ANZLTC14: Bb Collaborate Session - Lindsey Collins

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Blackboard Collaborate

Lindsey Collins

Platform Executive

About Me

LMS INTEGRATION

WEB CONFERENCING MOBILE COLLABORATION INSTANT

COLLABORATION VOICE AUTHORING

•  Virtual classroom

•  Webinars

•  Professional Development

•  Hybrid Learning

•  Real time participation in virtual sessions anytime and anywhere from iOS, Android & Kindle Fire

• Over wifi & 3G

• Informal Collaboration

• 24 hour online presence

• One-on-one Collaboration

• Student services

• Peer driven learning

• Coaching

• Language learning support

• Feedback

• Adding voice to text based learning

Blackboard Collaborate

8,787,167,189?

Blackboard Collaborate Roadmap & Future Directions

Forward-‐Looking Statements

Statements regarding our product development initiatives, including new products and future product upgrades, updates or enhancements represent our current intentions, but may be modiAied, delayed or abandoned without prior notice and there is no assurance that such offering, upgrades, updates or functionality will become available unless and until they have been made generally available to our customers.

Listening to Our Clients

Collaborate Themes

" Simple – Easy entry to your sessions with an intuitive user experience

" Mobile – Attend while on the go, for the 21st century learner

" Integrated – Works within the framework of your existing academic tools and workAlows

Simple and Convenient – Conferencing From a Browser (In Design)

Removing Barriers to Web Conferencing (Launcher NOW Available for MAC & Windows)

High Fidelity User Experience – Clear and Compelling (In Design)

•  Richer Audio

•  High Quality Video

•  Sharper, Faster Application Sharing

Mobile – A Complete Experience (COMING SOON)

•  Video

•  Web Tour

•  Multimedia Library

•  Private Chat

Deeper Blackboard Learn Integration (Available Now)

" A Room for Every Course

" An OfAice for Every Instructor

" SimpliAied Scheduling

Interoperability with LTI Integration (Available Now)

•  Streamlined Session Creation Options

•  MP4/MP3 Conversion and Access

•  Integrated Phone Conferencing

Come and see more at the UX Labs here at the conference! Location: Princeton Foyer

Trends, Best Practices & Customer Stories

Learning GRIDS

Flipped classroom

GamiXication

Time saving

Cost savings E-‐learning

Hybrid learning

Open access

24/7 Personalization

Digital Natives

PERSONALIZATION

Accessibility

No user left behind

Retention SYNCHRONOUS LEARNING

RICH MEDIA

Non-‐traditional student

PERSONAL LEARNING ECOLOGIES

ECO-‐SCHOOLS Transliteracy

Learning Agents

Mobility Smart Localism

PEER LEARNING

Going Virtual Doing more with less

RETURN ON INVESTMENT

Meetings & Travel -‐ Cost & Time Savings

•  Cost Savings = $41,000 AUD in fuel, overnight accommodation, food, physical spaces

•  Avoided travelling 27,778 kms

•  Reduction in greenhouse gases of up to 6.1 tonnes

PEER-‐BASED LEARNING

University of the West of England, UK

•  Facts and Xigures:

•  Largest Higher Education

provider in the South West of England

•  30,000 students & 3,500 staff •  Circa 2,500 courses live on

Blackboard

•  Reaching remote audiences

•  Multicast across rooms and campuses

•  Creating ‘space’ for students to collaborate

University of the West of England, UK

Peer Assisted Learning at UWE

•  One of the biggest schemes of its kind in HE

•  Over 1,000 paid PAL leaders

•  Weekly small group sessions

•  We need a bigger campus!

Results?

•  Students readily engage

•  Perceived as a “better option”

•  Timetabling is problematic

•  Lack of physical space

•  Need for mixed-‐model

FLIPPED CLASSROOM

“Education is changing, it is no longer an assembly line.”

