Introducing interactive whiteboards in the schools

Introducing interactive whiteboards in the schools: an experience report

Education

Interactive Whiteboards (IAW): what are they? Intro

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In 2016 the Centre for English Teaching (CET) launched Blackboard for its university pathway courses (DEC) as part of an initiative to innovate and transform them into high quality blended Academic English language programs that would support students in developing both academic skills and awareness of the technology and systems required to excel during the first semester at university. While LMS use is standard practice in higher education, for the English Language Intensive Courses for Overseas Students (ELICOS) sector the integration of an online platform is still new territory and there is great potential for innovation within teaching and learning practices. Moreover, the unique context allows for a fresh perspective on how Blackboard, at its core, is a dynamic and flexible platform in teaching and learning practices that fosters communities of practice and consolidates traditional educational practices. The implementation of Blackboard across university pathways courses at CET faced two major hurdles. To begin with, international students were less familiar with the culture and expectations surrounding LMS use at tertiary level and the nature of independent learning. Secondly, teaching staff had varying degrees of proficiency and experience in using technology in the classroom. Dealing with the challenge of educating, immersing and empowering both teachers and students simultaneously in their use of Blackboard as an integrated and powerful tool in teaching and learning raised numerous questions and helped gain valuable insights into adoption and adaption of technology and the opportunity for creative disruption. Grounding innovations in solid pedagogy, integrating technology and independent learning with in-class interaction and making learning objectives clear to both students and teachers enabled the successful uptake of Blackboard and allowed for greater support and autonomy for both teachers and students.

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The presentation will outline the systematic use of the Blackboard Wiki tool, for a large class (120) consisting of external and internal students, to engage in Group work with success. The added benefit was an enhanced student capacity to engage with digital media in their professional role. This UQ post-graduate course has received annual teaching awards which have reflected high student satisfaction in the evaluations. Our case study illustrates use of the Wiki tool to enable collaboration within a group of 6 (three from internal and 3 from external mode) to write a formal electronic Report on a national health system that could be used by that government to strengthen its health system. In a practical sense, participants will be able to access the framework of assessment, the tool set up and the marking criteria, along with student samples and student evaluation.

Student Evaluation During and After COVID-19

Learning Analytics and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning - an obvious ...

The scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) essentially advocates for a research approach to be applied to the improvement of learning and teaching. It encourages teachers to reflect in a scholarly way on their teaching practice and at the more advanced level to undertake research on teaching practice and curriculum. Learning analytics has the potential to provide data on elements of the teaching process which have to date been difficult to measure particularly for the broader cohort of teachers. This presentation will draw attention to the connection between SoTL and learning analytics and prompt participants to think about how learning analytics can be used in a wider context to contribute to changes in teaching design and practice.

Thinking it through: Choosing the right Blackboard tool for the job | Neville...

EDEN Digital Learning Europe

Blackboard Learn has many tools. How do you help academics to make the right choices? How do you validate that the choice you've made will be fit for purpose? In this session, we will be exploring a framework for tool choice for assessment across quizzes, assignments, journals, blogs and discussion boards in whole-class, group or individual contexts. We will also share best practices in the preparation and use of these tools.

“Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge.”: Assessment and t...

How to engage and support students online

EDEN Digital Learning Europe

To support the changes to Disabled Students’ Allowance (DSA) provision meaning English universities need to be ready and able to support learners by September 2016 this presentation provides an overview of inclusive classrooms and outlines the benefits and challenges faced in implementing them. They will also help institutions towards achieving inclusivity and best practice for all learners through their online and face to face classrooms and provide a practical framework to: • Assess their pedagogy • Review their existing content • Evaluate their institution's technology http://webinars.blackboard.com/accessibility

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Higher Education & Game Principles: Context, Theory & Application - Daniel La...

This presentation reports on the efficacy of a mobile learning intervention that combined ‘push notifications’ and game principles within a timed quiz app. An institutional interdisciplinary case study was conducted which compared rates of student retention and academic performance with their usage of a purpose-designed learning app. Leading up to lectures the app pushed daily quizzes to students’ personal mobile devices and then rewarded them with feedback, points, badges and a position on a leaderboard. During this session, the findings of this study will be discussed and conclusions made in regards to what findings mean for the future research into higher education learning enabled via mobile app technologies.

TLC2016 - Experiences and strategies used for implementing a portfolio didact...

Presenters: Bo Lüders Organisation: University College Southern Denmark (UC Syd) Description: In this session we will present our experience with using Blackboard Portfolio on a fully 100 % online Teacher training education. You will be introduced to how the portfolio became a key concept in the pedagogical thinking of the online course and how the portfolio gave educators a completely new and deeper insight in the learning of the students compared to students in traditional face-to-face education. You will be given examples of the formative evaluation performed in the portfolio and will see examples of portfolios created by students. The portfolios will be in Danish but presenters will translate the structural elements so you can be inspired on the use of portfolios in Blackboard.

