Conversion And Delivery Of Courses Via A Course Management System

Higher education institutions attempt to embrace online learning because it is viewed as being technologically current, institutionally profitable or a means of survival. In this endeavour, courses are converted for online delivery within various course management systems (CMS). At a university under review, a number of courses have been implemented in an online environment, but these CMS implementations done, reflect only static displays of presentations and a lot more work needs to be done. We have looked at the implementation of four courses across three faculties, examining various pedagogical dimensions of the courses against the method of delivery and course accessibility. The experiences of the teacher and student suggest that with respect to converting to the online learning environment, various things must be considered in order to exploit more of the online possibilities. The research findings may be helpful for teachers implementing courses within a course management system.