MWLUG 2017 - Collaboration and Productivity from the other sideJohn Head
The IBM Collaboration and Productivity experience is well known to this community, but there are other options. The Microsoft experience, including Office 365, SharePoint Online, Groups, Teams, Dynamics CRM, MS Graph, PowerBI and more. This session will give an overview of the offering and how the cloud is allowing for rapid delivery of functionality. We will showcase customer solutions built on top of the platform, including intranets, document management, workflow, and business solutions. We will highlight the customization and development options available, including Office add-ins, MS Teams toolkit, Nintex Workflow, Winward document generation, and Azure custom .Net development. We will highlight a day in the life demo for sales, knowledge worker, and executives.
Social Solutions for User Support and CommunicationKen Efta
Deck for a Webinar presented to an online audience for the Society for Technical Communications (STC) in August 2010. Outlines use of socially-focused solutions for support and internal communications.
ARMA Vancouver (in partnership with ARMA VI) invited Bruce Miller from RIMtech to give his 2 day “Managing Electronic Records with SharePoint” workshop.
Bruce Smith recaps some of the key messages about managing an EDRMS project, the roles of IT and RM, metrics for measuring progress, and 3rd party tools to add recordkeeping capabilities to SharePoint.
Bruce Norman Smith has been a SharePoint champion at Environment Canada and the Medical Council of Canada. A Master’s degree in Library and Information Studies (MLIS, McGill ‘08) provides Bruce with graduate level training in business process analysis, database design, xml metadata development, and IM theory & methods. Bruce’s talent for bridging the gaps between business needs, RM and Archival requirements & technical best practices ensures your entire organization can benefit from a SharePoint implementation. His current focus is on mastering the infrastructure and services that support a rock solid ECM solution.
Bruce's blog site is: http://seek.itgroove.net/
Social Intranet Content Management
- Content management principles
- Rules for creating intranet content
- Writing for the intranet
- Empowering employees to create the RIGHT CONTENT
- Dos and Don'ts for CMS's and SharePoint
This deck brings you 32 Uses of Microsoft in the Classroom. Be inspired, and explore the ideas in more depth at our Blog Post http://blogs.msdn.com/b/austeachers/archive/2015/01/29/32-engaging-ways-to-use-microsoft-in-your-classroom.aspx
MWLUG 2017 - Collaboration and Productivity from the other sideJohn Head
The IBM Collaboration and Productivity experience is well known to this community, but there are other options. The Microsoft experience, including Office 365, SharePoint Online, Groups, Teams, Dynamics CRM, MS Graph, PowerBI and more. This session will give an overview of the offering and how the cloud is allowing for rapid delivery of functionality. We will showcase customer solutions built on top of the platform, including intranets, document management, workflow, and business solutions. We will highlight the customization and development options available, including Office add-ins, MS Teams toolkit, Nintex Workflow, Winward document generation, and Azure custom .Net development. We will highlight a day in the life demo for sales, knowledge worker, and executives.
Social Solutions for User Support and CommunicationKen Efta
Deck for a Webinar presented to an online audience for the Society for Technical Communications (STC) in August 2010. Outlines use of socially-focused solutions for support and internal communications.
ARMA Vancouver (in partnership with ARMA VI) invited Bruce Miller from RIMtech to give his 2 day “Managing Electronic Records with SharePoint” workshop.
Bruce Smith recaps some of the key messages about managing an EDRMS project, the roles of IT and RM, metrics for measuring progress, and 3rd party tools to add recordkeeping capabilities to SharePoint.
Bruce Norman Smith has been a SharePoint champion at Environment Canada and the Medical Council of Canada. A Master’s degree in Library and Information Studies (MLIS, McGill ‘08) provides Bruce with graduate level training in business process analysis, database design, xml metadata development, and IM theory & methods. Bruce’s talent for bridging the gaps between business needs, RM and Archival requirements & technical best practices ensures your entire organization can benefit from a SharePoint implementation. His current focus is on mastering the infrastructure and services that support a rock solid ECM solution.
Bruce's blog site is: http://seek.itgroove.net/
Social Intranet Content Management
- Content management principles
- Rules for creating intranet content
- Writing for the intranet
- Empowering employees to create the RIGHT CONTENT
- Dos and Don'ts for CMS's and SharePoint
This deck brings you 32 Uses of Microsoft in the Classroom. Be inspired, and explore the ideas in more depth at our Blog Post http://blogs.msdn.com/b/austeachers/archive/2015/01/29/32-engaging-ways-to-use-microsoft-in-your-classroom.aspx
What Does The Classroom of the Future Look Like?Douglas Kiang
Educators worldwide are looking at diverse models for the future classroom, ranging from the most innovative college and university spaces, to models of industry and dot-com startups. Perhaps more important than what the future learning space looks like, however, is what students are being asked to do to demonstrate their learning. In this talk, catch a glimpse of what a future classroom might look like, in both its curriculum and its physical space.
eSchool Builder is an online learning mgt tool or learning mgt system. Our teachers are using it to publish online coursework or to provide an online supplemental resource area for students.
CAFE(Consistently active, flexible and experiential) workshopAndrew Middleton
With co-presenters: Jeff Waldock; Tim Jones; David Greenfield; David Smith; Ian Glover; Sinead O'Toole; Ciara O'Hagan; Colin Beard
Participants were invited to engage with the Spaces for Learning Toolkit prior to the workshop, specifically briefing screencasts and papers about four types of student-centred active learning approaches being developed by the University’s Future Learning Spaces Academic Interest Group: SCALE-UP classrooms, Stand Up Pedagogy, Technology Enabled Learning Labs, and the Immersive Think Tank Project Space.
