TLC Asia Pacific Agenda
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Wednesday, 18 August 2021
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| 11:00 am | Welcome to TLC Asia Pacific Speaker: Nicole Wall, Senior Director, Global Client Experience, Blackboard |
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| 11:15 am | Blackboard Corporate Keynote Bill Ballhaus, Chairman, Chief Executive Office & President, Blackboard Kathy Vieira, Chief Strategy & Portfolio Officer, Blackboard Lee Blakemore, Chief Client Officer & President, Global Markets, Blackboard [Add to calendar] Have a question you'd like to ask our leadership team? This is your chance! We're taking in questions prior to the interview and would love your involvement. Ask a question about Blackboard and where we're headed, the company's values and priorities, our product vision and strategy, global partnerships with our clients and many more. You can submit your questions here. |
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| 12:00 pm | Wellness Break | ||
| 12:15 pm | Meeting the Moment - Bringing Forward Innovations in In-Person, Blended, and Online Learning and Support Speaker: Dr. Mark Milliron - Senior Vice President & Executive Dean of the Teachers College, Western Governors University [Add to calendar] To many in education, this last year feels brutal and undeserved. Many are exhausted. Others are angry. Some have suffered devastating personal impacts. But rather than viewing this time as a cruel punishment of horrible happenstance, we should challenge ourselves to engage a process in service of our higher callings in education. We should take a beat, learn more about the inspiring work of our larger education community as together we used an array of in-person, blended, and online tools in innovative ways for learning and student support. In this session we’ll dive deep into these and related topics as we (1) confront the conflation of emergency remote learning with decades of digital-learning practice; (2) explore pandemic-inspired innovations from the pros and those freshly embracing digital tools; and (3) contemplate what we want to bring forward on the road ahead. Finally, we will discuss how we better connect to the aspirations and needs of our students, and figure out how together we can meet this moment and make the road ahead far better than the one behind. |
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| 1:00 pm | Breakout Sessions Track 1: Embracing Organisational Change, Excellence and Leadership Track 2: Optimising the Student Experience Track 3: Designing Innovative Digital Strategies |
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| 6:00 pm | End of Day 1 | ||
| Track 1: Embracing Organisational Change, Excellence and Leadership | |||
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| 1:00 pm – 1:10 pm | Assimilation of EdTech Tools using MCL’s Innovative Learning Approach Speaker: Roel Rodrigo, Malayan Colleges Laguna, Philippines [Add to calendar] This presentation will offer some important insights into how the institution capitalized on educational resources to give the students a meaningful learning experience, and come up with initiatives that will benefit the instructors, the potential learners of the institution, and the community as well. |
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| 1:15 pm – 1:25 pm | Savour the Ultra Learning Experience: Adopting Blackboard Speaker: Vivek Ghai, Chandigarh University, India [Add to calendar] The COVID-19 pandemic changed much about our way of life over the period of covid-19 , and Chandigarh University (CU) has been no exception. What’s not changed was the University’s commitment towards the safety and academic progress of the students. A return to delivering quality education in a manner safeguarding the health and well-being of our entire University community, remained the singular focus. Chandigarh University has adopted the blended teaching learning model through shifting its teaching learning practices and pedagogy on Blackboard Learn LMS. |
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| 1:30 pm – 1:40 pm | Managing Distance Education Using Blackboard During Covid-19 Pandemic Speaker: Husna Hafiza R.Azami, UTMSPACE, Malaysia [Add to calendar] This presentation discloses the practices used by UTMSPACE Digital Learning Division to ensure the delivery and maintenance of high quality education during COVID-19 pandemic. The process involves preparation, monitoring and evaluation. |
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| 1:50 pm – 2:20 pm | Transitioning from Original to Ultra… and Collaborate: The Successes and Lessons Learned in Transitioning over 90% of Subjects to Ultra During a Year of Disruption Speaker: Lauren Hives, Bond University, Australia [Add to calendar] Learn all about Bond University's move to Blackboard Learn Ultra in 2020, including the ups and downs of moving during a very disruptive year. |
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| 2:25 pm – 2:55 pm | Reflections on the Adoption of Blackboard Ally at James Cook University Speaker: Frances Cochrane, James Cook University, Australia [Add to calendar] James Cook University (JCU) is a multi-campus institution located largely in the tropical areas of the Asia-Pacific. As such, JCU has a very diverse student cohort. In an effort to support student diversity and improve the accessibility of digital learning materials, Blackboard Ally was rolled out institution-wide in January 2021. This presentation will share the innovations and approaches we employed in the adoption of Blackboard Ally. We will position our reflections using the four overarching components of the Diffusion of Innovation (DOI) Theory for examining the process of adoption and change. |
