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Student Presentation (No formal paper)

**Online Resource Repository for Training Faculty in Laulima : An Organization and Collaboration of Resources, course management system, professional development, self-paced learning**
//Rashmi Chhetri, Graduate Student, Educational Technology, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, USA,// rashmi@hawaii.edu

Course Management System (CMS) has become one of the most popular technologies in teaching and learning today. Although seen as a useful tool for distance learning it has rapidly gained popularity in the traditional learning environment. It aids in building extensive communication both synchronous and asynchronous through in-built tools and also provides learner assessment. University of Hawaii System has recently adopted an open source CMS Sakai Project and created a customized version for the University called Laulima. Many colleges in the University have individually developed several resources and employed staff to support faculty development and professional development especially the integration of technology into curriculum but inspite of the various forms of support, faculty members both new and old are struggling in the use of the tools within Laulima to incorporate in teaching and learning. Is it the way the resources are scattered and difficult to find or is it the difficulty in accessibility to the resources or is it because they want a resource that is available to them anytime anywhere they need or do they need a long-term support so that they can take their own time to go through the resources and materials after the introductory workshops and later. Online resources have been pointed out as a key self-paced professional development tool. So the purpose of this project is to design and develop an online resource repository for Laulima tutorials that will act as a central online repository for Laulima resources from all the colleges within the University. Faculty throughout the University of Hawaii System will have access to the repository through the course management system Laulima and specified staff editors from the various participating colleges will be able to edit and upload updated files and tutorials on Laulima. End users of the online resource repository as well as the editors will evaluate the design and content of the online resource repository.

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