The Good, the Bad and the Out There: Beyond and Back to Blackboard in the Business School - Stephen King, eLearning Manager; Sam Bizri, Senior Educational Designer, University of Sydney Business School | ANZTLC15

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2013 Blackboard Catalyst award winners for Innovation, Stephen (Steve) King and Houssam (Sam) Bizri, first introduce the enterprise-wide Blackboard Learn environment and practices developed at the University of Sydney Business School. They move on to discuss how the constraints of infrastructure and policy can curb educational technology innovation and experimentation, in contradistinction to the hype in Higher Education circles surrounding the new trends, needs and opportunities for online learning. Finally, looking at the perennial learning and teaching challenge of getting busy research focussed academics to use more Blackboard tools in their teaching, Sam and Steve will outline their disruptive approach: forget the tools entirely and go beyond the LMS to other obvious and not-so-obvious technologies, loading their creations back in to Blackboard for flipped outcomes. They outline the new challenges these pose for Educational Technology teams and the opportunities these present for educators and students. Delivered at Innovate and Educate: Teaching and Learning Conference by Blackboard. 24 -27 August 2015 in Adelaide, Australia.

Education

The Good, the Bad and the Out There:Beyond and
Back to Blackboard in the Business School
Stephen King, eLearning Manager;
Sam Bizri, Senior Educational Designer,
The University of Sydney Business School

At a Glance
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Bb Learn and Mobile only – no Content/Analytics
1. 13,000 students
2. 200 to 300 staff in Bb per semester
3. 3 e-Learning staff
4. 100% Bb use / 100% TII / 100% lecture recording
5. 100% e-submission of marks (PORS)

Assessment
• 100% Online submission of all
written assessments (BB/TII)
• Online Feedback using Custom
Comments, Rubrics and Audio
Feedback
• Academic Tool (ONLY).
Similarity reports not available to
students
• Video / PPT / Excel (Bb Assignment)
13

Student Engagement / Mobile Assessment
17

Stay Connected
• Stephen King
eLearning Manager
Business School IT
T: +61 2 9036 9401
E: stephen.king@sydney.edu.au
W: sydney.edu.au/business
L:https://au.linkedin.com/pub/steve-king/25/3b/46
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• Sam Bizri
Senior Educational Designer
Business School IT
T: +61 2 9114 1216
E: sam.bizri@sydney.edu.au
W: sydney.edu.au/business
T: twitter.com/sambizri
F: facebook.com/sam.Bizri
L: https://au.linkedin.com/in/sambizri

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