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Offline Management of Online Courses at Ivy Tech
3/7/2007
“If you’re teaching four courses and two sections, it makes it really easy to manage the content,” says Abu Moniruzzaman, director of academic / networking information technology services at Ivy Tech.
Ventrano says that Ivy Tech has introduced the product to about 50 distance education coordinators and instructors so far, beginning with a beta version last fall; response has been a unanimous plus, he says, and other instructors “are wondering when they can have it.”
ClassTop was launched in mid-2006 in response to research, the company says, that identified low adoption rates among instructors for online learning. It’s sold under a site-wide license; price is based on the number of instructors at the institution and includes volume discounts.
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Linda L. Briggs is a freelance writer based in San Diego, Calif.
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