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| 2:55 pm | Break: Meet the Teaching & Learning Community | ||
| 3:30 pm – 3:40 pm | Shifting from Traditional Teaching to Online Teaching Speaker: Lokesh Pawar, Chandigarh University, India [Add to calendar] This presentation will cover the acceptance of the change in traditional environment of teaching towards online teaching, resulting in a win-win situation for faculty and students. Take a look at how course creation to course completion, along with analytics make things easier for students and faculty. |
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| 3:45 pm – 3:55 pm | A Case Study on Conducting a Virtual Bootcamp Using Blackboard Learn Speaker: Racheal Poh, INTI International University and Colleges, Malaysia [Add to calendar] Covid-19 has presented a new challenge in teaching, where student engagement remains pivotal in maximizing the students’ learning experience in online learning. Instructors often find students’ disengagement a challenge in the online class and consequently exploring what works and what doesn’t in enabling effective online delivery. This case study presents how a virtual bootcamp, held via Blackboard successfully maximized student engagement at an institutional level. The virtual bootcamp, is a 2 day, online event with two important objectives. Firstly, the faculty aims to bring together students as they have been learning remotely for a long time. The online event allowed high levels of engagement and experience for the students to work on real problems presented by the industry. Secondly, the bootcamp connected the institution and industry in facilitating knowledge exchange and transfer. Industry and university partnership allows both parties to rely on each other for their strengths and inculcate innovation. |
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| 4:05 pm – 4:35 pm | JCU's SaaS Ultra Journey, Beyond Transformation - Using Ultra Effectively Speaker: Sharon Long, James Cook University, Australia [Add to calendar] Our SaaS Ultra Journey - Beyond Transformation. This session will demonstrate how JCU has progressed beyond transformation to the SaaS Ultra platform and how we are using Ultra effectively at our Institution. |
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| 4:40 pm – 5:10 pm | Discover, Dream, Design, Deliver – The Process of Creating Inspirational, Memorable, Engaging & Relevant Online Learning Experiences Speaker: Michelle Katavatis & Lisa Griffith, University of Notre Dame Australia [Add to calendar] The presentation will look at a leadership's role in teaching and learning initiatives, and how these initiatives set out clear and collaborative processes were teams design and develop online courses within a faculty. It also considers the student experience and looks to optimize their learning journey online. |
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| 5:15 pm – 6:00 pm | Panel Session: Client Experiences on Blackboard Learn Ultra Moderator: Yvette Drager, Blackboard Panelists: Shefali Verma, Chandigarh University, India Emma Page, Southern Institute of Technology, New Zealand Toby Nutting, James Cook University, Australia Lauren Hives, Bond University, Australia [Add to calendar] Join this panel session to hear from clients who have made the move to Learn Ultra and their reasons for doing so. - Institution-wide implementation strategies - Benefits and drawbacks - Issues faced and solutions - What they would do differently if they were to do it again |
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| Track 2: Optimising the Student Experience | |||
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| 1:00 pm – 1:10 pm | Optimizing the Student Experience through Gamification Speaker: Debabrota Das, Pearl Academy, India [Add to calendar] The paper /presentation will discuss about a case of module: Create a new World conducted on Blackboard Collaborate in the year 2020. It was the year when global pandemic COVID-19 hit the world and like many other education industry was also going through disruptions. The module was aimed to involve freshman year students to design to have eight weeks of interdisciplinary education via online modality. The case study will highlight on the planning of the module, gamification tools used on the LMS blackboard and its impact to optimize student experience. The presentation will not only highlight the planning, module architecture, LMS utility but also will discuss student engagement with data and testimonials. |
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| 1:15 pm – 1:45 pm | Multimodal Assignment Feedback: Synchronous & Asynchronous Strategies for Supporting Learners Through Agile Learning Speaker: Joel Louie, Jonathan Pillai, Harriet Perryer and Frank Gaschk, Curtin University, Australia [Add to calendar] Agile learning employs scrum and agile project workflows in the learning process. It focuses on iterative project development and leverages scaffolded assignment tasks. In design and other professional industries, agile and hybrid methodolodogies are widely employed in the development of commercial projects. By leveraging agile learning strategies in our face-to-face and online classes, the Animation & Game Design (AGD) and Digital Experience & Interaction Design (DigEx) Major teaching teams @ Curtin Uni emphasise authentic, industry-reflective learning approaches. In this presentation, Blackboard 2020 Award winners Joel Louie & Jonathan Pillai team up with accomplished design lecturers Harriet Perryer and Frank Gaschk to share our teaching team's adaptive multimodal feedback strategies for agile learning. We provide an overview of the rationale that underpins our pedagogical approach, as well as cover the Blackboard tools and workflows that our teams employ for provide students with formative and summative feedback in a manner that is reflective of the creative industries that the AGD and DigEx Majors are oriented towards. |