Traditional Classroom Professor lectures

Flipped Classroom Everyone participates creating a

dynamic and interactive environment

3-‐STEP-‐PROCESS FOR FLIPPED LEARNING 1. S.I.M.P.L.E. ARCHIVES 2. FACILITATED PEER LEARNING 3. DEMONSTRATE COLLABORATIVE KNOWLEDGE

Univ. of Salford – Flipped Classroom

" Name: Helen Parker

" Role: Skills and Recognition Manager in Student Life

" Uses: Flipped classroom on Critical Analysis, Planning your Assignment and Academic Writing Skills for UG and PG students

" BeneXits: Available 24/7, Empowers students

University of Salford, UK

Bringing the virtual lecturer and virtual participants to the physical participants together.

•  Improved outcomes

•  Engagement – anywhere, anytime

•  Empowerment and 24/7 availability

•  Flexibility

•  Inclusivity

•  Edgy! Year No. of students grades over 70%

2013 Over 78% 2014 Over 90%

Results?

ACCESSIBILITY

The Open University, UK

•  The most strategic distance teaching and learning University in the world

•  The Airst University to offer courses to demograhics without access

•  Today has over 250, 000 students, 50, 000 overseas and all online

•  Since 1969, has provided online courses to over 1.7 million students

•  Biggest education provider to students with disabilities, currently 13, 000 enrolled

•  Over 70% of students are either part-‐time or full time enrolled

•  Rated top University in England and Wales for student satisfaction in 2012 – UK government national student satisfaction survey

•  In 2010 the OU became one of the Sunday Times′ Best Places to Work in the Public Sector

•  The Open University is also one of only three UK higher education institutions to gain accreditation in the USA by the Middle States Commission on higher education

•  Blackboard Collaborate plays an institutional role in student satisfaction, and outcomes

The Open University -‐ Blackboard Collaborate

“Collaborate has dramatically changed the learning experience for our 250, 000 distance students, helping to bring them closer with their tutors” Niall Sclater Director, Virtual Learning Environment Programme, The Open University, UK

Results? Improved outcomes with Synchronous Teaching & Learning

Doing more with less -‐ The-‐Swiss-‐Army-‐Knife of online

technology

•  Economic downturn in the UK led to massive expansion of online capabilities and growth

•  Free services were considered, but Blackboard Collaborate was chosen due to the Alexibilities in terms of tools and resources

University of Salford, UK

•  Targeted use of Collaborate allowed for increased scalability and revenue opportunities

•  Platform support allowed for rapid growth and expansion

Results?

“For us, Collaborate became a tool that we could use in just about any situation”

Denis McGrath, Denis McGrath, Technology Enhanced Learning Advisor, University of Salford

•  Problem: •  Too small registration (10 only); program at risk of closure

•  Adopted Collaborate technology, program swelled due to removal of barriers of attendance and physical space

•  Recruits Airst came only from UK, but soon from the world.

•  One year later the same course nominted a Times Higher Education Course for innovation and networking opportunities exploded!

Masters Course – Occupational Therapy

“This type of exposure increased the reputation of the programme for innovation and quality in the international occupational therapy community.”

Denis McGrath, Technology Enhanced Learning Advisor, University of Salford

•  Full live conference with speakers beaming through Collaborate

•  Collaborate web discussion with #hashtag references via Twitter beamed live to physical audience

•  Conference program delivered live via Collaborate and all conference recordings distributed to attendees via secure website

•  Results? Flexible Attendance, instantaneous communication, mass attendance, complete interaction, replay and repurposing of content for distribution

6th Evidence based library & information based Conference

Bad Weather Situation

•  University was closed for 3 days due to snow and low temperatures…all classes cancelled

•  …but not for students and instructors using Collaborate who were able to replicate all F2F T&L from home

•  Results? •  Flexible Attendance, instantaneous communication,, complete interaction, replay and repurposing of content for distribution, complete coordination and management from home using broadband connection

Blackboard Collaborate ANZ User Group

•  Launch of the Blackboard Collaborate User Group

•  Date: Friday 3rd October

•  Time: 11am – 12pm (AEST)

•  Invites going out next week

•  Please contact your account manager if you do not receive an invite and would like to take part

Questions?

lindsey.collins@blackboard.comDorota.ford@blackboard.com