THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA Linking a Community of Developers in the WebCT Vista Developers Network: Looking Ahead: What is UBC Looking For(ward.

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Linking a Community of Developers in the WebCT Vista Developers Network:

Looking Ahead: What is UBC Looking For(ward to..) with WebCT Vista?

Michelle Lamberson, Office of Learning TechnologyJim Sibley, Centre for Instructional Support, Applied Science

The University of British Columbia

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Summary

• Motivation• UBC Facts & Figures• The Learning Technology Environment• WebCT Vista Pilot Summary• An Example

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The challenge for higher education

• “The best teachers and researchers should be thinking about how to design courses in which technology enriches teaching rather than substitutes for it. And equally important, faculties need to concern themselves with the need to give their students the tools with which they can explore deeply as well as widely, with which they can discriminate, analyze, and create rather than simply accumulate.”

- The Boyer Commission on Educating Undergraduates in the Research University

- REINVENTING UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION: A Blueprint for America's Research Universities

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The University of British Columbia

• 1,000 acre main campus • 38,500 students, 15 countries• 1183 FT Faculty, 4700 staff• 109 spin-off companies• Very decentralized• Strong executive leadership

•The University of British Columbia, aspiring to be Canada's finest university, will provide students with an outstanding and distinctive education, and conduct leading research to serve the people of British Columbia, Canada, and the world.

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Challenges: InternalUBC is BIG & Decentralized

1968 Photo from UBC Photo Archiveshttp://photos.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/largephoto.cgi?/data1/archives/photos/ubc/AAA-9092-2.tif

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And Expanding…

UBC-Okangan – September 2005

UBC Medical School – September 2004

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UBC LT Organizations

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E-Learning Current and Emerging Areas

• Course Management System • Mixed Mode & Large Enrolment

Course Improvement• Faculty specific issues (e.g.,

Medical School expansion)• Learning Objects• ePortfolios• Social Software• Integrated Lab Network• Tools Development

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E-Learning Tools Development

• ITServices (System Tools)

• Applied Science (Peer evaluation)

• Arts ISIT

– Timeline Tool– WebCT Discussion Object Extractor– http://www.learningtools.arts.ubc.ca – http://www.e-strategy.ubc.ca/

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AT UBC… WebCT System Based Statistics(moving target)

• Version: WebCT Campus Edition 4.1• Pilot of WebCT Vista during 2004-05• Users:

– Number of distinct students accounts: 36,626– Number of guests: 455– Number of distinct designers (not students): 967– Number of distinct designers (just students): 293– Number of distinct TAs: 704– Number of active students Term 2, 2003W: 19,195

Students enrolled in at least one SIS course that is being populated into at least one WebCT course.

– Number of student seats: 125,866– (sum of students in all courses – students are in multiple courses)

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Project Objectives

• Thoroughly investigate WebCT Vista in a real world setting• Evaluate WebCT Vista’s capabilities to ensure it meets UBC’s on-

going requirements for a Course Management System (CMS)• Understand the requirements for operating an enterprise e-

learning system in a multi-campus environment• Increase UBC’s capacity to support e-learning applications by:

– providing professional development of support staff and faculty

– developing case studies that demonstrate key teachings and learning benefits

• Construct a thorough business case for Vista, including the implications for central distributed (decentralized) units

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Migration Strategy

Migration Strategy

Project Scope

Vista Pilot

Hosted Pilot Campus Pilot

Investigate Functionality

Training / Sharing Experiences

Real World Experience &

Feedback

Instructional Support

Requirements

Case Studies:

Course Migration

System Integration (SIS,

CWL, Lib)

Tools Integration Options

Content Repositories

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What do We Need to Integrate?

WebCT

Courses

Course

Course

CourseAdmin

StudentInformation

SystemLibrary

PSFTFM

PSFTHR

Enterprise Systems*

ePortfolios

LO Repository

LO Repository

Pilot Systems

Emerging

Weblogs

Wikis

Community Software (Plone

uPortal

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Example

Vista application integration:

Seamless bi-directional authentication for external applications

Ability to push data and session information to Vista

Ability to make external application Vista aware

Obtain gradebook information, etc.

Vista application integration:

Simple SDK tools and recipes to aid the less sophisticated web developer

Well described development standards that leverage existing standards (IMS, etc.) that can facilitate later application integration

Vista application integration:

Collaboration and group tools Peer evaluation

iPeer developed at UBC – Applied Science Peer editing and review

CPR and Turn-it-In Group file management Group formation (via survey or questionaire)

Beyond Vista’s random or student selected modes Rose-Hulman Application

Blogs and wikis

iPeer : Peer Evaluation Tool

Assignment creation Custom rubric creation Webforms for student submissions Aggregated group results for instructor

User management system Profile management

Reminder scheduling Sending student reminders via email

iPeer V1.0

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Feeling a little stretched…

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Avoid Pitfalls….