Sent to Wes Miller, Tom Steffes with CC: to Rowan Littel at 4:02pm:
I got this reply today from Hannah Reeves in the Learning Technology Center in the Media Union at University Michigan. (Joseph Hardin gave an excellent presentation about CHEF to the MITC conference in February.
From the message it looks like we could use the CHEF system on a pilot basis with a course or two in the Fall. I am keen to work with one or two faculty in doing this - I would volunteer my own course, management 110, but I am already planning to use Blog and CPR.
Could we make use of CPC General Education funds to stage a two/three day workshop where faculty could learn to use the CHEF system and figure how they would use it in a Gen Ed class in the Fall? Then we could propose a MITC sponsored workshop at Earlham over the Christmas break that looked at Open Source and commercial Course Management Systems and the experience of faculty users and tech support. I would certainly be prepared to make a proposal to CPC.
Mark