Presentation slides for the session at the ETUG 2010 Fall Workshop in New Westminster, British Columbia Presenters: Martin Voelkening and Gail Morong - Thompson Rivers University, Open Learning Description: Although collaboration is an important learning objective for students, we as course developers seem to neglect its power in our own daily work. The presenters will share a few short case studies of real-life examples of challenges encountered during the incorporation of technology into online courses, and show how collaboration among the various people involved in a project, such as instructional designers, editors, media, intellectual property officers, librarians and course production has led to solutions.

1. PRACTICE WHAT YOU PREACH:
COLLABORATING TOWARDS SOLUTIONS IN
ONLINE COURSE DEVELOPMENT

2. Introductions

9. FEAR

10. WORRY

11. TRUST

12. Positive Attitude

13. Listen
&
Learn

15. #1

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Job Shadowing

17. Some preferred to do it in groups of 4Some preferred to do it in groups of 4
(Moragh Macaulay, Jon Fulton, Bob Byrne, Wayne Egers)(Moragh Macaulay, Jon Fulton, Bob Byrne, Wayne Egers)
Some preferred to do it in groups of 4Some preferred to do it in groups of 4
(Moragh Macaulay, Jon Fulton, Bob Byrne, Wayne Egers)(Moragh Macaulay, Jon Fulton, Bob Byrne, Wayne Egers)

18. Learn about partner’s job
84 % have learned a lot
about their partner’s job
84 % have learned a lot
about their partner’s job

19. “Friendly, functional
exploration of the two
jobs, challenges &
opportunities.”

20. “The volume of
learning was equal to
weeks on the job.”

21. #2

23. The Production TeamThe Production Team

24. Production ProcessProduction Process
•Collects course
materials
•Fills out forms
•Packages all materials
together
•Submits course to
Production Supervisor
•Reviews course request
•Checks for major
problems
• Estimates time and
resources needed
•Assigns 2 DSOs
• Main DSO
• Second DSO
• Reviews all course
materials
• Organizes Production
Meeting
• Prepares work

25. Production Process 2Production Process 2
•Main DSO
•Prepare course materials
•Makes PDFs AND/OR
•Uploads content to BB
•Updates reports regularly
•Second DSO
•Reviews work of Main DSO
•Provide coverage and
support
•Reviews course
•Provides feedback or
sign off
 In written form
 Combined
• Completes sign-off
procedure

26. • Online Curriculum
Developer’s Resource
• Simulation in
LEAD 4901
• Innovations Lab
• WordPress Multiuser
(WPMU)
• VoiceThread
• Elluminate

27. Online Curriculum
Developer’s Resource
http://olcourseblog.tru.ca/idg/
Online Curriculum
Developer’s Resource
http://olcourseblog.tru.ca/idg/

28. Mount Everest
Simulation
Mount Everest
Simulation

32. Innovations Lab

33. Purpose
•Experiment with new technology
•Training in use of technology
•Testing and research which is
oriented towards improved user
experiences
•Investigation of supportable Web
2.0
environments and processes
•Research into digital OERs
•Delivery of webinars and online
sessions
Collaborators
•Instructional Design Department
•Canada Research Chair in
E-Learning Practices
•OL Course Developers
•OL Faculty Members
•IT and Curriculum Services
•TRU Faculty and Students
•E-Learning Facilitator
•Academic Directors
•Research Partners
•Centre for Teaching and Learning

34. WordPress
Multi User
WordPress
Multi User

35. Collaborators
•Course Writer
•IDs
•Open Learning Faculty Members
•IT Services
•Students
Uses
•Modified LMS in EDDL courses
(Graduate Certificate in Online
Teaching and Learning)
•Flexible
•Authentic learning experience
•Access to content after online
course
ends
•Plug-ins increase its functionality

36. Plugins
•BuddyPress - free and open
source
plugin adds social networking
features, including “Groups”
•Test other plugins that may
improve WPMU blogging tool as
an LMS for TRU-OL online students
Issues
•Security concerns
•Interactions between plugins
•Content and form not easily
transferable to new versions of
the course (not scalable)
•No way to archive course data
•Each offering requires intensive
instructor set-up (double posts,
broken RSS feeds)
•Tools for creating discussions
problematic and complicated to
maintain

38. Collaborators
•Course Writers
•Media Team
•E-Learning Facilitator
•IDs
•Director of IDD
•Open Learning Faculty Members
•Students
Uses
•Collaborative, multimedia slide
show
•Holds images, documents and
videos
•Allows people to navigate slides and
leave comments in different ways
•Supports PDF, Microsoft Word,
Excel, and PowerPoint images, and
videos
•Imports photos from Flickr,
Facebook or the web

39. Collaboration with
the Media Team

40. Collaborators
•IDs
•Delivery Support
•E-Learning Facilitator
•OLFMs
•Students
•IT
•Canada Research Chair in
E-Learning Practices
Uses
•Course Delivery
•Professional development of Open
Learning Faculty Members