One Trick Pony?

EQUELLA in

support of Academic Governance

and Compliance Requirements

Jaci Ganendran

Overview

• Who we are

• The story so far

• Where we are today

• EQUELLA in the Governance and Compliance space

• 35,000 Student enrolments

• 1000 staff• 6 campuses• 480 courses ranging

from certificate 1 through Diplomas/Advanced Diplomas and Degrees

Andrea O’Neill, Jaci Ganendran, Vanessa Tuckfield, Jyothi JayaramMissing : Svetlana Lane

The story so far – drivers 2006-2009

• Copyright management

• Promote sharing (efficiencies)

• Promote flexibility and support of the Learning Management system

• Digital Storage (Strategic IT Plan)

Background/ContexteLR at CIT

• July 2010 – Implementation with 50 courses

• Jan 2011- Live• All Content from previous

LMS captured• All auditable teaching and

learning content to reside in the Repository (CIT Policy July 2010)

• June 2013 - >75K objects in EQUELLA

• July 2013 –All CIT assessments in an Assessment Validation (Program Review Improvement) Collection

Moodle-Equella-Adobe Connect

From Student Mgt System

Centre Transition Plans• Course /contentmigration

schedule• Moderation:• Adding / checking metadata

• Professional development• digital literacy• Readiness to engage →

provision of support• Supporting, not judging

• Future improvements• redesign of eLearn courses• Customised content

projects

Yet more progress…

Apr-12 May-12 Jul-12 Aug-12 Oct-12 Dec-12 Jan-13 Mar-13 May-13 Jun-130

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Object Activity

Moodle upgrade to 2.3Equella upgrade

to 5.2EQUELLA upgrade to 6.1 (Feb ’14)Moodle upgrade to 2.5 (Jan ‘14)

Centre # in eLR # linked Percentage used # in CIT View usedBuilding & Environment

1,769 824 46.6 64Business

6,926 1,155 16.7 88CIT View

26,255 1,409 5.4College

1,301 432 33.2 41Creative Industries

4,591 289 6.3 20Education Excellence

603 260 43.1 301Fyshwick Trade Skills

260 433 166.5 43Health Community & Wellbeing

7,332 2,146 29.3 875Information & Communication Tech

1,259 477 37.9 41Sci, Forensic and Engineering

1,597 184 11.5 17Tourism and Hotel Management

1,873 1,231 65.7 108

2012 – Whence now repositories

Aggregation (Set and Forget)

Vs

Curation (Resource intensive, High value add)

An investigation into the use of Social media at CIT for teaching and learning

• Facebook, blogs, moblogs• Not tweeting (yet)• Communication, delivery, formative and

summative assessment• Confusion about security, privacy, intellectual

property ownership and possible copyright infringement• Some examples of good practice

2013 -National requirements• NCVER IME audits• ASQA (Australian Skills Quality

Authority)• TEQSA (Tertiary Education

Quality Standards Agency)• NSSC (National Skills Standards

Council) Standards Framework• Copyright

What this means for us

Questions?

Concerns?

Comments?

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