1. Collaborate: A Room with a View Gillian Fielding Digital Skills Manager University of Salford T: g_fielding Slides are on SlideShare

2. ABOUT ME Gillian Fielding Digital Skills Manager University of Salford g.d.fielding@salford.ac.uk g_fielding I have used Blackboard for 16 years (since 1998 when it was free!). I can. 3. SALFORD Kings Arms Pub Worlds 1st free public library BBC Media City Emmeline Pankhurst LS Lowry Walter Greenwood Peter Hook Paul Scholes Sir Peter Maxwell Davies 1st gas lit street James Prescott Joule Marx & Engels Albert Finney 4. ABOUT US (UOS) 20000 students, 2000 staff, 250 academic programmes Human Resources DepartmentHuman Resource DevelopmentAcademic DevelopmentDigital Skills Team 5 x Digital Skills trainers including 1 student intern 2 x Academic Developer 2 x Learning Technologists 1 x Learning Systems Technology Manager 1 x Head of Academic Development 5. WHAT WE ARE GOING TO LEARN TODAY? 1. How Salford is strategically embedding Collaborate use across the University. 2. How staff are using Collaborate for different purposes, e.g. marketing, support, teaching and learning, flipping classrooms, blended learning, research, meetings, etc. 3. Some of the benefits and drawbacks. 4. With hints and tips along the way. 6. OUR CHALLENGE To get more out of Collaborate across the University. After all we have it, pay a substantial license fee for it, lets get more out of it. 7. OUR SOLUTION Give an overview of the pieces, processes and/or steps involved in your solution. 8. OUR STRATEGY - 1 No formal (Collaborate) strategy Official launch - Summer School 2013 Target 1 School and 1 Professional Service to embed fully. The School of Built Environment and the Library (Vice Chancellor webinars) (Strategic opportunities or piggy-backing on someone elses work) One step at a time (before the mountain) 9. OUR STRATEGY - 2 Target 1 School and 1 Professional Service to embed fully. The School of Built Environment The Library 10. OUR STRATEGY - 3 Vice Chancellor webinars Topics The Universitys strategic plan 26 attendees Post Graduate Support - tba Benefits: 1. First time use for some staff, 2. First time for Internal Comms Dept 3. First time for me - . 11. OUR STRATEGY - 4 Strategic opportunities or piggy-backing on someone elses work 1. Finance Policy and procedures 2. Personal tutoring 3. Staff Development activities 12. OUR STRATEGY - 5 One step at a time Softly, softly Dont scare staff away Build to up that mountain 13. HERES HOW WE ARE USING COLLABORATE - 1 Name: Helen Parker Role: Skills and Recognition Manager in Student Life Uses: Flipped classroom on Critical Analysis, Planning your Assignment and Academic Writing Skills for UG and PG students Benefits: Available 24/7, Empowers students 14. HERES HOW WE ARE USING COLLABORATE - 2 Bringing the virtual lecturer and virtual participants to the physical participants together. 15. HERES HOW WE ARE USING COLLABORATE - 2 16. HERES HOW WE ARE USING COLLABORATE - 3 Name: Gillian Fielding Role: Lecturer on the PGCAP FDOL module Uses: DL, bringing students virtually into the physical class, Benefits: Practice what we preach, inclusive, taught from anywhere, learn from anywhere, flexible, recorded, edgy! Flexible Distance online 17. HERES HOW WE ARE USING COLLABORATE - 4 Used short videos + Blackboard tests Step towards a flipped classroom model Benefits: (More at http://youtu.be/frJZRajEo_A) Year No. of students over 70% 2013 Over 78% 2014 Over 90% Avg mark Over 70% 2013 57% 64% 2014 22% 42% Huw Morgan, TEL Champion PhD student 18. The student voice from Megan.. I wish everything was flipped. Lecture time can be a lot more productive. Benefits: Grades rose Understood, liked workings out Confidence increased 19. HERES HOW WE ARE USING COLLABORATE - 5 Name: Vicki Hennessy Role: Uses: Marketing and recruitment Benefits: Worldwide access to prospective students 20. HERES HOW WE ARE USING COLLABORATE - 6 Name: Menaha Thayaparen Role: Lecturer Uses: Research Project Partner meetings AND Doctoral School Benefits: Unlimited participants, moderator facility, sharing the mic, whiteboard, recording facility, saves travel costs. 21. HERES HOW WE ARE USING COLLABORATE 7. Virtual Meetings 8. Virtual Conferences 9. Virtual Offices 10.Personal Tutoring 11.Student Support: Accessibility, Careers Guidance 12.Recruitment 22. MEASURING USE More staff are using Collaborate Staff are using Collaborate more 168 staff on the Collaborate mailing list, c120 users Number of virtual offices have increased Difficult to measure Benchmark survey 23. MEASURING USE 0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 Sep-12 Oct-12 Nov-12 Dec-12 Jan-13 Feb-13 Mar-13 Apr-13 May-13 Jun-13 Jul-13 Aug-13 Sep-13 Oct-13 Nov-13 Dec-13 Jan-14 Feb-14 Mar-14 Apr-14 19 41 60 64 83 139 No of virtual offices 24. WHAT BARRIERS? What barriers would you expect? (For staff to use Collaborate?) 25. BARRIERS 1. Awareness 2. Skills 3. Equipment i. Headsets and webcams ii. Teaching room set-up 4. Technical support 5. Confidence 26. BARRIERS 1. Awareness 2. Skills 3. Equipment i. Headsets and webcams ii. Teaching room set-up 4. Technical support 5. Confidence 27. BARRIERS 1. Awareness 2. Skills 3. Equipment i. Headsets and webcams ii. Teaching room set-up 4. Technical support 5. Confidence 28. BARRIERS 1 ACCESSING HEADSETS/WEBCAMS Process 1 - failed 1. Request from ITS 2. ITS delivery and then charge your Dept. New process 1. We suggest our recommended make and model 2. User asks their Purchase Officer to order 3. HOD signs off Plus we have some for loan 29. BARRIERS 1. Awareness 2. Skills 3. Equipment i. Headsets and webcams ii. Teaching room set-up 4. Technical support 5. Confidence 30. BARRIERS 1. Awareness 2. Skills 3. Equipment i. Headsets and webcams ii. Teaching room set-up 4. Technical support 5. Confidence 31. BARRIERS 1. Awareness 2. Skills 3. Equipment i. Headsets and webcams ii. Teaching room set-up 4. Technical support 5. Confidence 32. DO THIS NEXT Whats the ONE thing your audience should do when they get back to their institution? Get the highest level person you can using Collaborate for a briefing session. Set up a virtual office and do virtual meetings. Make sure youve returned the completed BbdT&L2014 evaluation form! 33. THANK YOU AND QUESTIONS! Gillian Fielding Digital Skills Manager University of Salford g.d.fielding@salford.ac.uk g_fielding These slides are on slide sharing with copious notes and links 34. THANK YOU! 35. HERES HOW WE ARE USING COLLABORATE - 2 Name: David Baldry Role: Lecturer Uses: Distance Teaching for PGTs in Facilities and Construction Management Benefits: Engagement with staff and peers, gives a more comparable experience to on- campus courses, attachment to the course