The need for consistent taught experiences in response to student concerns about uneven learning experiences is indisputable. However, excellent teaching is flexible, being responsive to its dynamic context including the needs of students, the curriculum, signature pedagogies (Shulman, 2005), disciplinary culture, and opportunities to situate learning (Brown et al., 1989). Good innovative academic practices engage students through active, co-operative, and challenging methods (Gibbs, 2010). However, if consistency is misread as rigidity, and teaching excellence misread as teacher-centred delivery, learning may be inadvertently re-consigned to the Instruction Paradigm (Barr & Tagg, 1995) of 19th century Industrial Age classrooms and societal demands (Scott-Webber, 2004). We must critically assess what we mean by consistently good student experiences so that our future spaces are designed to challenge and stimulate inspirational learning.
The Future Learning Spaces Academic Interest Group has successfully developed a range of evidence-informed spaces for student-centred active learning and is working closely with the University’s directorates to evaluate them and establish quality standards for benchmarking existing classrooms and other formal and non-formal learning spaces.
Using a pop-up Stand Up Classroom pedagogy, you will discover ‘whiteboard learning’ through collaborative problem-solving, mapping, listing and sorting type activities. You will experience the Stand Up Classroom and discover why it keeps you and your peers motivated. You will work in triads to tackle problems from the SCALE-UP classroom; and you will experience the methods of the Technology Enabled Learning Lab and the Immersive Think Thank Project Space. The future learning space, in its many forms, is a commitment to keep learning vibrant, meaningful, applied and connected. You will take away a good understanding of built pedagogy (Monahan, 2000) and how space, learning and teaching interconnect.
Participants are invited to become Future Learning Spaces group members.
Ragtag leadership presentation - BarCamp Auckland 2010Simon Young
I launched my not-yet-written book, Ragtag Leadership, at BarCamp Auckland on July 17, 2010. Got some great feedback from some smart people that will help shape the book. You can do so too at www.ragtagleadership.com.
How do our work spaces impact our productivity? How can we enhance collaboration within (and across) geographically dispersed teams? This presentation merely poses these questions, provides some links to further information on the topics, and serves as a leaping-off point for discussion.
The Classroom of the Future at Brightspace IgniteD2L Barry
Presentation at Minnesota Brightspace Ignite on April 24, 2015, by Sheri Hutchinson, Normandale Community College and Karen LaPlant, Hennepin Technical College
The concept of e-school consultancy for schools is developed
basically to provide a comprehensive and meticulous school
management solution with 'Sunower School' brand to the various
owners of the schools where they don't require any associating
partners as school consultants for physical management.
It is on-line school management consultancy which allows the school
owner / management and principal to manage all departments of
school with sheer excellence. It covers all the aspects of yearly
planning, implementation and control of school activities which can be
well managed by the principal of the school through our self developed
ERP system.
We neither act as a customary advice based school consultant nor
provide school management software, rather we support the partner
sharing our enriched experiential knowledge and mentoring through
our web based school ERP system to manage schools for result
driven functioning.
We manage entire school remotely through e-dimensions with 24x7
academic and technical support to the principal as we actually
manage our own schools.
Classroom of the Future - Technology and BeyondMaritza Heuvel
Delivered at Innovate Schools 2014, 9 October 2014.
***
The use of educational technology inside and outside the classroom is changing the way we teach. New models like the"flipped classroom” have emerged as more effective ways to transfer knowledge and engage learners meaningfully.
However, technology is just one aspect of the learning environment in classrooms. In this talk, I touch on the design of physical classroom space, and question the very need for constructs like grade divisions and classroom walls.
I touch on examples such as the School of One in New York, visuals of fresh classroom designs and South African experiments, like Judi Francisco's JustBlendit! experiment at Micklefield Primary.
LiveTiles provides an update on the current digital landscape for those in Professional Learning and Technology. We show examples of what schools are doing to achieve modern learning outcomes and create digital classrooms. This is useful for those interested in driving greater collaboration and productivity outcomes across their school(s)
For more info: https://www.livetiles.nyc/blog/classrooms-of-the-future-microsoft-office-365-event-at-livetiles/
Bentley Information Mobility update - seminar in Estonia 9/2014Timo Tuukkanen
A brief introduction to Bentley information mobility solutions for infrastructure life cycle management. Presented in Estonian Bentley users seminar organized by Cad-Susteemide Ou - September 2014.
Described as “Solutions Partner” by Microsoft in its Partner ecosystem
Since 1993 a Hi –End Technology Solutions Company
Leading Microsoft’s Azure circle Partner Program across Western Zone :: A4
Awarded Master Service Agreement by Microsoft for Delivering Solution Centric & Consulting Engagements – Structured Roadmap Rollouts for India’s TOP SIs and ISVs
Aspiring Architects Program “ASAP”
Azure Architecting and Technical Readiness
Azure IT Pro Technical Readiness
SQL Server 2012 Architecting and Technical Readiness
SharePoint 2013 Architecting and Technical Readiness
Microsoft’s Online Technology Suite Architecting and Technical Readiness
Microsoft Azure & O365 Sales & Presales – Business Value Prop and Technical Value Prop Readiness
Azure Circle Partner ; launched Azure Global Boot Camp in India Mumbai
What Does The Classroom of the Future Look Like?Douglas Kiang
Educators worldwide are looking at diverse models for the future classroom, ranging from the most innovative college and university spaces, to models of industry and dot-com startups. Perhaps more important than what the future learning space looks like, however, is what students are being asked to do to demonstrate their learning. In this talk, catch a glimpse of what a future classroom might look like, in both its curriculum and its physical space.
eSchool Builder is an online learning mgt tool or learning mgt system. Our teachers are using it to publish online coursework or to provide an online supplemental resource area for students.
