Using CMS data to examine teaching effectiveness
This week's tip is an interesting article exploring how faculty at Rochester Institute of Technology mined their course management system (CMS) to gather information about faculty-student interactions. Specifically, they looked at interactivity - as demonstrated through online postings, e-mail traffic, etc. - to help identify "heavy hitting" professors who interact with their students a great deal. While we in the Libraries are not as involved with CMS, the lesson about interactivity - and its relation to student course evaluation - is an interesting one:
http://www.magnapubs.com/issues/magnapubs_ff/5_4/news/601397-1.html?s=FF&p=MFCFEZ