The LATTE Project
Project Summary
Over the past decade, an online course management system has become an increasingly critical platform supporting the instructional mission of Brandeis University. In looking toward the future, Library and Technology Services, early in 2007, recommended replacing WebCT with Moodle, a robust, open source, community-supported learning environment. The LATTE (Learning and Teaching Technology Environment) Project introduced Moodle to the Brandeis community, and also served as a springboard to investigate new procedures and learning opportunities to enable faculty to easily employ the capabilities of the Moodle environment to enrich their courses.
The LATTE Project successfully met its goal of offering a Moodle production environment to the Brandeis community on July 31, 2007. Moodle was quickly adopted by the Brandeis community, and became the primary course management system used in the Fall 2007 semester. The Project highlighted the strength to be found in combining the skills and knowledge of the staff of Library and Technology Services.
The new Learning and Teaching Technology Environment (LATTE) will continue to be developed with input from faculty and students. Visit the main LATTE web page (http://latte.brandeis.edu/) for updates.
The LATTE Project Timeline
| LATTE website launched |
April 18, 2007 |
| Faculty workshops begin | April 25, 2007 |
| Course content migration begins |
May 9, 2007 |
| Course template completed | June 15, 2007 |
| LATTE sandbox provided for faculty | May 1, 2007 |
| Launch LATTE Help website | July 20, 2007 |
| Launch LATTE learning environment for community use | August 1, 2007 |
Project Communications
LTS Statement on Course Management Systems
LATTE Project Action Plan
The LATTE Project Steering Committee
Perry Hanson, Vice President and Vice Provost for Libraries and Information Technology
Susan V. Wawrzaszek, Chief University Librarian and Project Manager
Anna Tomecka, Chief Technology Officer
David Wedaman, Associate Director for Research and Instruction Services
Project Teams
Project Administration
Communications & Marketing
Functionality
Course Content Migration
Technology Infrastructure
Training
Support
User Acceptance Testing
Additional Resources
The LATTE FAQ
The LATTE Project FAQ answers basic questions about the transition from WebCT to LATTE.
About Moodle
Library and Technology Services has collected numerous resources on Moodle, the learning environment that will replace WebCT at Brandeis.
Antonenko, P., Toy, S., & Niederhauser, D. (2004, October). Modular object-oriented dynamic learning environment: what open source has to offer. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology, Chicago, IL. (ED494265)
Cole, J., (2005) Using moodle: Teaching with the popular open source course management system. Sebastopol, CA : O’Reilly Community Press.
Corich, S. (2005). Let's get ready to moodle. Bulletin of Applied Computing and Information Technology, 3(3), 1-7.
Dougiamas, M., & Taylor, P.C. (2002) Interpretive analysis of an internet-based course constructed using a new courseware tool called moodle. Proceedings of the Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia (HERDSA) 2002 Conference, Perth, Western Australia.
Contact Us
To learn more about LATTE or to ask for help, please contact us:
Email: latte@brandeis.edu | Phone: x6LTTE (x65883) or 781-736-5883