WAOL Advisory Group

Monday, August 20, 2012

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Agenda:• State Authorization • Blackboard Collaborate Check-in• Tegrity Check-in• ANGEL Check-in• eLearning Community• Canvas Update• Open Course Library • OCL Research

Next meeting – September 17th – same time, same place

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State Authorization• If you are enrolling students from Maryland, take a look at what you should do

by October 1—their rules change then.• USDOE regulation requiring state authorization was vacated by US District Court

and that ruling was upheld June 5 by the US Court of Appeals, and that ruling remanded to DOE.  So it’s still not over.  However, state laws remain on the books.– The regulation was vacated not because the state laws are illegal but

because the US Dept of Ed didn’t follow the correct process—so it’s just a technical ruling.  Still must be done.

• Remember the requirement to provide complaint contacts for out-of-state students was not vacated. This is for all students.

– http://wcetblog.wordpress.com/2011/07/19/federal-student-complaint-regulation-%E2%80%93-clarifying-misconceptions/  

• More information on this wiki: http://stateregulations.wikispaces.com/

 

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– V 11 Instructions here: (Search the WAOL Blog • http://blog.waol.org/

http://waol.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/creating-and-using-a-virtualoffice-with-blackboard-collaborate.pdf

– Here is the free app for Collaborate Mobile for V12: http://iTunes.com/apps/blackboardcollaboratemobile

– Collaborate will support Canvas integration (LTI)• We’re working on test access, they’re aiming for August 23 delivery

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Tegrity Check-inWe’re working with Canvas and Tegrity to integrate Tegrity, initially with LCC’s installation

Will Tegrity recordings migrate to Canvas?--We think so if the user ID remains the

SID or EID

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Tegrity Training

• Desktop Training: http://pages.tegrity.com/desktoptrainingseries.html

• Training Videos: http://www.youtube.com/tegritynw

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ANGEL Check-in– ANGEL 8.0 Upgrade – Sept 10th

– Hosting changes, last Friday

– Get ANGEL help at: http://www.waol.org/help

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…is currently on summer break, sessions resume September 20th

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http://elearninginwa.blogspot.com/

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Canvas Update and Notes• MOU

• SB eLearning Canvas: sbctc.instructure.com– SBCTC1 & SBCTC2 available for testing– Pilots may be done on SBCTC, under sub-account

• Courses– Get your courses into the right Canvas environment – Export and Import course content

• SIS Integration– New system, run in parallel with SMS-ANGEL– Split your courses between ANGEL and Canvas

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Open Course Library• Tom Caswell just took a job with WGU as

Director of Instructional Design• Boyoung Chae will be interim manager of the

OCL  bchae@sbctc.edu

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OCL Research• The purpose of the study is to investigate the adoption

of Open Course Library (OCL) courses within the WA CTC system.

– How and to what extent, are open course materials being shared and used?

– What are the barriers or keys to the successful adoption of open course materials?

– What institutional policies are needed to support the adoption and use of open course materials?

– How does the use of open course materials influence student success?

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Research Method• Qualitative Study

– Focus group with faculty who have experience with OCL course materials

– Follow-up phone interviews with focus group participants

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Focus Group at Tacoma CC• Participants: 10 faculty members who have

experience with OCL course materials to any extent

• 1 hour focus group, followed by 30 minutes phone interview

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Preliminary finding 1• Those who decided to adopt the OCL

materials liked:– OCL materials being offered as a whole

package– OCL courses offers low cost textbook– Proper institutional support. – OCL course quality was impressive

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Preliminary finding 2• Those who decided not to adopt the OCL

materials encountered the barriers including:– OCL courses resides in ANGEL. – OCL courses did not offer low cost textbook. – Did not receive proper institutional support. – OCL course quality was not very impressive.

• Outdated resources• Course objectives were not aligned with course

content• Course did not utilize the proper open resources

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Preliminary finding 3• What faculty consider keys to successful

adoption– A community of OCL users– A system where they can continuously

improve these courses. – More connection with the authors to ask

questions or suggest ideas.

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Take Aways:

September 17th , 2012, 11:00 to noon on Blackboard Collaborate

information on this web site:http://waol.org/faculty_and_staff/WAOLAdvisory.aspxRecordings on WAOL Blog:http://waol.org

Please forward invitations to others on your campus who might be interested.

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