The advantages and drawbacks of Blackboard 9
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The advantages and drawbacks of Blackboard 9
- 1. Live your life. Create your destiny. The Advantages and Drawbacks of Blackboard 9 Marius Pienaar 16 September 2011
- 2. Live your life. Create your destiny. Outcomes • Advantages of Bb9 • Drawbacks of Bb9 • What’s new in Bb9 • Show and Tell: creating a Learning Module
- 3. Live your life. Create your destiny. Advantages
- 4. Live your life. Create your destiny. Advantages Increased availability Quick feedback Improved communication Tracking Skill building
- 5. Live your life. Create your destiny. Drawbacks
- 6. Live your life. Create your destiny. Drawbacks Blackboard is hard to learn Blackboard options may be restricted to particular operating systems Blackboard system inefficiencies Cost
- 7. Live your life. Create your destiny. What’s new in Blackboard 9.1 Learn
- 8. Live your life. Create your destiny. What’s new in Blackboard 9.1 Learn
- 9. Live your life. Create your destiny. Creating a Learning Module
- 10. Live your life. Create your destiny. Creating a Learning Module
- 11. Live your life. Create your destiny.
- 12. Live your life. Create your destiny. Conclusion • Bb LMS allows for: • the means for creation of motivational environments for learning • the opportunity for students to use the familiar environment of the internet for educational purposes • a medium to present curricular materials in a way that promotes the development of students’ organizational, communication, and time-management skills
- 13. Live your life. Create your destiny. Conclusion • Bb LMS has found a home in distance learning with courses taken totally online, but also as a complement to more traditional instruction in hybrid courses • The technology will undoubtedly become less of a goal in learning and more of a tool • Bb LMS will evolve to allow students to progress at their own rates with lecturers serving as guides for the learning process • Motivation of students in the online learning environment will show benefits in a skilled and knowledgeable society
Editor's Notes
- After this short presentation you will have a better understanding of the following aspects of Blackboard 9.1 Learn: Advantages Drawbacks What’s new A show-and-tell of how to create a learning module
- First, a look at the advantages of Blackboard 9.1 Learn
- Increased availability. Can be accessed from the internet at anytime and anywhere. Students can retrieve all of their course materials. Students can submit their assignments as soon as they are complete. Availability is paramount for students. Quick feedback. There are two types of feedback provided to students: Faculty-initiated feedback and automated feedback. Instant grading, and therefore instant feedback - If the lecturer selects the appropriate feedback options, students can take their tests and have all questions graded and scores available immediately after they submit their responses. Students can submit their homework assignments from anywhere and see if the assignments they have submitted have been graded. Faculty using Blackboard can also get instant feedback through the Blackboard’s Survey option which allows students to respond immediately and anonymously to multiple choice or true-false questions about the class. Improved communication. Four of the more distinctive options are announcements, discussions, virtual classroom, and email. The announcement function is available to students immediately after log on in the Blackboard system. This assures that all students are current and this minimizes administrative work for faculty. The discussion function, asynchronous discussion develops collegiality among students and provides a means of support for students. The virtual classroom is a synchronous environment which supports text-based chat and allows live interaction among participants. The email option within Blackboard is very flexible. Blackboard provides the ability to send email to individual students, to groups of students, or to all students. Tracking. Blackboard tracks student usage of courses and posts these results in the course statistics area. Instructors can obtain statistics on all students or individual students within the course. Individual assignments can also be tracked. Date and time stamps are included in the Last Submitted/Modified section of the submitted assignment, allowing for easy identification of late assignments. Students can also track their own progress by viewing the Gradebook. Skill building. There are several additional skills that are promoted with the use of Blackboard. These skills include organization and time management, which go hand-in-hand in helping students carry out their assignments efficiently. Blackboard provides the ability to include a calendar for each course in which a student is enrolled, thus optimizing students’ efforts to match course expectations. All documents posted by the instructor can provide start and end dates and times.
- Next, a look at the drawbacks of Blackboard 9.1 Learn
- Blackboard is hard to learn. Literature shows that Blackboard, and other LMSs, are harder to learn to use than expected. LMSs are “time-consuming and inflexible.” Many students were not proficient with the technology. The internet is often a new learning environment for some/most students and find working with the online Blackboard Learning System difficult. Although promoted as an easy-to-use system, there is a learning curve for Blackboard that precludes full and timely utility. Blackboard options may be restricted to particular operating systems. Initial announcements by Blackboard Inc. were that new versions of its software would provide additional features only to those running Blackboard on Microsoft NT servers. Some find that Blackboard limits creativity, technologically speaking, by confining instruction to a restricted format. Blackboard system inefficiencies. Blackboard is portal-based and not really a mobilized technology. According to some, the adherence to portal-based systems like Blackboard is, in essence, teaching students with archaic technology. Cost. Blackboard licenses are very expensive. Costs for the Blackboard LMS may start low but as subscribers integrate more functions into Blackboard, subscription licenses may become very expensive.
- Next, we will have a quick look at what is new to Blackboard 9 Learn that is different to Blackboard 8 CE.
- The video clip highlights what is new in Blackboard 9.1 Learn Click on the video to play it Then click on the Bb icon to access another PPT on What’s New.
- Next, we will have a look at how to create a basic Learning Module (video clip) Learning Modules are when the syllabus is broken down into smaller, more digestible chunks of work.
- Click on the video to play it
- Now, let us wrap up and come to a few conclusions
- Go through these conclusions one by one. Bb LMS allows for: the means for creation of motivational environments for learning the opportunity for students to use the familiar environment of the internet for educational purposes a medium to present curricular materials in a way that promotes the development of students’ organizational, communication, and time-management skills
- Bb LMS has found a home in distance learning with courses taken totally online, but also as a complement to more traditional instruction in hybrid courses The technology will undoubtedly become less of a goal in learning and more of a tool Bb LMS will evolve to allow students to progress at their own rates with lecturers serving as guides for the learning process Motivation of students in the online learning environment will show benefits in a skilled and knowledgeable society