July 4, 2003

Study of Wisconsin Professors Finds Drawbacks to Course-Management Systems

By DAN CARNEVALE

As course-management systems become staples of college instruction, some students and professors say the software is harder to learn to use than they expected, a survey in the University of Wisconsin System has found.

Professors at many universities say that course-management software helps them organize their courses better and brings new levels of interaction both among students and between students and professors. The Wisconsin study sought to test that hypothesis by asking what

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