CAFE(Consistently active, flexible and experiential) workshopAndrew Middleton
With co-presenters: Jeff Waldock; Tim Jones; David Greenfield; David Smith; Ian Glover; Sinead O'Toole; Ciara O'Hagan; Colin Beard
Participants were invited to engage with the Spaces for Learning Toolkit prior to the workshop, specifically briefing screencasts and papers about four types of student-centred active learning approaches being developed by the University’s Future Learning Spaces Academic Interest Group: SCALE-UP classrooms, Stand Up Pedagogy, Technology Enabled Learning Labs, and the Immersive Think Tank Project Space.
The need for consistent taught experiences in response to student concerns about uneven learning experiences is indisputable. However, excellent teaching is flexible, being responsive to its dynamic context including the needs of students, the curriculum, signature pedagogies (Shulman, 2005), disciplinary culture, and opportunities to situate learning (Brown et al., 1989). Good innovative academic practices engage students through active, co-operative, and challenging methods (Gibbs, 2010). However, if consistency is misread as rigidity, and teaching excellence misread as teacher-centred delivery, learning may be inadvertently re-consigned to the Instruction Paradigm (Barr & Tagg, 1995) of 19th century Industrial Age classrooms and societal demands (Scott-Webber, 2004). We must critically assess what we mean by consistently good student experiences so that our future spaces are designed to challenge and stimulate inspirational learning.
The Future Learning Spaces Academic Interest Group has successfully developed a range of evidence-informed spaces for student-centred active learning and is working closely with the University’s directorates to evaluate them and establish quality standards for benchmarking existing classrooms and other formal and non-formal learning spaces.
Using a pop-up Stand Up Classroom pedagogy, you will discover ‘whiteboard learning’ through collaborative problem-solving, mapping, listing and sorting type activities. You will experience the Stand Up Classroom and discover why it keeps you and your peers motivated. You will work in triads to tackle problems from the SCALE-UP classroom; and you will experience the methods of the Technology Enabled Learning Lab and the Immersive Think Thank Project Space. The future learning space, in its many forms, is a commitment to keep learning vibrant, meaningful, applied and connected. You will take away a good understanding of built pedagogy (Monahan, 2000) and how space, learning and teaching interconnect.
Participants are invited to become Future Learning Spaces group members.
Ragtag leadership presentation - BarCamp Auckland 2010Simon Young
I launched my not-yet-written book, Ragtag Leadership, at BarCamp Auckland on July 17, 2010. Got some great feedback from some smart people that will help shape the book. You can do so too at www.ragtagleadership.com.
How do our work spaces impact our productivity? How can we enhance collaboration within (and across) geographically dispersed teams? This presentation merely poses these questions, provides some links to further information on the topics, and serves as a leaping-off point for discussion.
The Classroom of the Future at Brightspace IgniteD2L Barry
Presentation at Minnesota Brightspace Ignite on April 24, 2015, by Sheri Hutchinson, Normandale Community College and Karen LaPlant, Hennepin Technical College
The concept of e-school consultancy for schools is developed
basically to provide a comprehensive and meticulous school
management solution with 'Sunower School' brand to the various
owners of the schools where they don't require any associating
partners as school consultants for physical management.
It is on-line school management consultancy which allows the school
owner / management and principal to manage all departments of
school with sheer excellence. It covers all the aspects of yearly
planning, implementation and control of school activities which can be
well managed by the principal of the school through our self developed
ERP system.
We neither act as a customary advice based school consultant nor
provide school management software, rather we support the partner
sharing our enriched experiential knowledge and mentoring through
our web based school ERP system to manage schools for result
driven functioning.
We manage entire school remotely through e-dimensions with 24x7
academic and technical support to the principal as we actually
manage our own schools.
Classroom of the Future - Technology and BeyondMaritza Heuvel
Delivered at Innovate Schools 2014, 9 October 2014.
***
The use of educational technology inside and outside the classroom is changing the way we teach. New models like the"flipped classroom” have emerged as more effective ways to transfer knowledge and engage learners meaningfully.
However, technology is just one aspect of the learning environment in classrooms. In this talk, I touch on the design of physical classroom space, and question the very need for constructs like grade divisions and classroom walls.
I touch on examples such as the School of One in New York, visuals of fresh classroom designs and South African experiments, like Judi Francisco's JustBlendit! experiment at Micklefield Primary.
LiveTiles provides an update on the current digital landscape for those in Professional Learning and Technology. We show examples of what schools are doing to achieve modern learning outcomes and create digital classrooms. This is useful for those interested in driving greater collaboration and productivity outcomes across their school(s)
For more info: https://www.livetiles.nyc/blog/classrooms-of-the-future-microsoft-office-365-event-at-livetiles/
Bentley Information Mobility update - seminar in Estonia 9/2014Timo Tuukkanen
A brief introduction to Bentley information mobility solutions for infrastructure life cycle management. Presented in Estonian Bentley users seminar organized by Cad-Susteemide Ou - September 2014.
