Curriculum management systems & database - Build, Buy or Borrow?

James B. McGee, MD, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Break-out Topics Include:

¨ What experience does the audience have with commercial and home-grown computer based curriculum databases and content management systems? CurrMITT? Blackboard/WebCT?

¨ What are the REAL all-in costs of establishing and supporting a web-based curriculum database & content management system? If you buy one? If you make one?

¨ What are positive and negative educational consequences for faculty and students when the curriculum is "managed" using technology?

¨ What can one do with a computer-based curriculum that cannot be done without technology?

¨ What kind of INNOVATIVE uses of technology to manage a health sciences curriculum can the audience imagine?

James B. McGee, MD

205B Mezzanine Level, Scaife Hall

3550 Terrace Street

Pittsburgh, PA 15261

Phone: 412-648-9679

Fax: 412-648-9378

jbmcgee@medschool.pitt.edu

http://labedutech.medschool.pitt.edu