e-learning effort@NIE

e-learning @ NIE

Presented bySally Loan & Wan Fareed

Centre for e-LearningNational Institute of Education, Singapore

Social Media• Twitter Hashtag

#sunbb

• Blackboard Practitioners Sharing Session - Nov 2012

http://bit.ly/PirC07

• Slideshare Presentation

http://bit.ly/sunbb

Agenda

• About NIE

• About CeL

• e-Learning / Blended Learning

• Strategies

• Building CeL’s Capacity

3 mins

http://bit.ly/sunbbvideo1

About NIE

We are a national teacher training institute in Singapore.

Teacher education Educational research

NIE Population

437 academic staff

434 non-academic 167 research staff

6,567 students

Programme & Academic Groups

• 12 Academic Groups

• Teacher Education and Undergraduate Studies

• Graduate Studies and Professional Learning

About CeL

Mission

•Support, initiate and sustain e-learning

•Enhance the quality of online teaching and learning via the provision of resources, pedagogical consultancy and training.

Overview

Department Structure

Dr Ashley Tan

Instructional Designers

Educational Technologists

Video Content Developers

Multimedia Developers

Multimedia Programmers

e-learning / blended learning @ NIE

e-learning / blended learning : Why?

IT Masterplan

e-learning @ NIE

Computer Services Centre

Centre for User Support

http://lonline.nie.edu.sg

Housekeeping

Course creation

User creation

• Profile is fed into Blackboard from various systems

• Receive SMS regarding login

• Automatically enrolled to the courses they have selected

User creation(Student)

• Profile is fed into Blackboard from HR system

• Welcome package includes blackboard login info

• Automatically assigned to the courses they are teaching

User creation(Staff)

User creation(P/T Tutor)

• Manual creation upon request

• Once account is created, course coordinator can assign them to courses

• Info fed from various programme office

• Courses are created one month before term starts

• Auto extension of 3 months

• Tutorial courses, ztrial course and ztrial student account for academic staff

Course creation

• Courses will be automatically unavailable when courses expire

• Students have no access to expired courses

• Deletion of old courses, keep only 2 years

Housekeeping

To create blended and e-learning opportunities through social media tools

To cultivate academic generosity through sharing via open source tools

http://bit.ly/nie-itunesu

http://bit.ly/cc-nie

To orchestrate the development of apps for e-learning on various mobile devices and platforms

Strategies

Approaches

• Scans for emerging technologies & strategies

• Offers eclectic choice of workshops

• Elevates skill & knowledge

Approach

Create a platform

for staff to share

Approach

Build community of practice

Approach

Potentiate awareness

Approach

Encourage

open learning

Approach

Equip with necessary

technical skilling

Showcases technology integrated strategies

2 mins

http://bit.ly/sunbbvideo3

Approaches

• Elevate their skill set to be in tandem to the changing needs

• As a proxy to create awareness to academic staff

• To bridge the gap between veteran and junior staff

Approaches

• Introduce them to current / emerging technologies

• Requirement as part of their learning activities

• To build a pool of students who can then share with their peer on the acquired skill and knowledge

• Provide resources and tools

AG e-Champions

Senior Management

Centre for e-Learning

Approaches

• Create awareness

• Connect with user informally

• Reach wider audience

1 min

http://bit.ly/sunbbvideo4

Building CeL’s Capacity

Approaches

• Keep abreast of trends

• Challenge staff to innovate

• Provision to pursue personal interest during work hour (10% time policy)

• Allocation of training fund specific to staff development expertise

• Learning by doing

2 mins

http://bit.ly/sunbbvideo5

Thank You

Twitter handler• Sally Loan

@SallyLoan

• Wan Fareed

@wan_fareed

• Centre for e-Learning

cel@nie.edu.sg