Described as “Solutions Partner” by Microsoft in its Partner ecosystem
Since 1993 a Hi –End Technology Solutions Company
Leading Microsoft’s Azure circle Partner Program across Western Zone :: A4
Awarded Master Service Agreement by Microsoft for Delivering Solution Centric & Consulting Engagements – Structured Roadmap Rollouts for India’s TOP SIs and ISVs
Aspiring Architects Program “ASAP”
Azure Architecting and Technical Readiness
Azure IT Pro Technical Readiness
SQL Server 2012 Architecting and Technical Readiness
SharePoint 2013 Architecting and Technical Readiness
Microsoft’s Online Technology Suite Architecting and Technical Readiness
Microsoft Azure & O365 Sales & Presales – Business Value Prop and Technical Value Prop Readiness
Azure Circle Partner ; launched Azure Global Boot Camp in India Mumbai
Sharepoint, Office365 and Yammer for Effective PMOFaisal Masood
Sharepoint, Office365 and Yammer for Effective PMO.
a. Using Content Type to organize your PMO Structure
b. Effective Site, List and Library Templates for Project Sites
c. Using Yammer for external projects with vendors and customers
d. Project Request Process using InfoPath Web forms and SharePoint Designer workflows
Knowlege Management is a complex undertaking that must meet special requirements and needs for each new project. Flexible platforms covering different aspects of this "knowledge sharing" goal are needed as the technological underpinning.
This talk presents two platforms and their individual features
* Semantic MediaWiki
* Microsoft SharePoint
Concrete examples from professional practice illustrate their strength and weaknesses.
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KM ist ein komplexes Unterfangen, das in jedem Unternehmen spezielle Anforderungen und Bedürfnisse erfüllen muss. Um diese Aufgabe mit technischen Mitteln zu unterstützen, bedarf es flexibler Plattformen, die unterschiedlichste Aspekte dieses "Knowledge Sharing" abdecken können.
In diesem Vortrag werden zwei dieser Plattformen und ihre individuellen Möglichkeiten vorgestellt
* Semantic MediaWiki
* Microsoft SharePoint
und anhand von konkreten Beispielen aus der beruflichen Praxis illustriert.
Penn State scales static Drupal to new heightsMediacurrent
The Penn State News team had an ambitious goal to build a faster and more dynamic site by adopting a decoupled Drupal architecture. Not an easy task. Gatsby and Mediacurrent partnered up to deliver on the challenge and successfully scale Penn State.
Develop an Enterprise-wide Cloud Adoption Strategy – Chris MerriganAmazon Web Services
Taking a cloud first approach requires a different approach than you probably had to consider for your initial few workloads in the cloud. You’ll be deploying hybrid environments, and that means taking a broad view of your IT strategy, architecture, and organisational design. In this session, we cover how the CAF framework offers practical guidance and comprehensive guidelines to enterprise organisations, particularly around roles, governance, and efficiency.
“The standard B2B operating model was designed to optimize vendor’s “push” of prepackaged products to customers via large, up-front deals. The goal was usually to get the maximum amount of product assets transferred from the vendor’s balance sheet to the customer’s balance sheet in one big order. But today the assumption that a customer can determine in advance exactly what it needs and then take on all the responsibility for the level of value that it gets from a complex business product is becoming less acceptable. Customers need their suppliers to step up and get into the outcome game. The old B2B model doesn’t make Sense in digitalization. “
[J.B. Wood]
The statement above forecasts that the whole operating model of companies like Ericsson, from marketing to product development, sales and customer support will change. Also many other industry reports argue that a combination Digital Distribution, Digital Products and Cloud Practices will have disruptive impacts on how we do business in the near future.
In this session, we will have an outside-in approach to Cloud technology and “cloud first” approaches for our future business success. We’ll focus on non-technical stakeholders.
A Business Perspective on Building SharePoint 2013 Solutions on Windows AzureChristian Buckley
Presentation prepared for the San Francisco Azure User Group that walks through the latest features in SharePoint 2013, shares some insight into how Axceler is using Windows Azure to develop hybrid and cloud-based solutions, and outlines opportunities for developers to create Azure-based solutions for SharePoint 2013 and Office 365.
GHD iConnect - our intranet for the futureMaree Courts
GHD's journey to build an intranet for the future. Moving from a legacy Lotus Notes platform to a brand new shiny SharePoint 2013 environment was an exciting undertaking.
Merging microservices architecture with SOA practicesChris Haddad
Microservice architecture promises to pragmatically overcome service development hurdles by using a single responsibility pattern (SRP) and full-stack development teams. Do we now throw out SOA and integration practices? In this session, Chris Haddad will describe how you can rapidly build systems by adapting SOA practices, extending your DevOps toolchest, and defining microservices. You will learn:
How to properly define, decouple, and size a microservice.
What DevOps practices overcome microservice deployment roadblocks
When microservices create fragile instead of antifragile building blocks
UC 2015 - How Government Departments are improving agile working in a secure ...Kahootz
This presentation was used to explain how the UK Government has used a Cloud First policy to break away from the need to commission “special for government” IT in order to benefit from innovative, and more affordable, cloud commodity services served over the public internet. This has meant a fresh look at security accreditation and adoption of COTS applications that can be deployed in minutes and not months or sometimes years. Cloud collaboration services, that have the correct security credentials, have become very popular and John will provide case study examples and best practice advice as to how public and private sector organisations have introduced new and effective collaborative ways of working.
Microsoft Azure - Planning your move to the cloudScott Cameron
Cloud computing trends and drivers and how IaaS, PaaS and SaaS address business needs, allow organizations to scale quickly and flexibly and how Microsoft does "Cloud."
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Indigenous History Month Art Activity
In June 2022, we got together virtually to celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Month by working our way through a month-long art project. Each person was to think of an Indigenous artist they admire, research the artist and their work, and create a piece of art for themselves influenced by the artist they had chosen. Throughout the month we presented on these artists and why we connect to their art and discussed important topics like appropriation vs. appreciation. We learned a lot about Indigenous artists in Canada and about each other and ourselves. The art project allowed people to connect with their heritage as well as Indigenous peoples; it was as much a research and art project as it was a team-building and self-reflection activity.
