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Improve Student Collaboration & Engagement Across All Study Modes
Lindsey Collins
Blackboard Collaborate
About Me
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Education is Changing
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By 2020, 6.5M students will be enrolled in fully-online programmes, generating $150B in student
tuition revenue.
Education is Changing
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Virtual Learning Today
The year when connected mobile devices surpassed the
number of people on Earth
Mobile VIDEO traffic accounts for over half of all
wireless traffic.
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Traditional Classroom
Teacher’s Role:
“Sage on the Stage”
Flipped Classroom
Teacher’s Role:
“Guide on the Side”
Education is Expanding & Changing – The Flipped Classroom
Flipped Results
http://www.knewton.com/flipped-classroom/
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Virtual Learning Today
• Institutions want to have an online presence– % of students online
– Blended
– 2 or 3 subjects that are 100% online
• Why?– Increasing enrolments across courses
– The student wants their institution to be flexible
– Lack of space and resources
– Human element is moving online
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Different Modes of Study to cater…
• Providing flexible offerings– Part-time/ Full-Time
– Internal/External
– Mixed Modes of Study
• Meeting the needs for those…– Adult Learners
– Students who need to work for an income
– Where location is an issue
– Institutions workforce
– International students
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Swinburne University
• Increased access to online courses– 8% in 2012
• To reach– 20% by 2015
– 50% by 2020
• http://www.swinburne.edu.au/transforming/news/archive/2020-Plan-and-Transforming-Swinburne-VC-presentation-Feb-2013.pdf
Collaboration is not only about the Technology…
Collaboration is also about the people
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Technology at Institutions today
Campus 2 Mobile Access Remote Learner
Video Conference
Main Campus
Polycom / Tandberg
were does learning and colloration happen?
How How can technology help?
• Virtual Learning Environments
• Recorded Lectures
• Virtual Office Hours
• Student to student interaction
• Familiar interface
were does learning and collaboration happen?
How How can technology help?
• Blackboard Collaborate Web Conferencing
were does learning and collaboration happen?
How How can technology help?
• Blackboard Enterprise Instant Messaging
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCW5J1Ot2Jo
were does learning and collaboration happen?
How How can technology help?
• Integration with LMS
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Becoming Effective with Virtual Learning
• Be engaging
• Prepared content – PLAN!
• Foster student to student interaction
• Creating reusable content
• Remember your not face 2 face
• Blackboard Collaborate Champion Kit
Some of our clients…
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How some of our clients conduct virtual learning
• Charles Darwin University– Created Bb Collaborate Teaching Spaces
– Interacting with physical and virtual whiteboard
– Multiple cameras between audience and academic
– Internal and external students in the same classroom
– Via ANY device
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How some of our clients conduct virtual learning
• Open University UK– Providing a high quality education to those who
might otherwise be excluded
– Enhancing student experience by delivering synchronous collaborate system-wide for distance learning
– OU highest student satisfaction rating 3 years running in national survey
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How some of our clients conduct virtual learning
• QUT – Using technology to deliver large lectures and reach more students
– 220 students online simultaneously
– Fully interactive
– Does it work? YES!
”Students become co‐creators of lecture content, which
supports a constructivist approach to student learning,
making unit content more relevant and engaging.”
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Thank You!
