Dean Adams was given notice to develop an online program with the School of Business Administration as a prototype of online education for the rest of the University. A major task which faced the Dean involved working with University information technology (IT) staff and faculty to choose a learning management system (LMS) to support the online program. After talking with the Chief Information Officer at Seacoast University and appointing a committee made up of IT staff and faculty, the Dean was presented with the committee's recommendation that focussed on two major decisions: first, choosing the LMS product for the University, and second, choosing to locate the LMS product and server either on-campus or off-campus. In the course of considering whether or not to accept the committee's recommendations, Dean Adams weighed the evaluations and justifications as outlined by the committee in the context of Seacoast University's IT situation.
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Franklin R. Morris, Jr is an Associate Professor of Information Technology based at the School of Business Administration/The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, USA.
John E. Timmerman is a Professor of Marketing based at the School of Business Administration/The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, USA.
Al S. Lovvorn is an Associate Professor of Strategic Management based at the School of Business Administration/The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, USA.
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Morris FR, Timmerman JE, Lovvorn AS (2014), "Seacoast University: the IT factor in moving online". The CASE Journal, Vol. 10 No. 1 pp. 3–11, doi: https://doi.org/10.1108/TCJ-01-2014-0008
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