Unpacking Power Hierarchies in Students as Partners PracticesBCcampus
Slides from a session with Roselynn Verwoord, Conan Veitch, Yahlnaaw, and Heather Smith from the Symposium 2018 held on October 24, 2018 in Vancouver, B.C.
Building Canada’s Zed Cred: Challenges and OpportunitiesBCcampus
Slides from the panel session with Amanda Coolidge, Krista Lambert, and Rajiv Jhangiani from the 15th Annual, Open Education Conference held on October 10 – 12, 2018 in Niagara Falls, New York
Connecting Students with People who Care(er): Post-Secondary Professionals as...BCcampus
Presentation by Candy Ho, Faculty, Educational Studies, Kwantlen Polytechnic University and Dr. Cindy Xin
Director of Research, Simon Fraser University
Increasingly students begin their post-secondary experience with a career in mind, and two recent studies (Environics Research Group, 2011; Ho, 2017) suggest that those paths are largely influenced by educators (e.g. Faculty) before a student even considers visiting a career centre. Consequently, these professionals have the inherent capacity to extend their care for students beyond their teaching roles: as Career Influencers, defined by the EdD study as individuals working in a higher education institution who informally provide career-related advice, guidance, and/or counselling to prospective and current students and/or alumni.
This session has two goals. It aims to help attendees recognize their influence in student career development, and consider how they can incorporate career development components into their teaching practice. Findings and implications from Ho’s (2017) EdD study will serve as a backdrop of the session (research questions are included at the end*), while attendees are guided through reflective and discussion activities that enhance the awareness of their influence in student career development.
Current planned activities include having the attendees:
-Reflect on their “constellation of life roles” (Magnusson, 2014) and how roles, events, and experiences contribute to their approach as educators
-Consider how their current activities and interactions with students (e.g., curriculum, office hours conversations) help students develop employability skills
-Discuss their impressions on the notion of the ‘Everyday Career Influencer’, pondering on questions such as:
How do they currently serve as Career Influencers and demonstrate a sense of care for student career development?
How might they further their practice as Career Influencers?
What opportunities and/or challenges do they face as Career Influencers within their institutions? What can they do to take advantage and/or overcome them?
-EdD study research questions and sub-questions:
How do post-secondary education professionals conceive their influence in student career development?
How do they conceptualize the term “career”?
How do they see their role as having an impact on student career development?
How do they see themselves as individuals as having an impact on student career development?
What resources and/or competencies do they believe are important in furthering their impact on student career development?
Festival of Learning 2018 - May 28 – 30 at the Pinnacle Hotel Harbourfront in Vancouver, B.C.
Presentation by Ian Linkletter, Learning Technology Specialist, UBC
Presenting about UBC’s efforts to implement and evaluate team chat as a learning technology for online and blended courses. Team chat (like Slack) is a transformative communication and collaboration technology, combining threaded discussions with real-time chat in an intuitive and flexible way. Features like persistent history, advanced search capability, file sharing, typing status, mobile apps, and emoji reactions add up to a versatile tool that is still easy to use.
Research shows how timely interactions with instructors, collaboration with classmates, and a sense of community can enhance teaching and learning. This is particularly important in an online learning environment. Team chat has given our students a direct communication channel to their instructor and each other, helping them connect, ask questions, seek clarification, collaborate, and build community.
Since 2016, the Faculty of Education has been piloting an open source team chat application called Mattermost on a UBC-hosted server. Unlike Slack or Microsoft Teams, which are both cloud-hosted outside of Canada, Mattermost allows us to keep student data secure in compliance with BC’s Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FIPPA). Mattermost has been used in over 20 course sections across the faculties of Education, Arts, and Science. As of December 2017, the UBC Mattermost pilot consists of 100 daily active users, 300 monthly active users, and almost 70,000 posts.
Attendees will learn (and chat) about:
• Ways team chat can enhance learning
• How team chat has been applied in real use cases including online program cohorts, learning communities, and research teams
• The relationship between secure, safe, transparent platforms and academic freedom
Mattermost will be blended into the session, allowing attendees to choose the conversation(s) they wish to join, participate in real-time, network with colleagues, and carry on chatting after the Festival of Learning concludes.
Festival of Learning 2018 - May 28 – 30 at the Pinnacle Hotel Harbourfront in Vancouver, B.C.
Cultivating trust and Emotional Safety in Educational EnvironmentsBCcampus
Presentation by: Steven Bishop, Learning Designer, Douglas College, Ross Laird, Educational Consultant, Laird Associates, Leva Lee, Manager, BCcampus, Kathryn McNaughton, Hope Miller, Online Learning Designer/Trainer, Douglas College, Sandra Polushin, Coordinator / Faculty, Douglas College
Many educational institutions are grappling with the troubling rise of mental health challenges within their communities. Issues such as depression and anxiety are becoming increasingly common not only within the student population but also among instructors and educational administrators, many of whom find their collegial environments to be fraught with new hurdles involving the care and wellness of people.
Bedrock human values such as belonging, trust, and emotional safety are becoming harder to develop and sustain in educational environments undergoing turmoil and change from a variety of influences. How might we preserve and nurture these values? How might we commit to practices that cultivate the wellness and well-being of our colleagues and communities? How might we commit to environments of authentic caring in which people feel emotionally safe and valued?
Over the past year, a small group of practitioners at several local institutions (BCcampus, Douglas College, Vancouver Community College) has been working on projects designed to encourage emotional care and wellness. In this interactive session on the theme of "Mental Health for all within and across our organizations", these practitioners will each share the hurdles and rewards of their process. The purpose of the session will be to provide participants with perspectives and tools to use in approaching themes of care and wellness at their own institutions -- with colleagues, students, and community partners.
