Course Construction Toolbox or Trap? Course Management Systems and Pedagogy

Shortly put, Lisa M. Lane decries the limitations of course manegement systems: "The default design of commercial course management systems limits instructional creativity and pedagogical approaches, particularly for novice users . . . If we were building something tangible out of wood or metal, for instance, it would be silly let the tools in our toolbox determine what we construct and how we construct it. I wouldn't set out to build a Victorian dollhouse and switch to a modernist garden bench because I couldn't find the scroll saw. And yet this type of shift often happens when faculty encounter a CMS."