Toledo @ Association KU Leuven

Toledo @ Association KU Leuven

Bart D’haenens

HUB-KAHO

04/06/2014

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Almost all slides come from presentations provided by KU Leuven ICTS / Toledo-team

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Association KU Leuven

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Topics

• Toledo in a nutshell

• Technical perspective

• Support perspective

• Educational perspective

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Toledo in a nutshell

• Toetsen en leren doeltreffend ondersteunen

• To support testing and learning in an

efficient way

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Toledo in a nutshell

Would you like some screenshots?

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Toledo as a process

KU Leuven

2001 2004 2008 2010 2012 2013

Association Integration Clustering

KU Leuven starts

using Blackboard

Some institutions for higher

education have their own VLE

Study group starts to

see if “working

together” is an option

Institutions join Toledo in

different waves using very

different processes and

systems

Partners join SAP as

core master data for

administrative processes

All master programs in

higher education become

part of the university

A centralized IAM

manages access

Institutions for higher

education merge into

larger entities

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Toledo as a philosophy

• To work together in the field of e-learning

• To create a professional learning

environment for students throughout their

studies

• To create a learning portal for the

institutions, with a link to the Association

• To stimulate collaboration between different

institutions

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Toledo as a philosophy

• Faculty is free to use Toledo or not but all

communication must go through Toledo

(students push)

• Local installations of institution wide LMSs

are not allowed

• Every “learning activity” gets a course

• A stable system demands less support and

creates happier users

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Toledo a bit more technical

• Hope you don’t ask me to much about this

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Toledo as a network

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Toledo as an integrated environment

Would you like some screenshots?

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Layered support structure

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Toledo as a team

• 6 developers (data integration & projects)

• 4 application specialist 3rd level support

• 2 system engineers

• You should really meet

• Leen Van Rentergem

• Wim Machiels

http://www.kuleuven.be/wieiswie/en/person/00025349


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Deelgroep Toledo - Organization

• Representatives

• 2 members from Toledo-team

• 1 member for each institution

• 1 member for each KU Leuven Group

• 1 member from KU Leuven Kortrijk

• 1 member from KU Leuven Multimedia unit

• Monthly meetings

• Use of shared Blackboard community

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Deelgroep Toledo - Activities

• Project / Change management

• Recurrent: summer course roll over, upgrades

• Unique: SAP, integration, clustering…

• Request fulfilment

• Requests <10days through forum

• Acceptance, alternatives and workload

• Requests >10days through project proposals

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Deelgroep Toledo - Activities

• Follow-up of projects related to

• Toledo competency network, IT-supported

examination, personal learning environment,

electronic portfolio, mobile technology,

collaboration and communication, people and

information profiling and educational resources

repository

• Common set of documentation

• Toledopedia

• Students’ manual

• Teachers’ manual

https://wiki.associatie.kuleuven.be/toledopedia/

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Toledo Local Admins

• Staff at faculties or institutions

• Trained in the usage of blackboard

• Have knowledge of administration

• Sometimes also educational support staff

• Work closely with local ICT service desk

• Know opportunities and challenges for users

• Have extra administrative tools

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Institutional focus groups

• Different names

• E-learning workgroup

• ICT in Education workgroup

• Local admin meetings

• Transfer of information and knowledge

• From Deelgroep Toledo to Local Admins

• As well as from teachers, students to

representative in Deelgroep Toledo

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Students, faculty and other staff

• To be released one of these days

Toledo Voting Board

• Send us your suggestions

• We’ll put in on the voting board

• Other students and staff can vote on it

• Toledo team and Deelgroep Toledo

• Pick up highest voted suggestions

• Get them onto the planning

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Toledo as a learning environment

face-2-face

2001 2014

distance blended

multicampus

Every learning activity

= one course

Specific e-learning modules

for specific target groups

Full programs offered in blended

learning format

Initiatives to create programs or

learning activities across campuses

Courses Communities B-courses Redesign?

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Q & A

• You should really ask

• Leen Van Rentergem

• Wim Machiels

• Bart D’haenens

• bart.dhaenens at hubkaho.be

