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Blackboard Collaborate ?? STEVE ROWE'S VIRTUAL OFFICE 23/08/2014 4:11:33 PM
Unleashing the potential of the Collaborate Whiteboard for student engagement.
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The document provides an agenda and information for a workshop about preparing students for a WOW event. The workshop will discuss what a WOW is, different types of WOW events, how to prepare students, event planning details, and resources for additional support. Attendees will learn how to focus on student learning, avoid common pitfalls, scaffold student preparation, and celebrate the community at their WOW celebrations.

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This document provides tips for planning and delivering effective webinars using Blackboard Collaborate Ultra. It recommends following a 4 stage process: initial planning, content preparation, delivery style, and follow-through. Key tips include keeping your energy level up when presenting, pre-loading content, having a moderator to manage chat, and recording the webinar. The document emphasizes the importance of considering the audience perspective and providing an engaging experience through techniques like varying voice and regularly interacting with participants.

Using Blackboard Mobile Learn to develop research skills through authentic le...

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The document describes an iterative process of developing an authentic mobile learning task to help international students develop research skills. In the task, students work in groups to create "suburb profile" blogs recommending suburbs for other international students to live in. The task was improved by adding a requirement for students to visit and collect information about their chosen suburb using the Blackboard Mobile app. This enhanced engagement and led to higher quality blog outcomes by incorporating first-hand experiences into their research. The mobile task design facilitated real-time teacher feedback and interaction between remote teacher and student groups. Future iterations could address bandwidth issues and further develop the use of literature in the task.

What can institutional big data tell us - Mark Northover - Auckland Universit...

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For many years AUT has used the Wimba Voice Authoring tools for a range of learning and teaching support activities. Most recently, and most comprehensively, the VA Presenter function has been used by our School of Languages to support a group of papers for a Translating and Interpreting programme, as well as for a Sign Language qualification. Since the announcement of ‘end of life’ for Voice Authoring and its replacement with Voice Thread, we have been working to understand how we can best replicate the previous functionality. After just a short period of the tools being available to us, we have made some progress in understanding how this new toolset will provide what we want, as well as potentially offering us much more. This session will present some of our initial findings, as well as invite others to discuss their experiences and opinions.

Standardising navigation in Blackboard sites to improve the Student experienc...

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Feedback from students calling for a consistent look and feel in Blackboard (Interact 2) subject sites has resulted in Charles Sturt University (CSU) investigating the development and implementation of a standardised template. The presentation will discuss the background to the project including what, when, and why in terms of template and cover feedback from staff and students that have used the templates. Discussion will be garnered from the audience on their thoughts on our implementation process.

The University of New South Wales Australia has developed advanced commenting features for the Moodle Media collection activity. This allows comments and likes to be added to audio, video and image files in Moodle Media Collections. With audio and video files, comments can be added to specific points in the media item's timeline. Different comment types allow you to control who sees your comments. This includes the whole course, just you or a person you send feedback to and you.

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

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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.

Administering a customised, printable certificate of completion in Blackboard...

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While badges and achievements have their place, some training programs often still require participants to have a printed or PDF certificate bearing their name as proof of completing a task. Griffith University developed a tool to fit this need some years ago and it has recently been transformed into a Blackboard Building Block, allowing more sustainable usage and customisation options. This presentation will talk through the history of the project and demonstrate the capabilities of the new Building Block.

UOW Exemplar Moodle Site with DLT’s - Lynley Clark, Blackboard and Denise Spa...

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The University of Wollongong and Blackboard have collaborated to develop an exemplary course for staff that demonstrates best practice for digital learning within Moodle. In 2015, the University implemented a set of minimum expectations and good practice elements called the Digital Learning Thresholds (DLT). The DLT strategy supports the principle that all students will have access to digital learning and both staff and students have clear expectations about the use of digital learning within the curriculum. This session will be co-presented by Lynley Clark from Blackboard and Denise Spanswick from the University of Wollongong (UOW). It will discuss how Lynley and a small team of Educational Designers from UOW worked together to incorporate the DLT elements into examples of activities and resources within a Moodle site with the aim of providing a model or exemplar to develop staff’s understanding of digital learning in a way that could more easily translate to their own subject development and an exceptional learning experience for UOW students.

Toward an automated student feedback system for text based assignments - Pete...

