Gallaudet University – Chartered by Abraham Lincoln
7/11/2012 10:20am
Initially started with face-2-face training and noticed a decline in enrollment.
92% of their faculty use Blackboard
eCurriculum – a term to use for Blackboard Training
Fixed Dates 2 weeks long.
Watch recorded webinar
5 modules, use adaptive release.
Use collaborate when needed to demo and view instructor.
Now it is self-paced, and self enroll.
8:30am: Keynote starts out with a digital leaner/native talking about how she connects and interacts with the world.
Funny explanation of social media and Blackboard in potty language.
The Vision
The Fundamentals
New Services
Mobile Showcase
Vision –
Choice: Company supports multiple learning systems. with Multiple service offerings (consulting, student services, Managed Hosting, Online Program Mgmt, Developmental Education, Open Source Services)
Support you no matter what learning tech. you use on campus.
Innovation:
Need to Innovate accross Blackboard Learn, Angel, Moodle, Joule, Edline & Blackboard Engage.
Integrating open education standards into products.
ProjectXP – Tech that works across platforms, being part of 25,000 schools around the world.
8:45: learning object repository (xplor): search, create and manage content. Can be accessed from anyone of the different learning standards (LTI etc). [filtering and tagging is built in]
Create Content within Xplor: Pages, Files, Links, Assessments, Assignments, Discussions and External Tools (LTI) also Collections, Channels and Common Cartridge.
Access:
Access to content partnerships by faculty in an easy to use way.
The Fundamentals
Support, Openness, Transparency and Quality
Support performance: 7 day resolution 63% 1 Day Resolution 89%
Blackboard Openness: Oscelot, LTI, Common Cartridge, Bb Open Database, SCORM/TIN CAN, LIS, CAS, SHIBBOLETH, Blackboard education Open Source Services, Bb Building Blocks
All time highs in Support Issue Resolution, Change Mgmt, Usability, Quality, Recommend Bb.
Innovation – Excellence in User Experience, Educationally driven feature extension, Evolution of core technology & methods.
Products: Usability and removal of clicks was key in Bb Learn 9.1.8
Pedagogy First – Assessment Item Analysis – give faculty at a single glance a good sense of how students performed.
Enterprise course evaluation and surveys will be part of course delivery product at no additional charge!
Text & Text-to-Voice Notifications, Two-Way Messaging (from course to phone and phone to course)
One-way text delivery from course part of Course Delivery in Fall!
Collaborate – Improved Integration
Collaborate is Mobile in the Fall! Collaborate can be linked to gradebook and automatically give participation scores based on presence.
Social Learning
Edit your Profile Card, set privacy options, give academic interests. Blackboard Social will come this Fall! Blackboard Social can be shared outside just the school to the broad network of people that use Blackboard Social.
Program Management
How to go or grow online – big challenge for all institutions.
Blackboard can help with: Program Development, Faculty & Courses, Marketing, Student Lifecycle
Blackboard Mobile!
Mobile Showcase:
Usage Information:
Push Notifications – app pings you to interact. (new announcment, new content, new course, new grade, new test, test due, test overdue)
Roadmap
Mobile Learn Worldwide: If institution has not subsidized mobile learn, users can make a purchase mobile learn for $1.99 a year or $5.99 unlimited.
Institutional License, Mobile learn will be embedded within mobile central.
Innovation in Higher Education: Leadership and the Role of Technology
Keynote Subject Matter: Focusing on Freeman’s industry knowledge and leadership as well as the University of Maryland, Baltimore County’s (UMBC) usage of analytics to enable data-driven decision making.
Michael Chasen doing the introductions.
175 Client Receptions
3,500 attendees – most well attended Bb conference ever!
Roadmap will be tomorrow at 8:20am!
real advantages of Blackboard – kids not willing to speak up in class will discuss issue on a discussion board.
Dr. Hrabowski’s student kept realizing more ways Blackboard is helping them as a student.
State of Higher Ed in 2012:
Themes:
Education increasingly being anytime anywhere
Focusing on access and portabilty
Growth and Current outcomes
Focus on Ethics
Increased Globalization
2005 250million students around the world were in Higher ed.
Tech will continue to change our insitutions
Online Education is Growing
social media
Cloud Computing
how we deliver instructions
Unlimited access to knowledge
Role of presidents and boards will be more important than ever in asking the questions and setting the tone.
Our responsibility to use our expertise to have an impact on the way leaders will think about what they can do in supporting the environment and faculty.
How do we go about changing the culture of education? Academic motivation.
How we can use technology to pull students to the work. (usdemocrazy.com)
I came I laughed I learned. Make it fun and interesting.
2/3 of americans don’t have a college degree. People 35-60 in america are second most educated people in the world. Under 35 is 11th.
35% of white people have degree – 20% of black 15% of Hispanic and 40% Asian – 2/3 of world population don’t have a degree
India is adding 1000 universities, effectively doubling the number of those with college degrees.
