Clicks & Mortar Conference
Presentations from the 2010 NC3ADL Conference “Clicks and Mortar.”
Future Economics of Learning Technology – Dr. Randall
We are living through interesting times in which colleges and educational systems struggle to meet increasing student and instructor instructional technology needs within the reality of budget cuts. System-wide learning infrastructure established in the past 2 to 4 years has been able to support over one half million distance learning curriculum enrollments in 2009. According to enrollment projections, distance learning enrollments have not peaked – in fact are increasing at an accelerated rate.
How can we provide more learning technology support with a finite level of funding? Is there a more appropriate business model to provide more resources for less money? The answer is YES. However, this emerging business model will require a fundamental shift in how we, as DL professionals, view technology procurement, governance, collaboration, and control.
This session will describe such an alternative business model for learning technology for the NCCCS.
This workshop will illustrate some basic methods that anyone can implement to help create more accessible Word documents. Many of the techniques discussed will also apply to other applications, such as HTML. You will recognize similar features in your course management system’s html editor and other programs you use for content development. Two products can look identical to the human eye, but while one might meet strict accessibility standards, the other might fail miserably.
The fact is that computers can’t see; they read code, and many people with disabilities use assistive devices to see for them by reading code. When documents are poorly formatted, this creates a barrier for the user’s ability to understand the organization and flow of content and it can make the simple task of scanning for content incredibly tedious.
This session will identify some formatting techniques that everyone should use, simply because they provide proper structure to a document. A properly structured document also will better meet accessibility standards and allow for more efficient exporting as other formats. When content starts out poorly formatted in Word, the exported product will be equally lacking. We’ll also look at some of Word’s built-in tools that can make your formatting life easier and save you a lot of time.
Finally, you’ll learn how easy it is to use a free Word add-in that enables you to save your well-formatted documents as accessible digital talking books.
Distance Education Program Development-W. Barker
This session will help you to assess your current Distance Learning program and guide you into the next decade. Strategic planning for the future of distance programs at your campus is a critical factor for DL Administrators. You will learn to project future enrollments and plan for all of the components that make up a quality distance learning program. This session will help DL staff do projections for DL growth for their college in Excel. Learn to develop a strategic plan for their DL program.
At the end of this session, the learner will be able to: Define distance learning, Identify DL delivery methods, Discuss the incidence of DL in postsecondary institutions, Identify the challenges of DL, Describe characteristics of DL students, Identify the advantages of DL, Identify the disadvantages of DL, Discuss retention as it relates to DL, Discuss strategies to reduce attrition in DL courses, Describe best practices for DL faculty, Identify resources for NCCCS DL faculty, Identify tools for enhancing DL courses.
Explore online chemistry and biology science simulations used by the North Carolina Community College System. Find out how to use Late Nite Labs in a tradional and online environment; how to customize your science labs; and hear from instructors how this resource impacts student learning. These online labs may be customized and saved in each instructor’s account and used as a prelab or full lab to fulfill course requirements. Student lab data provides information to track student learning and respond to individual needs.
This presentation will discuss useful hints, tips and tricks of administrating a Moodle instance. The topics covered will focus around the Distance Learning/ Learning Management System Administrator role at a higher education institution but can be applied to any Moodle installation. Tips for user enrollment, course creation, course/curriculum management and Blackboard course migration will be included in this presentation. Participants will be able to take the tips they learn from this presentation and apply the changes to their own Moodle installations.
The North Carolina Learning Object Repository (NCLOR) collects documents, audio/video clips, simulations, learning modules, assessments, and more virtually any type of learning resource that can be digitized and processed. Teachers from around the state can then search the LOR, find materials appropriate to the classes they are teaching, and use them as is or modify them to suit their needs.
The NCLOR is designed to increase the efficiency and productivity of K-20 teachers across North Carolina by providing them with an online location to store and share their learning resources. Additionally, the repository contains many professionally developed resources that are immediately available to CC faculty.
The presentation will introduce educators to the LMS integration and contribution aspects of the NCLOR. By the end of the presentation, it is hoped that more faculty will plan to use the NCLOR and appreciate how a central repository can benefit faculty across North Carolina.
The North Carolina Learning Object Repository (NLCOR) is a project of the NCCCS and a collaborative effort between the Community Colleges, UNC system, DPI, NC Virtual Public School, and Independent Colleges and Universities. This provides a direct benefit to teachers and students in increased efficiency, quality, and engaging learning activities. Centralization and duplication reduction is especially important during a time of economic hardship.
