Slides from ALT-C 2014 presentation

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Are we there yet?
Martin Lynch
Catherine Naamani @cnaamani

2. Learning Environment Review
‘…to establish current and future requirements
for a technology enhanced learning, teaching
and assessment environment for the University
of South Wales.’
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4. What students want…
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‘Reading list
content should be
available on
Blackboard to
read/download…’
‘Easier access to
content, Easier
sharing of content,
Easier searching of
content’
‘Give us access to an
app that will allow us
to access Blackboard
directly through
mobile devices…’
Is there a minimum
that you expect
Blackboard to
deliver…?

5. “At the moment you just get thrown in and you have
to figure it out as you go along as an academic. You
end up being able to do what you have to do but
then you have interesting conversations with other
people and discover that there are much easier ways
of doing these things.”
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Support Model

6. “I have become increasingly aware though…there is
absolutely no consistency in terms of what does go
on there, what should go on there, what there should
be a minimum expectation of. That can vary from
very well developed modules if somebody has the
skill set to do that over modules that literally do not
have everything, not even a handbook. Everything is
emailed or printed. It's archaic.”
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Consistency

7. Conflicting Expectations
“It is a challenge to the workload model but it's also a perception
that online delivery takes time and is valuable. To a lot of people
Blackboard was introduced years ago as a repository, you put
your Powerpoints and everything in there and then you did your
classroom stuff and it was a way you could talk to students. And
that is still the perception of a lot of managers about how
Blackboard works. They don't realise that it takes hours and
hours to respond. You know, you get a discussion forum with
twenty three entries and every student is expecting a personal
response...and that's their expectations of online delivery.”
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Recommendations
• Integrated online learning environment
• Single VLE
• Revisiting Support Model
• Community of Practice
• Minimum Requirements Policy

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Implementation
Learning
Through
Technology
Supporting
Technology
Systems
Supporting
Users of
Technology

10. © University of South Wales
Martin Lynch
martin.lynch@southwales.ac.uk
Catherine Naamani
@cnaamani
catherine.naamani@southwales.ac.uk