The experiential session will be informed by the practice, theory, and research currently being conducted at the partner institutions involved in these projects. Participants will hear about common hurdles involved in promoting the care and wellness of people, will hear perspectives about navigating the complex terrain of human relationships, and will practice tools and ideas for moving forward with their own initiatives.
Festival of Learning 2018 - May 28 – 30 at the Pinnacle Hotel Harbourfront in Vancouver, B.C.
An adventure into creation of OER: A STEM wiki projectBCcampus
Presentation by Pamini Thangarajah, Associate Professor, Mount Royal University
Removing financial barriers to undergraduate education is crucial, and the creation of open educational resources (OER) will directly help. And not only would the resources developed benefit the students as they are taking the class, but also by making the material open, it could be used by other faculty and students, not only at your institution but beyond.
In an appreciation of my financially unburden educational experience, I have explored what I can do to help the students to access the required learning materials. There is no open text(s) available that can be used for this course. To this end, I have created the resources in an open educational environment.
In this session, I will be walking you through my experience of creating open educational resources for a mathematics course at the Mount Royal University, Calgary.
Festival of Learning 2018 - May 28 – 30 at the Pinnacle Hotel Harbourfront in Vancouver, B.C.
Analysis of UFV Student Learning Patterns: Ratio of Instructor-Directed (In-C...BCcampus
Presentation by Samantha Pattridge and Hannah Peters (UFV)
Symposium 2017: Scholarly Teaching & Learning in Post-Secondary Education
The Symposium is an annual one-day event presented by the BCTLC and BCcampus that combines presentations, discussions, and networking with colleagues who share an interest in scholarly teaching and learning in post-secondary education.
When: Nov. 6, 2017
Where: Simon Fraser University – Harbour Centre, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Encouraging Folio-Thinking: Capturing the Learning with e-PortfolioBCcampus
Presentation by Claire Hay, Associate Professor of Geography, University of the Fraser Valley, Michelle Johnson, Educational Developer, University of the Fraser Valley and Mary Gene Saudelli, Faculty, Teaching and Learning, University of the Fraser Valley
Symposium 2017: Scholarly Teaching & Learning in Post-Secondary Education
The Symposium is an annual one-day event presented by the BCTLC and BCcampus that combines presentations, discussions, and networking with colleagues who share an interest in scholarly teaching and learning in post-secondary education.
When: Nov. 6, 2017
Where: Simon Fraser University – Harbour Centre, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Presentation by Shauna Jones, Senior Lecturer, Simon Fraser University
Symposium 2017: Scholarly Teaching & Learning in Post-Secondary Education
The Symposium is an annual one-day event presented by the BCTLC and BCcampus that combines presentations, discussions, and networking with colleagues who share an interest in scholarly teaching and learning in post-secondary education.
When: Nov. 6, 2017
Where: Simon Fraser University – Harbour Centre, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Scholarly Teaching to SoTL: Exploring the Shared "S" BCcampus
Symposium 2017 Keynote - Dr. Nancy Chick,
University Chair in Teaching and Learning, University of Calgary
Symposium 2017: Scholarly Teaching & Learning in Post-Secondary Education
The Symposium is an annual one-day event presented by the BCTLC and BCcampus that combines presentations, discussions, and networking with colleagues who share an interest in scholarly teaching and learning in post-secondary education.
When: Nov. 6, 2017
Where: Simon Fraser University – Harbour Centre, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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1. Creating Space for
Collaborative Leadership
Brian Case – Manager, Infrastructure Services
Denise Goudy – Client Services Manager
Ian MacKinnon – Client Services Manager
Cathy van Soest – Client Services Manager
Lawrence Parisotto – Director, Collaborative Programs
and Shared Services Initiatives
Thursday, November 14, 2013
2. Creating Space for Collaborative Leadership
Agenda
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Levels of Collaboration
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Collaborative Programs, Services & Projects
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Connector System – Data Exchange
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Transcript Exchange
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BCcampus Infrastructure
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Summary
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Questions
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Levels of Collaboration
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the realm of collaboration
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drivers of collaboration
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degrees of collaboration
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barriers to collaboration
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a process for collaboration
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success factors
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and finally examples of collaboration that leads to
systemic technology solutions
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4. Creating Space for Collaborative Leadership
Realm of Collaboration
Post-Secondary System
Institution C
Institution B
Institution A
Service
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Drivers of Collaboration
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Cost reduction
Establishing relationships
Increased or better services
Streamlined processes
Leveraging enterprise solutions
Leveraging mutual resources
Lowering administrative costs
Information sharing
Getting Started in Cross-Boundary Collaboration: What State CIOs Need to Know. NASCIO. 2007
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Degrees of Collaboration
Achieving a Common Purpose and Mutual Benefit
High
Low
Adapted from: Collaboration for a Change: Definitions, Decision-making Models, Roles, and Collaboration Process Guide. Himmelman, AT. 2002
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7. Creating Space for Collaborative Leadership
Process for Collaboration
Shared Services
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8. Creating Space for Collaborative Leadership
Process for Collaboration
Collaborative Programs, Services, Projects
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9. Creating Space for Collaborative Leadership
Collaboration Success Factors
6 key aspects to collaboration formation
• Forging initial agreements
• Building leadership
• Building legitimacy
• Building trust
• Managing conflict
• Planning
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10. Creating Space for
Collaborative Leadership
Collaborative Programs, Services and
Projects
Denise Goudy
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11. Creating Space for Collaborative Leadership
Collaborative Programs
Applied Business Technology
Northern Collaborative for
Information Technology
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13. Creating Space for Collaborative Leadership
Collaborative Projects
Current Projects in 2013/14
•Health Care Assistant
•Elder Abuse Prevention Strategy
•Care Management Competencies
•Interior Health Authority/Colleges
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14. Creating Space for
Collaborative Leadership
Connector System – Data Exchange
Ian MacKinnon
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15. Creating Space for Collaborative Leadership
Connector System – Data Exchange
Connector transactions
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GetCourses – CoursesBC
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GetCourses – CoursesBC
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GetAcademicRecord – MyCreditsBC
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ValidateStudent – Collaborative ABT / MyCreditsBC
ApplyBC
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Full Service Institutions
Transcript Exchange
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Transcript Batches – Receive / Deliver
Future Development
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Connector System – Data Exchange
Current Architecture
Mule Enterprise Service Bus
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Hub (formerly “Capitol”)
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Agents (formerly “Embassies”)
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MuleMQ – handles message queuing using Java-based JMIS queue
Transcript Exchange
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Introduction of Web Services to connector system
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Connector System – Data Exchange
Current Architecture
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18. Creating Space for Collaborative Leadership
Connector System – Data Exchange
Future Direction
ESB vs. Web Services
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MuleMQ no longer well supported
WebServices have conquered the world:
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Banking, Stock trades, Governments, etc.