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Support and Training for Ultra Experience – CDU CEITE Experience Speaker: Stefanija Klaric and Bill Searle, Charles Darwin University, Australia [Add to calendar] One thing that is a constant in the world of technology enhanced learning is change, be that upgrades to technology, and systems, approaches to teaching, new student experiences or organizational change. In 2019 Charles Darwin University moved to Blackboard Learn Base Navigation and by the beginning of 2020 teaching its first units in Learn Ultra. The College of Engineering IT and Environment were an early adopter of Learn Ultra and together with the team at Education Strategy developed a series of seven workshops to discover, share, connect and build their capability to create units in Learn Ultra. Starting with seven units in Semester 1, 2020 by the end of year it was decided that all units for 2021 were to be Learn Ultra. In 2021 171 units were transitioned to Learn Ultra involving 38 teaching staff from the College and a small team of staff from Education Strategy. This was an opportunity for online teaching renewal, for redesign of units and to collaborate with the team at Education Strategy in new ways. Join CDU colleagues in sharing their journey of discovery to transition the College of Engineering IT and Environment to Blackboard Learn Ultra. |
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| 2:55 pm | Break: Meet the Teaching & Learning Community | ||
| 3:30 pm – 4:00 pm | How to Boost the Student Experience: Redesign the Student Engagement Approach Speaker: Rozana Ismail - Centre of Diploma Studies, UTMSPACE, Malaysia [Add to calendar] Learning in an online class setting is tough in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic. For decades, Malaysian education has relied on face-to-face interaction, and most students are comfortable with it. The difficulties raised by the students in this case study will be discussed in considerable detail. The presentation will begin with a blended learning period, followed by an abrupt implementation of a full online class that revolves around a few concerns, and how the redesign process was carried out to remedy the situation and indirectly improve students' experience. |
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| 4:05 pm – 4:35 pm | Enhancing the Student Learning Experience with H5P Speakers: Daniel Purdy, Andrew Komoder and Peter Steele, Western Sydney University, Australia [Add to calendar] Western Sydney University has been offering blended, flipped and flexible learning for many years across the institution. The university has used several eLearning authoring tools to create interactive and engaging content in these modes, but adoption has been hampered by cost, training and maintenance. COVID-19 accelerated the move to more online content, hybrid, flexible and online asynchronous delivery. As a result, the university explored many products and has recently implemented H5P as an LTI integration within the learning management system, Blackboard. We will discuss the challenges of implementing H5P, the affordances it offers academics including how it can be used to enhance their content and improve the student learning experience and outcomes. We will showcase the resources and support material created including a website and content browser, our professional development program and the exploration of building custom H5P content types. |
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| 4:40 pm – 5:10 pm | Graduating 21st Century Professional-Ready Vet Students: A Pilot Study Speaker: Jaimee Hamilton, James Cook University, Australia [Add to calendar] In 2020, new legislative changes to the Queensland Work, Health and Safety Act (2011) were implemented. As a result, James Cook University is taking the responsibility for teaching the ‘Code of practice for Risk Management’ section of the Act (2011). By JCU taking on this responsibility, we are aiming to equip our students with employable 21st century professional skills to better prepare students and alleviate the pressure on Industry to teach Risk Management. The Veterinary Science cohort were chosen as our pilot program due to the amount of placement embedded across the curriculum. The JCU Work, Health and Safety Unit, educational designers, Professional Placement Unit and degree representatives worked collaboratively to design and implement a module-based design using Blackboard Ultra. The Ultra module was chosen as it offered conditional release, automatic marking, self-paced and can be taken by large cohorts with limited educator input other than monitoring. The result is six non-fee paying compulsory WHS modules that are part of the degree requirements. By making these modules non-fee paying we are ensuring these important skills are part of the curriculum but we are not adding to student cost. The main learning outcome for these modules is to ensure our students will graduate as 21st century WHS ready professionals. The modules are conditionally released where students engage in active learning materials and then complete a quiz which is inbuilt and automatically marked. Each student must attain a score of 80% for the next module to be released in the following year. The modules are scaffolded to build upon each other (Agarwal, 2019) using Universal design principles to develop the students’ knowledge of risk management in Veterinary Science as they progress through their degree. Grade centre evidence must be supplied by our students to our placement team 3 weeks prior to the commencement of the professional placement or they are unable to complete the placement. This session will discuss how Blackboard Ultra has allowed us to successfully roll out our innovative educational design. |
