Without any research, I can confidently say that most professors at McMaster University put course material online. The problem is, there are a whole slew of options they have for doing this. For example, Virtual Learning Environments. There are at least 4 that are actively used at Mac: WebCT, Moodle, Blackboard, LearnLink. If profs either don't like any of these options, or don't know about them, they can just use ordinary webspace.
Is there a way to standardize the way prof's post online course material? Would it even be completely necessary?
There is one obvious issue. It's a pain in the ass to manage all of these different sources of information, but is it worth spending so much time/effort/money on this problem that can potentially never be solved?
Prof. Rockwell discusses the issue of tenure status. In the simplest of terms, the University can't tell prof's what to do. Maybe what we need is to come up with a form of incentive to get prof's to use one standardized VLE.
Any ideas?
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My best idea is that students need to imagine ways of helping and training profs. Major changes to the culture of the academy are difficult.
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