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WordPress in Higher Ed:
Courses, Programs & the Future
Barish GollandLearning Ecosystems Support & Solutions ManagerSauder Learning Services
@BarishGolland, @UBCSauderLS
UBC’s Learning
Technology Ecosystem:
Where WordPress fits in
WordPress/Blackboard
integration in a Large
Course
WordPress Master Blog
embedded in a Blackboard Course
WordPress “Backchannel” blog
embedded in a Blackboard Course
WordPress/Blackboard
integration patterns
WordPress/Blackboard
Program Level example
WordPress Program level Blog
embedded in a Blackboard
Course
Secondary Co-curricular Blog
with LearnDash modules
embedded in a BB Course
xAPI (experience API)
integration into LRS
(Learning Record Store)
Course Blog
xAPI
Statement
Learning Record Store
(LRS)
Student views
blog
xAPI JSON
Statement Created
(actor, verb, object) xAPI
Statements
stored here
Data
Visualization via
Tableau,
assembled with
data points from
other sources
Learning Analytics setup using xAPI
in WordPress
Backend xAPI Plugin in WP
Custom built WP
Plugin that allows xAPI
statements generated
in WP to push to
specific node in LRS
UBC Faculty of Arts course
blog examples
UBC’s new “Course
Spaces” – WordPress
designed for
Instructors/Students
Spaces
• New Course blog site designed for
instructors / courses
• CTLT coded plugin/theme from ground up
• Quizzing, progress bars, assignment
submissions, modular build, note taking,
handouts area, discussion forum
• xAPI / LRS ready (Learning Analytics)
Mobile friendly, simple user interface
Appendix: More notes/
screenshots of Course
Spaces
