Comments on: What Platform Do You Use for (Pure) Distance Learning? http://mfeldstein.com/what_platform_do_you_use_for_pure_distance_learning/ What Michael Feldstein Is Learning About Online Learning...Online Sun, 06 Jul 2008 20:21:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: Joe http://mfeldstein.com/what_platform_do_you_use_for_pure_distance_learning/#comment-216 Fri, 19 Aug 2005 20:21:43 +0000 http://mfeldstein.com/what_platform_do_you_use_for_pure_distance_learning/#comment-216 At CUNY's Borough of Manhattan Community College we're running about 37 sections of "pure" DL this fall (30 students maximum per section, with some students in more than one section, of course). We're using Blackboard, not by any choice of our own, but because that's the CUNY centralized decision--for all 17 campuses. There are some campuses where a small minority (very few) of DL courses use another LMS, but that number is vanishingly small. At BMCC, though, we have far more web-enhanced courses (over 100 sections) and all of those are using Bboard, too. I think this pattern is also repeated at all the campuses of CUNY. The central decision and central contract has made Bboard nearly ubiquitous, with only a miniscule number of sections, either DL or web-enhanced, using any other (or no) LMS. At CUNY’s Borough of Manhattan Community College we’re running about 37 sections of “pure” DL this fall (30 students maximum per section, with some students in more than one section, of course).

We’re using Blackboard, not by any choice of our own, but because that’s the CUNY centralized decision–for all 17 campuses. There are some campuses where a small minority (very few) of DL courses use another LMS, but that number is vanishingly small.

At BMCC, though, we have far more web-enhanced courses (over 100 sections) and all of those are using Bboard, too. I think this pattern is also repeated at all the campuses of CUNY. The central decision and central contract has made Bboard nearly ubiquitous, with only a miniscule number of sections, either DL or web-enhanced, using any other (or no) LMS.

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