29 January 2007

How to archive courses on your VLE

Through a mailinglist I am subcribed to (I really don't recall which one, anymore), I was directed to a great paper, published in November 2002 (!). The paper discusses the issues that we all have: what to do with 'old' courses on our course management system (or LMS or VLE).

The author, Clifford Lynch, who is Executive director of the Coalition of Networked Information (www.cni.org), argues that this is essentially an information management issue. He proposes to deal with this in that matter and comes up with some interesting steps to take.

I know that at our institution this issue was not really dealt with on this level..... We just, in a very pragmatic way, have decided that we keep 'courses' on our production system for 2 academic years. After that they are archived, which means that only teaching staff and faculty have (read-only) access. Students don't have any privileges on this archive. It seems to work OK.

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