User talk:Leighblackall/Identifying Success in Learning Management System Changeover

Reviewer notes from ICCE2019 submission
The paper entitled: "Identifying Success in Learning Management System Changeover: Implications for professional development" describes experiences from a change of the learning management system at a large university.

The reviewers mainly pointed out that the style of the paper is very unusual. It is not written coherent with usual academic standards, e.g., it lacks a literature review, the description of theories and a clear methodology. What it does nicely is to report about the experiences from different perspectives. Therefore, reviewers suggested to rewrite the paper in a more academic way.

I do agree with the reviewers: the topic might be interesting (although not new, LMSes are used worldwide and are surely also exchanged over time), but the paper needs some proper rewriting in a more academic way.

Unfortunately, for the aforementioned reasons, this paper can not be accepted on a scientific conference.

--- REVIEW 1

SCORE: -3 (strong reject)

This is a rather unconventional paper in the sense that it does not adhere to the rigour of academic writing. There is no literature review, theories, methodology but rather, it chronicles the changes that took place with the learning management system from the perspectives of the author at RMIT. There were also references that did not appear in the in-text citations too. Although there are some lessons to be learnt from this paper, it has to be written in a more scholastic manner to be accepted for ICCE.

--- REVIEW 2

SCORE: -3 (strong reject)

The paper describes experiences regarding implementing an LMS at a university. The paper focuses on change management and quality management issues.

Scope

The paper is in principle interesting to the audience. It describes experiences of a concrete implementation and the lessons learned. Thus, it fits the call for papers and can stimulate the discussion of the audience at the conference.

Originality

The topic of the paper is not new. There have been hundreds and thousands of implementations of LMS in educational institutions on many levels. Moreover, the paper claims to identify success factors and recommendations. This has been discussed in many research papers as well, ranging from general recommendations to very specific models for measuring success (e.g. extensions of the deLone / MacLean IS success model). Therefore, there is no new contribution of the paper.

Quality / Methodology

The paper is an experience report and not a scientific paper. The author has not provided a solid background section, covering the state of the art regarding LMS implementations or LMS success factors. Also, there is no description of the methodology (how were success factors derived, how were the recommendations developed). The author does not build on the existing body of knowledge, therefore it is hard to judge what additional contribution is made by the paper.

Overall recommendation

The paper cannot be accepted at a scientific conference. Still, the topic is interesting. The paper should be rewritten, including a solid background section and providing a clear methodology.

--- REVIEW 4

SCORE: 1 (weak accept)

Actualy the only thing for this paper is, this is not a research paper, it seems like thoughts about the topic. If it will be a review paper, literature part must be stronger and discussions should depend on the literature. And also core section of the paper should be defined more detailed.