Gary Roberts Alfred University Director of Information Technology Services
Dec 21, 2015
Gary Roberts
Alfred UniversityDirector of Information Technology Services
• Models of Integration:
Total Integration
Partial Integration
Dual Model
• Advantages of combining C.M.S. with I.L.
What am I Going To Talk About?
• Motivation
•Who is doing it?
• How you can import TILT Board into your Blackboard 6.0+ system
What am I Going To Talk About?
• Technical details of TILT Board
• Wish list of improvements
• SUNY Gen Ed: “Information Management” student learning outcomes must be assessed and documented
•Middle States Standards: demand assessment of IL programs
Motivation--Assessment!
• We also needed a system that would gather testing/registration information
• We needed a solution that:
1) Could integrate into existing course work
2) Was not dependant on classroom time
Requirements
Engaging Content Registration & Testing
Complete Tutorial
Engaging Content
+LDAP
Registration & Testing
Complete Tutorial
Engaging Content
+
Registration & Testing
Complete Tutorial
Course Management
System
• Course management systems are seeing increased usage on many campuses
• Course Management Systems are information/content containers
What are the advantages?
• Solution does not depend on classroom time
--Feedback is immediately available to reinforce concepts
• Many course management systems have strong assessment tools:
What are the advantages? (continued)
--Quiz scores can be exported to a spreadsheet
--Question pools can be randomized to discourage cheating
--Assessment tools provide light statistical analysis
• Many course management systems have sophisticated evaluation systems:
What are the advantages? (continued)
--Selective release of content areas and quizzes
--Blackboard “Sequential learning unites”, provide a logical, narrative approach to content presentation.
• A study of more than 18,000 Freshman and Senior students at 63 higher education institutions across the United States
What are the advantages? (continued)
ECAR—2005 Study Of Students and Information Technology: Convenience,
Connection, Control and Learning
• Of the 72 percent of the students who reported using course management systems, 75 percent of those students reported a positive or very positive experience
What are the advantages? (continued)
ECAR—2005 Study Of Students and Information Technology: Convenience,
Connection, Control and Learning
• The more students use a CMS, the more they like it
What are the advantages? (continued)
ECAR—2005 Study Of Students and Information Technology: Convenience,
Connection, Control and Learning
• Students report that using a CMS improves their learning
• Students seem to like many of the features (of a CMS), but they wish instructors used them more extensively and consistently
What are the advantages? (continued)
ECAR—2005 Study Of Students and Information Technology: Convenience,
Connection, Control and Learning
Who is doing it?
• Albertson College, Christine Schutz, (Blackboard and TILT) switching to Moodle
• Alfred University, Gary Roberts, (Blackboard and TILT)
• Oakland University (Rochester, MI), Elizabeth W. Kraemer, (WebCT and Local Tutorial)
Who is doing it?
• Shippensburg University Of Pennsylvania, (Blackboard and Ship to Shore, locally created)
• Quinnipiac University, Terry Ballard (Blackboard and TILT)
• Slippery Rock University,(Blackboard and TILT)
• University Of New South Wales (Australia), Lesley Ngatai (WebCT and TILT)
Who is doing it?
• Total Integration
• Partial Integration
What are the models?
• Dual Model
Tutorial Content(Quiz Removed)
Course Management
System
Upload
Re-created
Total Integration In C.M.S.
Quiz
Total Integration
• Total Integration can feel like jamming a round peg into a square hole
• Content and Evaluation may appear to be integrated
• Everything tied up in a neat package
• Violates open publication license of TILT?
Tutorial Content(Quiz Removed)
Course Management
System
Hyperlink Re-created
Partial Integration In C.M.S.
Quiz
[External Web Server] [External C.M.S. Server]
Partial Integration
• Partial integration—easier on the developer/designer
• Content and assessment may appear to be integrated
• Tutorial/assessment scattered across several servers
• Does not violate open publication license?
Tutorial Content(Quiz Removed)
Course Management
System
Upload
Re-created
Dual Model
Quiz
Tutorial Content[External Web Server]
Dual Model
• Requires maintenance of two identical tutorials
• Does not violate open publication license?
How we did it?
2003 Computers in Libraries article
• Remove extraneous features and items from sequential Web site
• Remove and recreate assessment in Blackboard
• Create directional flow with JavaScript and Flash
• Get TILT content out of limited frame—JavaScript pop-up
How we did it?
2003 Computers in Libraries article
• Remove branding from sequential Web site
• Remove and recreate assessment in Blackboard
• Create directional flow with JavaScript and Flash
• Get TILT content out of limited frame—JavaScript pop-up
Blackboard Modules
Upload Web site (Course Documents)
Announcements
Course Calendar
Gradebook
Assessment Manager
Digital Drop Box
Discussion Board
Virtual Classroom
(Collaboration)
Design (Cont.)
Blackboard Modules
Upload Web site (Course Documents)
Gradebook
Assessment Manager
Design (Cont.)
Here’s how it looks to a student…
How to use TILT Board?
• CMS, including Blackboard allow power users to share content between courses
• Importing and exporting takes some work—I’m not going to try to kid you
• If you know the how TILT Board is structured—it makes it much easier
TILT Board
(Quiz Removed)
Course Management
System
Import
Quiz
How to use TILT Board?
Import
How to use TILT Board?
• You would expect to import the TILT tutorial first, and the assessment second—but its just the opposite
• The sequence of importing these two pieces is somewhat counter-intuitive
• You import content in two major pieces—the assessment, and the actual TILT content
How to use TILT Board?
• Why this backwards approach—it ultimately has to do with linking and making a seamless connection between the TILT content and the assessment
How to use TILT Board?
• Last, you import the TILT Board tutorial
• With this URL, you establish a link between the tutorial content and the assessment (this link needs to be made outside of Blackboard)
• You must first import the assessment—With this action you are establishing an address or URL in Blackboard
Step 1: Importing TILT Board Assessment into your Blackboard course
Step 2: Make the TILT Board Assessment “available”
Step 3: Establishing a link between the Assessment and the TILT Content
Step 4: Import the TILT Content into Blackboard
How to use TILT Board?
TILT Board—Needed Improvements
• Improved assessment, initial assessment, and more questions
• Wider adoption (perhaps mandatory adoption) through our FYE courses
• Eliminate pop-up JavaScript
• Integrate TILT Board into more content-level courses
Kvavik, Robert; Caruso, Judith. ECAR Study of Students and Information Technology, 2005: Convenience, Connection, Control, and Learning. http://www.educause.edu/ers0506/ Nov. 20, 2005
Roberts, Gary. "The Yin and Yang of Integrating Course Management With Information Literacy Tutorials", Computers In Libraries, September 2003, v. 23 no.8, p. 10
Roberts, Gary and Pival, Paul. The Distant Librarian: Comments on the world of Distance Librarianship. http://distlib.blogs.com/distlib/gary_roberts/. Nov. 20, 2005
Roberts, Gary. TILTBoard@Alfred University. http://www.herr.alfred.edu/TILT/Archive_Download.asp