As I read through the materials for the “CMS and LMS” unit of this course, one idea that stood out to me was that students have a “preference to stay inside their own domain (for example WebCT). Students are reluctant to leave their course environment even to access important information and their learning is contextual.” (Lynn Copeland, “There Be Dragons,” p. 203). This statement was reiterated in the article “Linking Students to Library Resources through the Learning Management System:” “Students are course-centric in their work and library resources need to be presented to them in that context in a convenient place” (466). As a student, I definitely agree that having everything you need to complete a course in one place is an ideal situation, and was excited to read about the work being done at Ohio State University to integrate library services into the institution’s LMS.
After reading about the OSU program, I wonder: How many other schools have programs like this? How much money/resources did it really take for OSU to get this program running (the article mentions the use of grant money several times), and how feasible is it for smaller schools to start up a program like this? Finally, would it be feasible for OSU to somehow package and provide their system to other academic libraries/IT departments, hopefully for less money that it would take for other schools to start from scratch?
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