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TLC2016 - The use of Collaborate in schools in Northern Ireland – Needs Must!

Presenter: Eamon McAteer Organisation: C2k Description: The introduction of BlackBoard Collaborate into schools throughout Northern Ireland as part of the Education Network NI provided schools with a range of opportunities to: share, exchange and learn from each other. Eamon McAteer, Curriculum Consultant with C2k will discuss some innovative ways schools use this platform to tackle educational and social needs in a cost effective and safe manner. He will also examine some of the related challenges and opportunities of this technology.

TLC2016 - Mobile Learning – Unlocking the potential of authentic assessment a...

Presenter: Chris Moore Organisation: University of the West of England Description: Authentic assessment has the potential to be very valuable, allowing for much more complex analysis of the students’ performance than traditional de-contextualised assessments. On the other hand, online examinations under controlled conditions can be unviable for large student cohorts due to pressures on the real estate of the institution. This session will showcase a number of innovative initiatives that are enabling us to create sustainable authentic assessments and very flexible online examinations. We will bring a number of mobile devices to the session, so that attendees will have the opportunity to experience first-hand the solutions we have developed, actively participating during the session.

(My) Key Concepts for Online Learning Design (2021)

John MacMillan

Australian Academic Leadership Survey &;Interviews – An interim report - Alla...

Australian Higher education is facing the demands of new and rapidly changing student demographics, an increasingly competitive global environment and tighter funding and accountability constraints. Now, in 2016, it is an important time to understand the issues the sector is facing and consolidate the ways we are responding. We sought the perspectives of Australian university education leaders on current learning and teaching challenges, trends likely to influence the future of learning and teaching at Australian Universities and the ways our universities are responding. This presentation reports on the findings of our research thus far and some of the ways that Blackboard Strategic and other Consultancy Services are positioned to assist our institutions going forward.

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TLC2016 - Online Results Entry using the Grade Journey Tool

Presenters: Birthe Aagesen & Karen Louise Møller Organisation: Faculty of Arts, Aarhus University Description: Presentation session (45 min) with time for questions. The presentation will address: - An investigation of Blackboard Course Structures on the basis of a socio cultural perception of learning - Application and evaluation of selected Blackboard Course Structures in courses at Aarhus University.

Reinventing the lecture: how video technology and learning analytics are tran...

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US-China Smart Education Conference: Collaborative Knowledge Building

The power of inner feedback

Our research goes back to first principles about what good assessment and feedback looks like at this point in the 21st century. Prof David Nicol, who developed the widely used REAP (re-engineering assessment practice) principles, will join us to discuss how his current thinking is evolving. We will discuss David’s findings in the context of our landscape review and look at how this group may help take the work forward. Presentiation by Prof David Nicol, Research professor: teaching excellence initiative, Adam Smith business school, University of Glasgow

The assessment diaries

A presentation on the use of online Assessment Diaries at Glamorgan. The presentation will enable the viewer to understand the logistical process of gathering assessment deadlines and feedback dates and how these are brought together for a student and staff overview of the Assessment Diaries. Participants will be invited to discuss the feasibility of transferring this approach into their institution.

Blackboard as an Integrated Part of the Learning Environment and Student Expe...

Like all universities across the globe the University of Westminster is faced with major changes in student expectations and the role that technology has to play in curriculum delivery and the overall student experience. In 2013 the University initiated its Learning Futures program with the aim of transforming learning and teaching at the institution. Central to the transformation is an aim to make blended learning, through the use of technology, more the norm rather than the exception. To facilitate this shift in delivery approach across all subject areas, Westminster has and continues to make significant investment in both its virtual and physical environment in efforts to better integrate the online and face-to-face experience.

TLC2016 - Life, Universal Design & Blackboard

Presenter: Tony Churchill Organisation: De Montfort University Description: This session provides a brief introduction to the principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and its implications for delivery in Higher Education both online and face-to-face. UDL is being implemented at De Montfort University (Leicester, UK) to enhance learning and teaching for ALL our students. DMU’s application of the principles of UDL seeks to provide an inclusive experience using the Blackboard learning environment, whilst addressing reductions in government funding for disabled students.

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Using Wikipedia as a reference for extracting semantic information

In this paper we present an algorithm that, using Wikipedia as a reference, extracts semantic information from an arbitrary text. Our algorithm refines a procedure proposed by others, which mines all the text contained in the whole Wikipedia. Our refinement, based on a clustering approach, exploits the semantic information contained in certain types of Wikipedia hyperlinks, and also introduces an analysis based on multi-words. Our algorithm outperforms current methods in that the output contains many less false positives. We were also able to understand which (structural) part of the texts provides most of the semantic information extracted by the algorithm.

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