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Scaling up & branching out: From totality to connectivity

Dr Fiona Strawbridge Head of Digital Educationf.strawbridge@ucl.ac.uk@fstrawbridge

Context

Campus-based

Postgraduate Face-to-face

Research-intensive

Timeline

2002Learning Technology

Support Service3 - 8 FTE

2012E-Learning

Environments15 FTE

2016Digital

Education23 FTE

Team timeline

2005E-learning statement(not quite a strategy)

2012E-Learning

Strategy

2016 Education

Strategy

Strategy timeline

2002Rookie

learning technologist

2012Aspiring Leader

2016 Decision

maker

Personal timeline2008Mrs

Moodle

PART 1

To ‘Total Moodle’

It’s 2007…

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UCL Moodle is born

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2008-9: Migration to Moodle

2011: Everyone has got to use it

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Moodle baseline v1.0

Should include:

news forum timetable/course calendar lecture materials glossary of key terms additional texts and resources

We prepared for a backlash

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Which didn’t materialise

What went right?

1. The institution backed Moodle

2. The LTSSsupported Moodle

We linked key systems together

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We provided templates

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We aligned training with the baseline

We targeted new staff

We targeted late adopters

No surprisesEmphasise the student experience

Speak their language

Find out what motivates them

3. Departmental staff adopted Moodle

The teaching administrators

UCL admin and financial systems Portico – student information service Financial Information System (FIS) - financial data and management Timetabling/CMIS - room bookings and timetabling Service in Partnership (SiP) – HR forms Rome - online recruitment Web content management (silva) Scanners – being piloted as attendance checks for Points-Based

Immigration System (PBIS)UCL teaching and learning systems Moodle - e–learning environment Turnitin – plagiarism detection Lecturecast – automated lecture recording Opinio - web-based surveys My Portfolio – staff and student e-portfolio Electronic Voting Systems (EVS) – audience response 'clickers' Wiki – collaborative web pages Blackboard Collaborate – virtual classroom

Communication and networking tools Email – inefficient way of contacting students? Facebook– seen mainly as a communication tool Phone Text messaging – no UCL service but a strong demand Messenger - text messaging Skype – video conferencing Linkedin – professional networking Blogs – UCLWordpress service Twitter –how to use in HE? YouTube – online videosProductivity tools MS Office – Word, Excel, PP, Acrobat Dreamweaver – web page development Etherpad – collaborative note taking Evernote – stores notes, photos Google docs – share web documents Google analytics – web usage UCL Dropbox – exchange large files Dropbox – web-based online storageMarketing and events management Eventbrite – events management Find a Masters – marketing Oxboffice – ticketing service Google Adwords – online advertising

40+ tools“It is almost impossible

for busy academic staff to stay up to date” (SLiDA)

Multi-skilled and influential…

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Oversaw migration of web content

4. Students demanded better Moodle

What students liked best

Some staff are quick and use the resource really well; couldn't ask for better.

Others seem either tech-shy, slow to load materials, or don't get the links right …

My #### classes … seemed to have an aversion to any 21st

century technology altogether.

Consistency and more control in Moodle

would be good

But…

Moodle use varies enormously by lecturer:

some make excellent use … some don't use

them at all

All courses should be on Moodle, and lecture notes and homework

problems uploaded on to it

So…

A departmental push

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Moodle make-overs

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We achieved Total Moodle

PART 2

Being (more) strategic

It’s 2011…

… we have no clear education strategy

… and I’m asked to prepare an e-learning strategy

(2012-2015)

Some horizon scanning

A spot of surveillance

Expert guidance

Textbook stuff

‘The leader’s role is to describe reality and give hope.’

Napoleon Bonaparte

Student views

Credits: Alex Dutton & Amy Wood

A digital story competition

Key strategic aims

1. Raising our profile as an educational leader

2. Building on the baseline

3. Seamless digital infrastructure

4. Connecting students, academics and ideas

Enablers

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Participatory approach(Luckin et al. 2006; Sharpe et al. 2008)

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E-learning champions

• Academic + Administrator• Local strategic statements• Share good practice• Networks and special

interest groups

Digital Education support structure

Core services

Innovation

Evaluation

ChampionsSchool-facing

advisors

How did we do?

1. Raising our profile as an educational leader…?

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UCLeXtend

Course discovery

Registration and payment

Learning environment

118 courses

17,000 learners

FutureLearn

2. Building on the baseline…?

UCL Baseline 2016

bit.ly/1Rx5vDO

Ten categories:1. Structure2. Orientation3. Communication4. Assessment5. Resources6. Cross-platform compatibility7. Accessibility8. Intellectual property9. Active participation10. Quality assurance

3. Seamless digital infrastructure…?

Interfaces rather than integration…

Moodle

CMISTimetabling

SITSStudent

Information

4. Connecting students, academics and ideas…?

“Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s

thought into action is the most difficult thing in the world.”

Goethe

“The smallest of deeds always exceeds the grandest of intentions.”

Anon(And Jason Norton’s

email signature)

PART 3 – Connectivity

It’s 2016

We’ve had a change of guard…

Gabriel Vilenna Fernandez https://flic.kr/p/8ejM1e

…providing a powerful guiding coalition (Kotter 2006)

ProvostMichael Arthur

Vice ProvostAntony Smith

Educational DevelopmentDilly Fung

And have a strategy, with education at the core

EºR

“We will develop a distinctive digital infrastructure to connect students with each other, with staff and with the outside world to support networked, research-based and interdisciplinary education.”

CLE“The existing VLE will be augmented by a set of communication, collaboration and productivity tools that will together form our Connected Learning Environment”

Beyond modules

Beyond UCL

Showcase

Student control

Networks

Recommendations

Student Sites

UCL Together

Core VLE

Core VLE

UCL Together (a working title)

Credits: Hana Mori & Beatrice Maidman

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An academic social network

Communities

Mock upRecommendations

Votes & Rewards

Events

Updates

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Recommendations - content

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Recommendations - people

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News – spaces, people, resources, trending

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Audience management

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Social media

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Tagging

And, possibly…

Idea generation

Leaderboards

Kudos

Guru Novice

Expert Master

Badges

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A bit more open…

Easy to useElegant

CustomisableFeels like education

Plus…

Communities

Mock upRecommendations

Votes & Rewards

Events

Updates

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Student Sites

UCL Together

Core VLE

Student sites(another working title)

University of Mary Washington

umw.domains

Blog…

Student Sites

UCL Together

Core VLE

Mark van Laere https://flic.kr/p/6FfqS6

And, by the way…