews/0818/18ibt.html
The Design, Development and Delivery of Internet Based Training and Education The purpose of this report is to assist in narrowing the selection choices for a web-based learning environment.
http://teleeducation.nb.ca/content/media/03.2000/ddd-ibte/index.html
Comparing software for online teaching is Murdoch University's experiences in evaluating a number of software tools designed to support online teaching and learning.
http://cleo.murdoch.edu.au/teach/guide/res/examples/course-servers.html
Integrated Applications is University of British Columbia's Department of Distance Education and Technology comparison of FirstClass, TopClass and WebCT
http://demo.cstudies.ubc.ca/integrated.html
Webifying Courses: Online Education Platforms an article in the April 2000 issue of Converge Magazine that reviews the important issues in selecting a web course management system.
http://www.convergemag.com/Publications/CNVGApr00/
OnlineCourses/HighEdAdOnlineCourses.shtm
Web-based Course Services: Which Should I Use? from the University of Iowa, which supports both Blackboard, WebCT, and "free-form" Web space for their course material. This site provides a general feature comparison to help you decide.
http://courses.uiowa.edu/comparison/index.html
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