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Sunday, June 09, 2002
http://www.syllabus.com/syllabusmagazine/article.asp?id=6389 The Interactive Campus: Administrative and Course Management System Vendors Take Up the Challenge Emerging media and highly interactive technologies raise the bar for the development efforts vendors must make to remain current in a growing eLearning environment. Possibilities for improved user interaction with both academic information and administrative data, plus expectations for more integrated systems, contribute to a blurring of the lines between administrative and course management systems. Several types of companies involved with eLearning products or infrastructure work in the eLearning space, and product categories are not as clear-cut as they once were. The eLearning landscape is changing in response to interest in portals, Web-based or Web-enabled systems, and a gradual but general evolution in academic institutions towards life-long learning. What kinds of interactive technologies interest vendors most, and what technology directions and market influences are they considering as they plan for the future? To find out, Syllabus polled technology leaders at key companies.
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