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Better security model
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Connector System – Data Exchange
Move to VM architecture
•Retire agent boxes – most near end of service life
•Propose to have institutions provision a VM for BCcampus connector
•Clear responsibility lines through web service contracts
•Web service security to replace home-grown system
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Connector System – Data Exchange
Standards-based data descriptions
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Retire home-grown schemas
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PESC Admissions Application – in progress
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PESC College Transcript – in progress
Future data exchange services
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High School Transcripts
BCcampus role in connector system
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Web Service deployable modules
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BCcampus to become more a resource than a software developer
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Example containers
Sourceforge public projects
Crowdsourcing
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21. Creating Space for
Collaborative Leadership
Transcript Exchange
Cathy van Soest
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Transcript Exchange
TranscriptsBC: Serving BC Citizens
Goal
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Single Service
for Transcript
Ordering
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Transcript Exchange
Getting There
Collaborative leadership
and the
BCcampus Connector
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24. Creating Space for Collaborative Leadership
Transcript Exchange
Collaborative Leadership Examples
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25. Creating Space for Collaborative Leadership
Transcript Exchange
Phase 1: 2010-13
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26. Creating Space for Collaborative Leadership
Transcript Exchange
Phase 2
Implementation & On-going Operational Plan in Development
Focus:
Secure PDF Transcript Delivery
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27. Creating Space for
Collaborative Leadership
Enabling Infrastructure
Brian Case
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Infrastructure
Our Relationship with SFU
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PASBC and WebCT in 2004
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Connector project 2005
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VMware in 2009
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Moved to SFU ESX Cluster in 2012
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29. Creating Space for Collaborative Leadership
Infrastructure
Benefits
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Purchasing Power
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Access to skilled staff
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Developers
DBA’s
BCNET
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Secure Data Centre
Next Slide: Infrastructure overview
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Infrastructure
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Infrastructure
Flexible Delivery Models
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Adobe Connect – Share everything
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Licenses
Server and Network
Support
Moodle
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Dedicated VM’s
D2L
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Vendor hosted
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Summary:
BCcampus can provide the environment and the opportunity for
collaborative leadership
The range of opportunities is endless with a proven infrastructure,
collaborative programs, services and projects
Collaborative leadership can occur at the individual level, the
institutional level, or across partners in a facilitated environment.
Where can collaboration take you? As an IT leader in BC’s postsecondary system?
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34. Creating Space for Collaborative Leadership
Contact us
Brian Case
Manager, Infrastructure Services
bcase@bccampus.ca
Denise Goudy
Client Services Manager
Collaborative Programs and Services
dgoudy@bccampus.ca
Ian MacKinnon
Client Services Manager
ApplyBC, Moodle, Connector
imackinnon@bccampus.ca
Cathy van Soest
Client Services Manager
TranscriptsBC, CoursesBC, MyCreditsBC
cvansoest@bccampus.ca
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Editor's Notes
“Collaboration” is a term that’s often used yet means many different things in many different contexts. Yet, a fundamental cause of failed collaborative projects or partnerships is a lack of understanding of:
collaboration itself and
the process of collaboration.
To demonstrate collaborative leadership, collaborative innovation, or even simply collaboration firstly requires a better understanding of collaboration, and models and processes of collaboration.
For this presentation, we’ll quickly look at:
the realm of collaboration
drivers of collaboration
degrees of collaboration
barriers to collaboration
a process for collaboration
success factors
and finally examples of collaboration that leads to systemic technology solutions
The Realm of Collaboration:
Most collaboration is considered to occur in an immediate way – your needs, the solutions for your needs, needs of the people you work with, your department, etc. It’s not a selfish perspective – it’s the realm of immediacy.
Sometimes an institutional service group needs to be involved though to help you with your immediate needs, e.g. IT Services and so the collaboration is between you, or your department (a vertical) and a service provider (horizontal) of your organization.
More often though, there are drivers that necessitate a broader solution, or there really is better efficiency for a collaborative solution when it extends across the horizontal of the whole organization, e.g., Institution A. This is the realm where many consider that collaboration that they are involved in exists, and where many see collaborative solutions to exist.
But what about inter-institutional collaborations, when two or more institutions need to collaborate to address an issue with a common solution? Or what about systemic collaboration, when a systemic issue needs to be addressed with a systemic solution? This is the realm that systemic groups or agencies such as BCcampus, BCCAT, HEITBC, etc. see.
