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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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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Topics
• Toledo in a nutshell
• Technical perspective
• Support perspective
• Educational perspective
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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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internet
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Toledo as an integrated environment
Would you like some screenshots?
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Topics
• Toledo in a nutshell
• Technical perspective
• Support perspective
• Educational perspective
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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
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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
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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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Topics
• Toledo in a nutshell
• Technical perspective
• Support perspective
• Educational perspective
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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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Topics
• Toledo in a nutshell
• Technical perspective
• Support perspective
• Educational perspective
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Q & A
• You should really ask
• Leen Van Rentergem
• Wim Machiels
• Bart D’haenens
• bart.dhaenens at hubkaho.be