EDTECH Conference May 16, 2008

University of Massachusetts Boston

o Susan Mraz, Hispanic Studies, UMass Boston

o Kathleen Polley, Online RN-to-BS Program, College of Nursing and Health

Sciences, UMass Bostono Anthony Petruzzi,

Writing Assessment, UMass Bostono Cynthia Jahn,

Academic Support Subject Tutoring Program, UMass Bostono Jessica Downa,

IT, Educational Technology, UMass Bostono Mary Simone,

IT, Educational Technology, UMass Boston

June 1st, 2007- May 31, 2008Objective Due Date Output Date

CompletedSlippage Change to

objectives

Purchase Mac Xserve & Server Configuration

8/13/07 Server Set up in Data Center Blogs/ Wikis & Open Directory

11/16/07 None Hired grad student for development work

Set- up Vista 4 Wimba Classrooms

7/2/07 Nursing and Spanish 9/20/07 Early Delivery Select fewer Wimba voice tools

Create Portal for access to tools

9/19/07 Web portal linked to Vista

11/03/07 1 month Work around, webpage used as portal

All course content ready

1/2/08 All content added to BLS

Ongoing 1 Month 4 weeks of content by Jan 3rd

Tutors Hired and Trained

1/23/08 Workshops delivered 1/3/081/16/082/18/08218-3/24/08

On Scheduletechnology and pedagogy into workshops

Added Tutor training in February(review of Jan workshops) Added Student workshops February and March

Launch Pilots 2/08/082/12/08

Online tutoring sessions

Ongoing- May 14th

None

Evaluation and Assessment

5/25/08 Student and Tutor feedback

5/11/08

Phase 1- Project Planning & Technology Fit

Wimba Voice ToolsAll of Wimba’s voice tools were investigated for this project, but only 3 made the cut.

oVoice Boardo Voice Email oWimba Podcaster

BlackBoard/WebCTUMass Boston’s LMS was used to create classrooms for students and tutors.

Xserv Blogs & WikisThrough the grant a Mac Xserv was purchased to host a variety of collaboration tools including Blogs and Wikis.

Wimba Live ClassroomWimba’s Live classroom was used for students and tutors to hold synchronous sessions.

Technologies

Phase 2- Content Development & Web Portal

Web PortalA website portal was created to give easy access to all of the tools and resources used in the project.

TutorialsA series of screen cast tutorials was developed for the students and tutors in the use of all of our technologies.

• Phase 3- BLS DesignNursing

Spanish

Phase 4- Training ◦ Hire and Train Tutors◦ Tutor Workshops for Content Areas

Phase 5- Project Launch: Spring 2008 ◦ Outreach to on-line students◦ Add student tutoring workshops

Phase 6- Evaluation and Assessment◦ Tutors

Evaluate and assess their technology training and literacy to perform on-line tutoring Evaluate and assess of on-line tutoring functionality to meet student learning needs

◦ Students Evaluate and assess ease of use and functionality of technology to access on-line tutoring. Evaluate and assess the effect of on line tutoring on performance.

Without Online Tutoring With Online Tutoring

65%75%

Technology

Pass Rate WPE

Student Usage of On-line tutoring

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1015202530

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Nursing

Spanish

o Enable students work one on one with another person to learn how to reflect on their work in a social situation.

o Get students actively involved in thinking about their own writing

o Provide students access to study materials during synchronous sessions

o Provide students and tutors with records of synchronous Spanish and Nursing tutoring sessions for review

o Expand hours of tutoring availability

Animation by John Mazz

Sustained programmatic connection to writing in Nursing

Sustained programmatic connection to speaking, listening and writing in Spanish

Expand online tutoring to additional areas Continue to develop tutor and student

support Continue to evaluate development and

process to build an online tutoring infrastructure

A Media Center Production 2008