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Comtech Agenda
• Welcome – Harold Esche• Project Emerge – Grant Watterworth/Don Zarsky
• Wireless - Tom Seto• Blended Learning – Jeremy Mortis/Heather Weiland
– Blackboard • Survey Results
– Breeze– Elluminate
• Connect with Mac Users – Anthony Reimer
Connected Campus
Enabling the learning, research, administrative, and community goals of the UofC, through the effective and efficient use of technology; allowing people to access information when they need it, at the required time, in the desired location, and in the appropriate format.
Wireless Initiative
• Phase I– August 31, 2005– Targeting “student spaces”– Ground floor of all buildings with student
spaces
• Phase II– August 31, 2006– Ubiquitous campus coverage
Wireless Initiative
• AirUC– Currently 130 access points
• RezNet– Currently 144 access points
• Phase I– Add 400 new access points
• Phase II– Add further 800 new access points
Wireless Initiative
• Thin Access Points– APs have minimal intelligence– Controlled by WLAN switches– Easy management and control
• Fat Access Points– Intelligent APs– Can run standalone– Difficult to maintain and manage
Wireless Initiative
• Applications– Student access to Portal, webdisk, email– VoWIP Voice over Wireless IP– GSM/WiFi Phones– Parking– Security– Inventory– Bookstore
Wireless Initiative
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Blended Learning
What is Blended Learning? • Blended Learning’ is an approach to course design that
meaningfully brings together the best of both face-to-face and online learning. It is not intended to supplant either of these individual approaches, rather to build from each to create, a new, more effective learning experience for students.
• Blended learning course design seeks to leverage what is best done in-person (debates; group presentations; reflexive response/thought) in combination with what is best done online (provision of content; deeper, reflective discourse; document management and organization). In this view, the traditional ‘3 hours of class time per week’ is reconsidered with some equivalent combination of face-to-face and online work.
IT Infrastructure to Support Blended Learning
• Blackboard
• Breeze
• Elluminate
Blackboard Stats for Fall 2004 and Winter 2005
FALL 2004
Registrar's: Total number of UofC students: 25,495 Students in a Bb course: 18,478 (72%) Avg number of Bb courses per Bb student: 2.4 Total number of Bb courses: 844
Cont Ed: Students in a Bb course: 2,036 Avg number of Bb courses per Bb student: 1.5 Total number of Bb courses: 189
Server stats (per typical weekday): Page hits: 640,000 Logins: 40,000
Blackboard Stats for Winter 2005
WINTER 2005
– Registrars
Total Students: 24165 Students in a Bb course: 18393 Number of Bb courses: 906
– Cont Ed
Students in a Bb course: 1983 Number of Bb courses: 186
Blackboard Student Survey Results
• Why did we want to do a survey?
• Number of students responding to survey– 5554 respondents (5423 unique)
• Questions designed by IT, Learning Commons and the BB Course Administrators Group
Blackboard Student Survey Results
Question 1
Blackboard Student Survey Results
Question 2
Blackboard Student Survey Results
Question 3
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Question 5
Blackboard Student Survey Results
Question 8
Blackboard Student Survey Results
Question 11
Notes & Course MaterialsReview notes after classSample exams & assignments
AnnouncementsDiscussion boards
Input from both students & profGroup projects
File exchange & emailGradesAssignment submission
Blackboard Student Survey Results
Question 12
Low prof involvementNo discussion board made available
Site set up but not usedDisorganized layout
Posted just before lectureFile formats
Instructors didn’t know how to use the toolsUnused tools (Gradebook, discussion, chat, groups, calendar)Overused email
Not always relevantAssumption that students knew what it was and how to use it
Blackboard Student Survey Results
Question 15
Blackboard Student Survey Results
Breeze
• What is BreezeBreeze is software developed by Macromedia that publishes your
PowerPoint files into Flash (.swf) format for easy viewing. Using just some of Breeze’s capabilities, you can:
• Add narration to your PowerPoint file
• Synchronize PowerPoint animations to the narration
• Publish your PowerPoint file to the Breeze server (creating a Breeze Presentation)
• Allow the public to view your Breeze Presentation
• Download your Breeze Presentation and put on a CD or into Blackboard
Breeze
• Learn more about BreezeDate: May 31, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. Learning Commons – 5th floor Bio Sciences
Register: http://commons.ucalgary.ca/workshops/view/1000612
Elluminate
Connect with Mac Users
• mactech-L Mailing List