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| 5:15 pm – 6:00 pm | Panel Session: The Rough End of the Pineapple: Student experiences of learning during the pandemic Moderator: Jacqueline Bates, Blackboard Panelists: Kiko, Malayan Colleges Mindanao, Philippines Atiqah, UTMSPACE, Malaysia Hikari, Tamagawa University, Japan Jenny, University of Western Australia [Add to calendar] This panel discussion will draw on the experiences of three students from Universities across APAC. Questions for our panelists will be crowd sourced from the education community using social media prior to the event. Understanding the sweet spots as well as the prickly challenges for students is what will help us to continue to rethink, redesign and improve the educational experience for learners. Join us for some honest, real world insights from a learner perspective. |
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| Track 3: Designing Innovative Digital Strategies | |
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| 12:00 pm – 12:15 pm | Lightning Talk: Going Beyond Typical Learner Cohorts with Training & Development Manager Speaker: Mick Garner, Blackboard [Add to calendar] Short courses, HR training, alternate training revenue, TDM delivers a platform to cater for non-traditional, non-degree courses and training. |
| 1:00 pm – 1:10 pm | Sponsor Session: Impact Use-case Session - Queensland University of Technology (QUT) Speakers: Kerri Laidlaw and Rhonda Leece, Queensland University of Technology [Add to calendar] Find out how QUT has been using Impact to strategise campaigns for student success at their institution. |
| 1:15 pm – 2:45 pm | [Workshop] Changing the Game - Minecraft in Education Speaker: Becky Keene, insight2execution [Add to calendar] Minecraft is the world's best selling game of all time. Ever wonder why? The answer lies in the limitless learning opportunities available to players through creative builds, team problem solving, and highly engaging critical thinking. In this session, learn why games are so impactful and how any learning environment can be transformed through the power of play. - Why games in education? - What is Minecraft? - Examples from secondary education / higher education - How to play: the basics - How to play together: multiplayer hosting - How to get started with students |
| 3:00 pm – 3:15 pm | Lightning Talk: Utilising Badgr in Blackboard Learn Courses Speaker: Ethan Dengate, Blackboard [Add to calendar] Blackboard & Badgr have recently launched a partnership, which can bring innovative badges, certifications, and learning path capabilities to Learn. But how can you test Badgr to be sure it's right for you & your institution? In this session, we'll explore how to use Badgr's free version in a Learn course. |
| 3:15 pm – 3:30 pm | Lightning Talk: Reporting in Education Speaker: Armen Balian, Blackboard [Add to calendar] Find out more about Learn Ultra reports that can assist instructors in evaluating their students' performance and gaps to help them achieve better. |
| 3:30 pm – 4:00 pm | Leveraging your Curriculum Management Database for Continuous Course Improvement Speaker: Natalie Simper, Bond University, Australia Carol Miles, Blackboard [Add to calendar] Institutions undertaking constructive alignment for continuous improvement need ready access to data across a program. Specifically, to cross-reference the way assessment within courses address the program outcomes and further map to the graduate attributes. Without this information it is difficult to review existing assessment plans or make informed decisions about program improvement. This is one of the advantages of aggregating all the university’s curricular data into one digitised system. This session will demonstrate how Bond University used business intelligence to reveal powerful, visual data regarding the relationships between course learning outcomes and assessments to provide rich information underpinning continuous course improvement. |
| 4:10 pm – 5:00 pm | Blackboard Teaching & Learning Roadmap Highlights Speaker: Nicolaas Matthijs, Blackboard Product Management [Add to calendar] Join our product management team for a deep dive into the roadmap for Blackboard’s EdTech platform. This session will cover highlights on what’s coming soon and what we’re actively working on for Blackboard Learn Original, Blackboard Learn Ultra, Blackboard Collaborate, Blackboard Ally, Blackboard Data and more. We will give you an exciting sneak peek into where we’re going next. |
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Thursday, 19 August 2021