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As the use of blended learning environments and digital technologies become integrated into the higher education sector, rich technologies such as analytics have the ability to assist teaching staff identify students at risk, learning material that is not proving effective and learning site designs that aid and facilitate improved learning. More recently consideration has been given to automated essay scoring. Such systems can be used in a formative way, such as providing feedback on initial assignment drafts or summatively through the analysis of final assignment submissions. Further, providing students with quick feedback on written assignments opens the opportunity through formative feedback to improved learning outcomes. This presentation details a current project developing a system to analyse text-based assignments. The project is being developed for broad application, but the findings focus on an undergraduate pilot subject: ‘Ideas that Shook the World’ (a compulsory first year Bachelor of Arts subject taught on 5 campuses to more than 1000 students by 15 staff). Preliminary results of a fist scan of assignments are presented and the issues raised in developing the system presented together with an outline of additional work planned for the project. It is believed the work will have wide application where text-based assignments are utilised for assessment.

DevCon - Branding the LMS for your institution - Michael Garner, Blackboard

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Innovating in the MOOC Space - Karin Pfister - Charles Darwin University

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Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have gained momentum in recent years and offer a new opportunity for interaction with potential university students. While MOOCs have been seen as a disruptive force for higher education, they have provided spaces to explore innovative approaches and emerging technologies that can then be integrated into regular university course content. Designing courses that are not aligned with any accreditation requirements has allowed the flexibility to creatively experiment and push boundaries. Using Blackboard’s Open Education platform, Charles Darwin University has developed and delivered 3 MOOCs showcasing creative approaches to otherwise traditional course content. This presentation will showcase CDU’s processes, innovative approaches, and lessons learnt. As a bonus, you will also see inside the Memory MOOC’s visually stunning “Memory Palace” and see how learning Accounting was brought to life through interactive video and branching scenarios in the “Who’s Counting” MOOC.

Blackboard Analytics for Learn: A recipe for success - Richard Stals, Edith C...

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Course design is undoubtedly a critical element of any online or blended learning environment. As academics and instructional designers, we often associate course design with teaching and learning outcomes that are course- and program-specific and are aligned specifically to graduate attributes or goals. In this session, we will instead take a deconstructive approach to analyse each of the main tool groups within Blackboard Learn and Collaborate, and showcase some unique tool deployment use-cases from clients around the globe. We will also touch on using the same tools in research and grant management to discuss how both teaching and research departments could cross benefit from using the same platform within an institution.

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To achieve its strategic goals, UMBC realized it needed to become a more data-driven institution by deploying more sophisticated tools and procedures to help staff find and analyze data in a timely way. Specifically, the university needed ways that users could develop accurate and easily configurable reports to support operational management decisions and strategic analysis, which a data warehouse made possible. In this talk, Dr. Mozie-Ross will describe how UMBC successfully implemented its data warehouse by resolving campus-wide issues with buy-in, IT partnering with IR, governance, and cost.

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Workshop: Setting the Foundations for an Iterative Course Evolution Model – A...

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Elements of exemplary course design are well documented and readily accessible from various resources. Most notable are the Blackboard Exemplary Course Program (http://bit.ly/2jCURRd) and the Quality Matters Rubrics and Standards (http://bit.ly/2jdtwTG). While these are excellent resources that outlines the goals and standards to improve the learning experience of students in an online or blended course environment, workload associated with its deployment and management is difficult to evaluate. With increasing strain on teaching and learning support teams within institutions, this exacerbates the challenge faced by instructors and academics of HOW to approach improving their courses in a scalable and manageable way. This workshop will focus on facilitating participants in the development of a course evolution and management framework. The goal is to guide participants in establishing a unique set of foundations for course design, upon which iterative improvements can be planned and executed in a manageable manner. These can then be mapped against relevant Exemplary Course Design Rubric elements to create short-, mid-, and long-term milestones.

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Delivering Student Retention & Success with Predictive Analytics | Nicole Wal...

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Predictive analytics has been a hot topic recently as there have been many controversial questions asked if it will negatively impact students with a discouraging prediction. The power of predictive analytics in education isn’t determining a student’s future in advance. It’s helping shape positive outcomes while there is still time to act. With large class sizes and growing advisor to student ratios, identifying students in need of help can be a difficult challenge. Instructors can see current grades or whether students complete assignments on time, but this limited view does not capture the students who might be likely to struggle later in the semester even though they are doing fine now. Nicole will share about how institutions can forecast student success and struggles in their learning and how you can run a cutting-edge way of leveraging data with timely interventions offers a potentially powerful mechanism of students identification at the point and time of failure, before it is too late, and offering them strategies to overcome failures.

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Blackboard Opening Keynote | Katie Blot - Blackboard | TLCANZ17

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Blackboard’s annual gathering of leading educators from Australia and New Zealand to discuss the future of learning and opportunities for higher education. Katie is deeply committed to leveraging Blackboard’s innovative technologies and services in order to partner with the global education community and enable student and institutional success. Blackboard’s core values of integrity, excellence, innovation and accountability resonate deeply with Katie.

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