Administrators are looking for guidance from those with experience in ed ucational technologies, both in the classroom and in online educational environments. In efforts to meet these rising demands at NC State, academic disciplines have tended to develop practices and policies in isolation, resulting in increased fragmentation and duplication of efforts. There are many committees and services related to new te chnologies that operate unknown to the larger campus community. Experimentation is often handled in a piecemeal fashion, and finding ways for others to benefit from those results has been difficult. Our Goals and Mission The Teaching, Learning and Technology Roundtable seeks to address these needs.
Roundtables are in ope ration on over six hundred campuses nationwide.
The Roundtable is constructed to serve as an advisory council whose purpose is to provide a forum for deliberations on all issues related to educational technologies. These deliberations are geared toward producing both formal recommendations for higher admi nistrators and educational functions for the larger campus. In the fall of 1999, the TLTR became engaged with the Provost's request to determine the best course management software system for adoption by NC State. The Learning Technologies Service arranged for several vendors to demonstrate their products, and the Roundtable members constituted a large number of those who evaluated these systems. The question of open source adoption on campus became a part of those deliberations as well.