Fewer than 25% of first generation college students succeed. We need to change that to make all of us better.
America has a major problem with following behind – every percent increase in GDP adds about 1 million jobs. We need jobs, we need more educated trained people producing.
It’s not about race, it’s about the opportunity to get an education – Freeman Hrabowski
Science & engineering disproportionately create more jobs than other majors
k-12 needs more math and science support! They are about Methods and not about the math.
Think about access and success and what we can do as a campus to change the way we do business. It all begins with attitudes.
Innovation is the name of the game. What happens on my campus that would be defined as innovation.
“Look to the student to the left and to the right and our goal is that all three of you graduate.”
Use Blackboard and technology to empower the student to be more involved.
Small Groups, proactive mentoring examples of strategies to increase successful engagement and empowerment.
Online Learning and Hybrid approaches can lead to even more effective results than only face to face.
Importance of Course Design –
Focus on finding ways to engage the students. Constant monitoring and continual improvement is important, look past the anecdotes.
T-Bug: the Texas Blackboard Users’ Group
Room 294
3:10pm
Upcoming Webinars Collaborate sessions: (July, August)
http://t-bug.org/ – T-Bug Website
Subscribe to the T-Bug listserv from this site!
T-Bug Conference will be in Killeen Texas
on Thursday October 25 & Friday October 26th 2012
Collaborating for a Steller Future
Conference fee ($250) Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Planetarium, Party
Suggestions for T-Bug
– what other schools in Texas are doing on site
– a way for admins to exchange ideas
– Survey of group
Connections.blackboard.com – All of the T-bug webinars are hosted here. It is a community site for Blackboard user groups.
Elected Board of T-Bug
President, President Elect, Secretary, Treasurer, CIO. Half are elected for 1 year and half are elected for 2 years.
Members come from System admins, support, teaching and learning, management/administration 2 members at large.
BbWorld Blog: Engagement, Persistence and Retention: How is the University of Southern Mississippi using ConnectYard to Successfully Enhance these Key Factors
Room 277
Tuesday 7/10/2012
Overall Concept: How Student Engagement and Persistence has a positive effect on retention.
Students and faculty choose course by course what channels they want to be communicated through. (Facebook Twitter, Texting and e-mail)
Faculty doesn’t have to have a Facebook or twitter account to use ConnectYard for the students in their courses.
Hurdles:
– Marketing
– Faculty and Student buy-in
Social Media Policy (prohibits faculty from using it to teach classes through facebook, but they can use it to supplement.)
Faculty/Student Buy-in
Position ConnectYard
Encourage students to personalize notifications
Stress Use to Quantify Class Participation.
Current use of ConnectYard
Getting Everyone Involved
Communication within Courses
Student Notification
How it works: Messages, Discussions and Announcements come through Channels (Twitter, Facebook, Text & e-mail). Gradebook updates coming.
Planned uses:
Personalize Channels
One way & Two Way Communication
Bb Integration
Participation Points
Granular Administration
So the first session I’m attending is actually a pre conference workshop on Blackboard’s Content Management System. SHSU will be implementing this system going forward so we thought it wise to attend this particular session. The boot camp is about a 6 hour hands-on session.
Introductions, a fair amount of K-12 in attendance with the Higher ed folks.
There are two other participants from Texas besides SHSU in this session. Texas A&M is here as is Region 4 in Houston.
The File/Content manager resides in the course.
Repository – file storage and mgmt. for
– Share content
– Customize permissions
– Search Metadata
– Learning Object catalog
– Tracking
– Versioning
– Portfolios
– Work Flows
– Goals Alignment
We are getting not only a hands on look into how to manage and add content, but a peak into the System admin side of how content manager works.
Colleagues from other institutions can be given a pass to access course content and that pass can be a limited amount of time. This is a great tool for collaboration.
Being able to look at different versions of the same file is another bonus.
The content manager is closely tied to user roles within the system. All the way down to how much space a user in the system. I cannot wait to implement this product back at campus!
An ode to this week’s Blackboard World 2012 Conference in New Orleans:
‘Twas the flight before Blackboard World
We arrived at the gate.
Thinking about multi-booked sessions
for which we’ll be late.
Dinner with vendors, beignets at Du Monde,
the Client appreciation party, of which we are fond.
Pre conference workshops to jumpstart our brains
Learning best practices on which we will train.
My track is training, f2f and online,
So many sessions, so little time!
T-Bug, Best practice, pedagogy first
Networking with colleagues, you work up a thirst!
Vendor exhibits, giveaways galore,
Or maybe a door prize on which we will score!
We will listen, we will talk, we will soak up the knowledge
We will share our experiences with private sector, k-12, or college.
We hope to return come Friday this week,
Loaded with the knowledge we strove to seek.
So I say to you all, let’s learn without fear,
For if we want more, we wait ‘till next year!
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