{"id":37,"date":"2006-08-22T22:21:25","date_gmt":"2006-08-22T22:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.the-wests.net\/rick\/?p=37"},"modified":"2006-08-22T22:21:25","modified_gmt":"2006-08-22T22:21:25","slug":"more-on-cms-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.byuipt.net\/rickwest\/2006\/08\/22\/more-on-cms-research\/","title":{"rendered":"More on CMS research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So last week <a href=\"http:\/\/rickwest.edublogs.org\/2006\/08\/19\/cms-technologies-a-missing-literature-gap\/\">I lamented the lack of research <\/a>being done about one of the most widely implemented distance learning technologies, the course management system, and then today I opened up my AERA reviewer&#8217;s box and found two proposals related to CMSs for me to review.<\/p>\n<p>I was elated! The titles were catchy, and it seemed we might be getting somewhere. Then I read the proposals.<\/p>\n<p>One was a five-interview study on faculty perceptions of switching from one CMS to another. Like most research on CMSs, this was a diminutive study, tenuously supported by theory and not very generalizable in its implications. The other proposal ended up not being about research at all, but was a proposed roundtable to teach attendees about different CMS technologies. While it seemed like the author is knowledgeable and might teach a good workshop, as a research paper proposal, it fell short.<\/p>\n<p>So in the end reviewing these proposals only strengthened my belief that we really haven&#8217;t effectively studied the impacts from implementing CMS technologies yet.\n<\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags begin --><\/p>\n<p>technorati tags:<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/AECT2006\" rel=\"tag\">AECT2006<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/BlogTracks\" rel=\"tag\">BlogTracks<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/BlogTrack\" rel=\"tag\">BlogTrack<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/CMS\" rel=\"tag\">CMS<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/distance\" rel=\"tag\">distance<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/learning\" rel=\"tag\">learning<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/research\" rel=\"tag\">research<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/literature\" rel=\"tag\">literature<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags end --><\/p>\n<p>Blogged with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flock.com\" title=\"Flock\" target=\"_new\">Flock<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So last week I lamented the lack of research being done about one of the most widely implemented distance learning technologies, the course management system, and then today I opened up my AERA reviewer&#8217;s box and found two proposals related to CMSs for me to review. I was elated! The titles were catchy, and it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-37","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-blogtracks","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.byuipt.net\/rickwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.byuipt.net\/rickwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.byuipt.net\/rickwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.byuipt.net\/rickwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.byuipt.net\/rickwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.byuipt.net\/rickwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.byuipt.net\/rickwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.byuipt.net\/rickwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.byuipt.net\/rickwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}