What are LMSs:

Jacobs, Dr. Sarah Ruth, “Online Education: Emerging Trends in University Learning Management Systems” (HigherEdJobs, August 7, 2023) downloaded Dec. 10 2023 https://www.higheredjobs.com/Articles/articleDisplay.cfm?ID=3570&Title=Online%20Education%3A%20Emerging%20Trends%20in%20University%20Learning%20Management%20Systems

Global Market Insights. “Learning Management System (LMS) Market.” (summary). July 2023. https://www.gminsights.com/industry-analysis/learning-management-system-lms-market

Brightspace vs Blackboard:
Standard Privacy Report for Brightspace https://privacy.commonsense.org/privacy-report/Brightspace

Yamani HA, Alharthi AD, Lassaad KS. Evaluation of learning management systems: A comparative study between blackboard and brightspace. International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (Online). 2022;17(7):125-144. http://ezproxy.gc.cuny.edu/login?url=https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/evaluation-learning-management-systems/docview/2665659220/se-2. doi: https://doi.org/10.3991/ijet.v17i07.28881.

https://eliterate.us/d2l-again-misusing-academic-data-for-brightspace-marketing-claims/

Moseley, Simone and Taiwo Ajani, “Users’ Perceptions on the Brightspace Learning Management System” (Issues in Information Systems, Vol 16, Issue IV, pp.10-19, 2015) https://doi.org/10.48009/4_iis_2015_10-19 https://iacis.org/iis/2015/4_iis_2015_10-19.pdf

Young, Jeffrey R., “Colleges Consider Using Blogs Instead of Blackboard” (Chronicle of Higher Education, May 28, 2009) https://www.chronicle.com/article/colleges-consider-using-blogs-instead-of-blackboard/?sra=true

LMSs and potential risks to students:

https://themarkup.org/machine-learning/2021/03/02/major-universities-are-using-race-as-a-high-impact-predictor-of-student-success

https://themarkup.org/machine-learning/2023/11/30/he-wanted-privacy-his-college-gave-him-none

https://er.educause.edu/articles/2015/6/whats-next-for-the-lms#:~:text=Estimates%20of%20colleges%20and%20universities,useful%20tool%20to%20enhance%20teaching

https://brightspaceresources.ccc.edu/kb/respondus/

CUNY & Other Universities’ Transition to Brightspace: 

CUNY: 

https://www.newyorkbids.us/new-york-bids/bids-NBD15903250161724264.htm

https://provost.baruch.cuny.edu/academic-affairs/brightspace-learning-management-system-lms-transition/

Baruch’s Transition to Brightspace, Our New Learning Management System

SUNY:

https://onedtech.philhillaa.com/p/lms-market-changes-suny-announces-switch-from-blackboard-learn-to-d2l-brightspace

U of Buffalo:

https://edscoop.com/university-buffalo-automates-lms-switch/

https://er.educause.edu/articles/2021/5/putting-all-three-components-of-digital-transformation-to-work-on-campus: “Technology implementations never actually end up being easy, despite what a vendor may say.”

NYU:

https://nyunews.com/opinion/2022/11/08/nyu-switch-to-google-classroom/

Algonquin College, Canada:

https://bootcamp.uxdesign.cc/case-study-on-brightspace-effectiveness-for-algonquin-college-students-aec414d7f607

Examples of Universities with (more) transparent LMS adoption that involves student/faculty/staff stakeholders in the process:

https://www.uhonline.hawaii.edu/uh-lms-review/

https://safecomputing.umich.edu/viziblue/academic-data

https://safecomputing.umich.edu/viziblue/student-record-data

Know your rights:

https://www1.cuny.edu/sites/cunyufs/2020/09/10/affirming-the-privacy-of-learning-data-at-cuny/

https://www1.cuny.edu/sites/cunyufs/committees/senate/standing/libraries-it/meetings-2019-2020/

https://www.change.org/p/chancellor-f%C3%A9lix-v-matos-rodr%C3%ADguez-do-not-let-cuny-violate-student-privacy/u/27653721

https://www.usscuny.org/

https://cunydsc.org/

LMSs and AI: (N.B. some of these come from Brightspace’s parent company D2L itself.)

Beetham, H (2023, July 14). AI Literacy and Schrödinger’s Ethics. https://helenbeetham.substack.com/p/ai-literacy-and-schrodingers-ethics?publication_id=1342609

Clarkson, Kari, “AI, the LMS and Evolution: The Future of Learning” (D2L/Blog/ May 9, 2023) https://www.d2l.com/blog/ai-the-lms-and-evolution-the-future-of-learning/

Dahl, Barry (Community College Daily, April 17, 2023)

https://www.ccdaily.com/2023/04/how-will-ai-impact-the-future-of-the-lms/ [NB: “Barry Dahl is the Teaching & Learning Advocate at D2L”]

“My LMS has a fever, and the only cure is more AI” (Online Education Across the Atlantic, 27 November 2023)

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/my-lms-has-a-fever-and-the-only-cure-is-more-ai/id1716405256?i=1000636705829

AI detectors and false positives on student papers:

https://nationalcentreforai.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2023/09/18/ai-detection-latest-recommendations/

https://www.cell.com/patterns/fulltext/S2666-3899(23)00130-7?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS2666389923001307%3Fshowall%3Dtrue

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/04/01/chatgpt-cheating-detection-turnitin/

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/student-accused-ai-cheating-turnitin-1234747351/

Additional scholarly Articles & critiques:

Brenden, Mark, “Learning and Management during and after the Pandemic: Reading Student Resistance to LMS.” (Pedagogy 1 April 2023; 23 [2]: 297–309.) doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/15314200-10296007 (available with CUNY login)

Perrotta, Carlo. “the automation of pedagogical.” World Yearbook of Education 2024: Digitalisation of Education in the Era of Algorithms, Automation and Artificial Intelligence (2023).

Paywalled:

Ghorbani Moghadam, Rojin. “InsightSpace: Broadening Inclusive Education Horizons for Vision Impairment.” (2023).

Conceição, S.C.O., Hill, L.H. (2023). What’s Behind the Learning Management System: Algorithmic Design in Online Learning. In: Guralnick, D., Auer, M.E., Poce, A. (eds) Creative Approaches to Technology-Enhanced Learning for the Workplace and Higher Education. TLIC 2023. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 767. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-41637-8_10