Outsourcing CMS in Iowa

Iowa community college online consortium (iccoc), set up seven community colleges, the study is to use outsourcing management system to provide online courses to students all Iowa. Learning management system, ecollege, is designed specifically for the management of e-learning courses, and contribute to curriculum development and management much easier for colleges and universities within the consortium.ecollege 7 learning management system different from the products, such as blackboard or webct, Because it is provided as outsourcing services. This means that colleges and universities not to buy and install the products on their own computers, but their permission to use ecollege from the company, the company maintained long-distance application on its own servers. This will allow schools to avoid the heavy pre-capital costs and increase the cost of technical support staff, since ecollege handle all support issues. The company said, ecollege is from the local operation of the computer in various locations to ensure rapid and sustained services, and includes multiple levels of redundancy, backup, and so far has been to the database infrastructure. ecollege also a special focus on long-distance education market, mainly in tertiary institutions, services and non-traditional students. The company provides other services, along with its learning management system, such as technical advice, training, teachers and the support of every college course development.by allowed to provide online courses to any student enrolled in the University belong to the consortium, iccoc increase in the number of students may Any one interested, of course, members of the rural community colleges to provide courses, they will not be able to fill, or else. It also make the best use of mentors, who can teach, of course, no matter where they are located in the state.through ecollege, students registered in any consortium of seven colleges and universities can choose from a range of courses provided by the Member colleges and universities. Online classes, features streaming audio and video synchronized presentation slides provided over the Internet, in the daytime, at night, or even the weekend. The iccoc was established in 1999, pooling the resources and community colleges to provide online educational opportunities to Iowa students. Seven member schools provide a comprehensive range of on-line for a two-year associate degree school students registered through the consortium must be registered in one of seven colleges.

When iccoc first started using e-learning platforms, ecollege provide a number of training courses, over the course of a semester, to the consortium members, so that they start. The participants then received an e-teaching certificate attesting to their train or teach online. The preliminary certificate of Henry-who is now the system designer in Iowa lakes Community College (ilcc). She is the first to teach courses on-line ilcc through the new system, which is starting in 2000. Mr Tang said the advent of, ecollege to the establishment of online courses much easier. Set up an online course, in the days before the ecollege, she will work with technical experts were not necessary HTML programming, while she was teaching design and content experts. And ecollege, she said, "It, therefore, much easier, now in the process of development, they have a good e-learning platforms and creative tools, we can use."