System collaborations or collaborative services may not be easily developed though. In some cases such collaborative initiatives may be led by:
an individual institution of the collaborative group – but may involve issues of time, resources, perceived conflict of interest
a consortium of institutions who have formed a collaboration – but may involve issues of coordination, governance, decision making
a vendor or other third party – but may involve issues of cost
Collaboration can also be led and facilitated by a sponsor organization acting as a collaborative agent – a system-wide group acting as a neutral third party as convener, catalyst, and capacity builder for the collaborative initiative.
Key point: When individual institutions approach horizontal collaboration they need to extend from their immediate realm to the multi-organizational or perhaps even systemic realm.
Many public agencies are increasingly asked to engage in, need to engage in, or are engaging in collaborative ventures outside their realm of immediacy – these collaborations are ‘cross-boundary’ or ‘horizontal’ partnerships and collaborations.
Horizontal collaboration usually refers to “an initiative involving a number of organizations, departments or government agencies or ministries that must address issues requiring the crossing of jurisdictional boundaries to develop solutions”. (Facilitating Health and Education Sector Collaboration in Support of Comprehensive School Health. Pan Canadian Joint Consortium for School Health. Canadian Public Health Association. 2010) Available online: http://journal.cpha.ca/index.php/cjph/article/view/1912)
There are many drivers that may necessitate a cross-boundary collaborative approach such as:
Cost reduction
Establishing relationships
Increased or better services
Streamlined processes
Leveraging enterprise solutions
Leveraging mutual resources
Lowering administrative costs
Information sharing
Change strategies are difficult enough within an organization and require a common vision and purpose to succeed.
Horizontal collaborations in a multi-organizational or systemic realm require organizations to work together as a coalition with common purpose. This coalition is usually referred to as a partnership or a collaborative.
There is actually a continuum of coalition strategies when multiple organizations work together – there are typically five that are listed:
networking – exchange of information for mutual benefit
valuable and informative, but often lacks outcomes
coordinating - exchanging information for mutual benefit, and altering activities accordingly to achieve a common purpose
cooperating - exchanging information for mutual benefit, altering activities and sharing resources accordingly to achieve a common purpose
collaborating - exchanging information for mutual benefit, altering activities and sharing resources accordingly, and enhancing the capacity of another organization to achieve a common purpose
integrating – when the coalition creates its own structure to manage its activities
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Collaboration is not an easy process.
Note that as the degree of collaboration increases, the barriers to effective collaboration increase - three powerful and common barriers impede collaborative efforts. Success or failure is determined by the interaction of these three dynamic forces: Time, Trust and Turf
Time: It takes time and effort to develop a working partnership.
Sometimes it might be faster to complete a task without relying on partners to participate and contribute, but in the long run, collaboration can result in better, longer-lasting outcomes.
Trust: Effective collaborations require trust among partners. Trust in others enables partners to share benefits and resources and to take on challenges.
Turf: Collaboration works only when all partners both contribute to and benefit from the effort.
When partners perceive an imbalance, imagined or real, tied to the benefits of the collaboration, the process of working together might stall, or the partner who feels disadvantaged might leave the collaborative.
Also, relationships and processes move from informal to very formal.
From: Community Collaboration. Available online: http://www.actforyouth.net/youth_development/communities/collaboration.cfm
Adapted from: Health Syst Lead. 1996 Dec;3(10):13-6. Collaboration and the three Ts: time, trust and turf constraints. Himmelman AT.
BCcampus has developed a business process for collaborative shared services. The BCcampus shared service model has been adopted to develop, implement and operate innovative business and sourcing models for systemic, scalable, sustainable (s3) shared services.
An educational shared service is a function, process, or activity performed by a provider organization on behalf of and in support of two or more user organizations. BCcampus facilitates several distinctive models which tend to build from a multi-institutional system model.
More specifically, goals of educational technology and applications services are to:
optimize the benefits of educational technology applications and significantly reduce costs of hosting and service delivery
maximize institutional access to educational technologies while minimizing redundancy
enable secure exchange of institutional student information system (SIS) data to support delivery of programs and courses
research and pilot new and innovative educational technologies
complement collaborative and partnership program arrangements between institutions
Examples: Moodle, Adobe Connect, Kaltura, etc.
Similarly, BCcampus provides support for online collaborative programs, learning services and collaborative projects.
The BCcampus collaborative service model has been adopted to develop, implement and operate such collaborative endeavours in an integrative planning process by acting as a catalyst, convener and capacity-builder (c3) for multi-institutional and/or multi-stakeholder collaborations.
Goals once again are top respond to challenges within the higher education system and to take a leadership role to:
provide improved access and flexibility to off-campus students
provide collaborative programs and services that a single institution may not be able to
significantly reduce costs of service delivery
maximize institutional access to programs and services while minimizing redundancy
enable secure exchange of institutional student information system (SIS) data to support delivery of programs and services
develop systemic collaborative and partnership program arrangements between institutions
convene and facilitate the process of collaboration on behalf of the stakeholder groups
There are 6 key aspects to collaboration formation
Forging initial agreements
Building leadership
Building legitimacy
Building trust
Managing conflict
Planning
From Bryson, J., Crosby, B., Stone, M. The Design and Implementation of Cross-Sector Collaborations: Propositions from the Literature. Public Administration Review, December, 2006.
Moodle:
11 participating institutions
1 BCcampus hosting
1 Application support by Lambda Solutions
knowledge, expertise and application support
Kaltura:
5 participating institutions
1 large system partner hosting
$ more affordable for smaller institutions
knowledge, expertise and application support