Technology Enhanced Learning Capabilities at UQ

• System usage rates• Our current capabilities• Capabilities coming-up• Current adoption rates• What next? • Discussion - E-exams

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How Many People on Campus? Oct 2011 QUEENSLAND CENTRE FOR POPULATION RESEARCH – UQ

System usage rates – Compared to campus

Discrete people - Measured in Week 3 – Semester 2

Blackboard is a significant UQ web site

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System usage rates – Web pages served

System usage rates – Lecture viewsLecture viewing has almost doubled in a single year…

System usage rates – Assignment submission

Our current capabilities

elearning.uq.edu.au

Our eLearning Capabilities

Course Level, Enterprise Level, In Deployment, In Development.

Our eLearning Capabilities

Course Level, Enterprise Level, In Deployment, In Development.

• Collect and distribute assignments • Provide faster feedback to students• Enhance revision - (Instructional video)• Enhance the face to face experience - (UQpoll)• Engage with remote or working students - (Adobe

Connect)• Allow students to measure their progress - (Online

tests)• Communicate with students• Engage students in online group interactions-

(Blackboard Groups)

Our eLearning Capabilities

Course Level, Enterprise Level, In Deployment, In Development.

• Reach New Markets• Protect Course Diversity through Collaboration• Improve Student Retention with Analytics• Improve Equity for Students• Support Industry Placements• Engage with Catchment Schools

Our eLearning Capabilities

Course Level, Enterprise Level, In Deployment, In Development.

• Portable assignment grading and feedback (iPad)• Ability to analyse student consumption of lecture

recordings and instructional video (Echo/Kaltura)• Advanced in-class student response system -

Responseware• More training opportunities centred around helping

instructors through the change: Blackboard Basics, Basics for Professional Staff, Online Assignments; What's new in Blackboard…

• Identification of at-risk students – Retention Centre• Marking non-text assignments - E-Assessment inside

Blackboard: • Many more: improved discussion boards, dual screen

lecture capture, LOR, badges, etc..

Ability to analyse student consumption of lecture recordings and instructional video (Echo/Kaltura)

See number of plays…

See when the video is played during the semester…

See which student played it, how many times, and for how long

In Kaltura now and in Echo from November

Combine with a quiz to measure engagement.

Our eLearning Capabilities

Course Level, Enterprise Level, In Deployment, In Development.

From Blackboard:• Course oversight dashboard (HOS, Deans etc)• Grades published direct to SI-net• Learning Object Repository• Improved user experience

Outside Blackboard• Lecture recording expansion• New course archiving to maintain materials for life of

degree• A range of new capabilities according to faculty needs

(discussed below)

Lecture Recording Opportunity

• Currently 40% of UQ’s 1600 courses /sem are recorded• We can add more safe capture devices @ $5.5K/room • Expect a move to pre-recorded learning material and rooms used

for active learning

ECHO “Safe Capture” devicesin theatres larger than 75 seats:

100 theatres now

ECHO “Classroom Capture” via lectern PC+ more Safecapture devices

+ pre-recorded material (PCAP/Kaltura)

100%

Now - 40%

Possible - 80%

Current Adoption Rates - Semester 1 - 2013

Elearning 1.0 Replicating Didactic Learning

Elearning 2.0Constructivist Learning - Social Networking

Elearning 3.0Collaborative/Mobile Learning - Anywhere, Anytime, Anyone

Course Profiles 100%

Announcements 95%

Learning Materials 97%

Lecture Recordings (40%) Safecapture, PCAP, Kaltura

Online Assignments (82%)

• 320K total online/yr ++

• 230K via Turnitin

• 71.7K marked via Turnitin

• …up from 44.2K in 2012

Quiz/Test/Exam (14%) ++

Discussion boards (51% active of 100% created)++

Wikis/Blogs/Journals 9%

Social media integration – YouTube, Flickr (6%) ++

Peer Assessment ++ (need group capability)

Student video assessable material ++

BYOD 91% ++

Blackboard Mobile 10%

Virtual Classroom 5% +++

In-Class eTools for the F2F part of Blended Learning:

• Student response systems (8%) = UQPoll, + Responsware

• Shared Whiteboards

• Group Management tools ++

• MOOCs

Rubens, N., et al. (2011). E-Learning 3.0 anyone, anywhere, anytime, and AI. In International Workshop on Social and Personal Computing for Web-Supported Learning Communities (SPeL 2011) (December 2011).

What next? Collecting Ideas…

• Faculty surveys• Helpdesk 40 interactions/day• Staff training (1100/year)• Operational forum – with faculty reps• Bbug meetings – with other universities• Instructor surveys• T&L & TEL meetings• Elearning Strategy Committee• Conferences

An Elearning Helpdesk Week…

We get to hear what academics want and need through many contacts every day.

UQ students use our LMS more often than they do Facebook or our Library databases

based on 5000+ responses

UQ Student Survey - Mid 2012…

Faculties give feedback on their priorities…

Progress is tracked…

Asking faculties for 2014 priorities now…

• General change management support (local training, demonstrations etc.)

• Large Classes: Peer Assessment – Contribution to group work.

• Large Classes: Peer Assessment – Student assessment of each other’s work.

• Large Classes: Team/group focused collaborative solutions that support

• Large Classes: Peer review and collaborative writing in large cohorts

• Course communication and Q&A for effective support and peer assistance

• Creating and sharing sketches, diagrams, maths and symbols online

• ePortfolios (eg evidence repository, Student showcase, reflection tool, assessment tracking)

• E-exam software

• Rubric examples: create a shared repository (resource) , which contains Rubrics used within the university.

• Advice on how to devise a Rubric..Online invigilation service

• BYOD policy and equity program

• In-classroom tools for teaching and collaboration (e.g. screen sharing software, free text response etc.)

• Content management system

Many more…

E-exams – Issues and Discussion

Impetus• UQ is low on exam space• Instructors are experimenting with e-exams – e.g. UQBS;

Pharmacy • Some universities are adopting online proctoring: Penn State,

Harvard Distance Ed, Edx is using Pearson

Should UQ go down this track?

Advantages: Less printing or space; richer test experience (e.g. randomised question pools, heat-map questions etc.)

Challenges: Which computer (Lab/Test Centre/BYOD); Which proctor (UQ/collaborative/external); Identification of students online; Cost (Now $10+bld, Online Proctor:$60/student, Test Centre: $400/exam)

Thoughts?

Full Report

Questions?