Piecemeal adoption of methods of online educational delivery can duplicate effort and waste an institution’s resources. Early enthusiasm for online delivery of courses soon fades without strategic initiatives on the institution's part. In August 1999 a Web Educational Development Advisor was appointed at JCU to research and evaluate systems for online teaching and learning, with a view to integrating the selected system university wide. That research and evaluation is the subject of this paper.
The paper concludes with a set of ten recommendations for the adoption of an online system, beginning with the recommendation for specific software (Blackboard CourseInfo and Enterprise Edition) and progressing to strategies for full implementation. The project report and its recommendations will be of interest to other institutions engaged in a similar exercise.
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