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The North Carolina Learning Object Repository (NCLOR) collects documents, audio/video clips, simulations, learning modules, assessments, and more virtually any type of learning resource that can be digitized and processed. Teachers from around the state can then search the LOR, find materials appropriate to the classes they are teaching, and use them as is or modify them to suit their needs.
The NCLOR is designed to increase the efficiency and productivity of K-20 teachers across North Carolina by providing them with an online location to store and share their learning resources. Additionally, the repository contains many professionally developed resources that are immediately available to CC faculty.
The presentation will introduce educators to the LMS integration and contribution aspects of the NCLOR. By the end of the presentation, it is hoped that more faculty will plan to use the NCLOR and appreciate how a central repository can benefit faculty across North Carolina.
The North Carolina Learning Object Repository (NLCOR) is a project of the NCCCS and a collaborative effort between the Community Colleges, UNC system, DPI, NC Virtual Public School, and Independent Colleges and Universities. This provides a direct benefit to teachers and students in increased efficiency, quality, and engaging learning activities. Centralization and duplication reduction is especially important during a time of economic hardship.
raising_the_bar-L. Stover
Have you ever wanted to implement all of those distance learning best practices you learned in the dozens of workshops you’ve attended? This is exactly what one instructor and one instructional designer set out to do last year. This session, presented by the instructional designer for the team, focuses on why they decided to submit a course for a Blackboard Catalyst Award, how they used the quality rubric to ensure all standards had been met, and how they benefited from going through the process.
Each year, Blackboard calls for submissions for its Exemplary Course Program. Submissions are rated by other instructors and instructional designers using a detailed quality rubric that focuses on four major areas: course design, interaction & collaboration, assessment, and learner support.
The process of designing a course based on a rubric can be challenging and rewarding. It is as much a learning process as a demonstration of skill. This session will walk workshop attendees through the course design and will highlight a few activities and features that received especially high ratings that clinched the award.
It is hoped that since most online course rubrics address similar standards, that this session will help others make a connection between theory and practice and perhaps inspire them to submit their own exemplary courses for similar awards.
Test Question Migration to Moodle – the EASY
At PCC, Respondus has proven to be a crucial piece of software for our Bb to Moodle migration. Respondus 4.0 provides faculty with an easy, painless way to move their existing Bb test banks into Moodle. Respondus can also be used to import questions from other test bank engines as well as Word documents. During this session, a demonstration of the Bb to Moodle question migration will be given and all participants will receive a copy of PCC’s customized, step-by-step instruction manual. This session will also feature several FREE copies of Respondus to be given away as door prizes. Please note that this is not a “vendor” sales pitch session – instead it’s a discussion of how we’ve used this software at PCC. Tests_Bb_to_Moodle
Moodle Gradebook
Want to set up Weighted Grading in your Moodle 1.9 courses? This session will discuss the correct setup of the categories and subcategories needed for weighted grading. Other grade book topics may be discussed such as dropping the lowest grade, displaying a student’s rank and other best practices for working in the grade book. Participants will receive a handout with step-by-step directions to help them set up a weighted grade book in their Moodle courses.
Readers will find recommendations on how to ensure academic integrity and prevent student aid fraud as a result of dozens of projects. Included are:
1. Case studies about academic integrity and student aid fraud
2. Survey results of faculty opinions about student identity
3. Student feedback about privacy, proctoring and academic integrity
NC3ADL March 2010 Academic Integrity and Identity in Online Learning
Readers will find recommendations on how to ensure academic integrity and prevent student aid fraud as a result of dozens of projects. Included are:
1. Case studies about academic integrity and student aid fraud
2. Survey results of faculty opinions about student identity
3. Student feedback about privacy, proctoring and academic integrity
Set it and forget it! Populate Blackboard and Moodle with Course and User Data from Colleague
Are you manually uploading batch files for your users and enrollments to Blackboard or Moodle? Ouch! You could have new users created automatically! And enrolled in their online courses! And block or remove dropped students from their online courses! But wait, there’s more! This process can be used to create courses, copy courses, enroll faculty in courses, turn courses on and off by date, and more!, Just set it up at the beginning of the semester, and you can: set it and forget it – all these updates will happen every day without you lifting a finger! Now how much would you pay? Just kidding, it’s free! In this session I’ll describe how Cape Fear CC is synchronizing daily with Colleague to create new users, classes, and update enrollments on Blackboard and Moodle.
The software developed at CFCC is freely available to other schools, as is advice on how to implement the synchronization. Pulling data automatically straight from Colleague improves data accuracy and currency, while reducing manual tasks for staff.
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