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| 11:00 am | Teaching & Learning Feedback Session Speakers: Jim Chalex, Wade Weichel, Mick Garner, Eoin Haluch, Blackboard [Add to calendar] We’re excited to have time for a Teaching & Learning Product feedback session where we’ll share some details about the most common questions we get from clients. We’ll also leave some time for you to ask more detailed questions about product enhancements and roadmap items.we’re excited to have time for a Teaching & Learning Product feedback session. |
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| 11:50 am | Wellness Break | ||
| 12:05 pm | Learning Agility and Innovation Arun Pradhan, Co-Founder of Modelthinkers.com [Add to calendar] Identify key trends in the future of work and the combinations of capabilities required to stay relevant and thrive as a result. Drawing on academic research, diverse domains, and industry practice, Arun will outline a range of 'learning and thinking hacks' that will improve agility and help to future-proof your career. This interactive session promises to challenge, entertain, and leave you with practical techniques to incorporate into your approach. |
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| 12:45 pm | Sponsor Session: Current Trends and the Role of Technology in the Future of Education Speaker: Ivan Gn, EdTech Technical Program Manager, Amazon Web Services [Add to calendar] Join AWS as they share the global trends in the use of digital technology in higher education that they are observing and explain how the organization’s technologies and partners are helping educators usher in a new era. The session will conclude with some suggestions on what colleges and universities might focus on as they consider how best to take advantage of the digital opportunity. |
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| 1:15 pm | Breakout Sessions Track 4: Driving Learner Success Through Data and Analytics Track 5: Assessment Strategies in the Online World Track 6: Engaging Courses and Teaching Styles |
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| 5:00 pm | Blackboard Awards | ||
| 5:30 pm | Virtual Conference Social | ||
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| Track 4: Driving Learner Success Through Data and Analytics | |||
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| 1:15 pm – 1:45 pm | Analytics, Learning Ecosystems and Storms on the Horizon Speaker: Aneesha Bakharia, Greg Winslett, Solmaz Abdi, The University Of Queensland, Australia [Add to calendar] In 2020, the University of Queensland (UQ) released Course Insights, a teacher facing dashboard that integrates data from multiple teaching and learning systems including Blackboard, Blackboard GradeCenter, edX Edge, echo360 and the system information management system. Course Insights works at both the aggregate cohort and individual student level to provide filterable and comparative visualisations with the ability to provide personalised student feedback. This presentation will provide an overview of the learning analytics implementation strategy at UQ, participatory design approach, the challenges with sourcing additional data sources from learning system vendors and building a near real-time data pipeline. The presenters will make a call to action for vendors to improve the events captured in the Caliper clickstream logs to enhance the sophistication and insight that can be gained by learning analytics. Finally, data governance, privacy and the coming storm of consent management will be discussed. |
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| 1:50 pm – 2:00 pm | Learning Foreign Language Using Mobile Applications in Enhancing Communication Fluency Among Young Professionals Speaker: John Christian Espinola, Lyceum of the Philippines University [Add to calendar] The acquisition of learning different foreign languages plays a vital role in people’s lives, as it is not only for entertainment and leisure purposes, but also for important aspects in education and professions. This paper-presentation aims to quantitatively identify the effectiveness of using various mobile applications, in terms of its Gamification, Ease of Use, and Learning Enhancing factors, in learning foreign languages and its correlation to enhance one’s communication fluency, specifically with their Pronunciation and Vocabulary factors. |
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| 2:05 pm – 2:15 pm | Developing Academic Capabilities in Using Data to Inform and Evaluate Teaching Practice Speaker: Glenn Mason and Daniel Purdy, Western Sydney University, Australia [Add to calendar] During 2020 a series of professional development sessions were conducted in the use of learning Analytics for Learn reports. These were useful for staff who lacked familiarity with the reports but it became clear that staff who were more experienced required sessions that focused on the application of the reports in their teaching practice. In this presentation we will outline our strategy for addressing this need by investigating how the reports can be applied in authentic practice. This strategy will consist of collaborating with academic colleagues who will provide us with key teaching and learning questions that they would like answered using the Analytics for Learn reports. The output from this project will be a set of resources that academics can use to help them apply the reports in their teaching practice. These reports for use in authentic teaching and learning contexts will be evaluated once the first iteration of material has been developed. |
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| 2:20 pm – 2:30 pm | Evaluating the Online Learners’ Experience: Engagement, Satisfaction, and Academic Performance Speaker: Roel Rodrigo, Malayan Colleges Laguna, Philippines [Add to calendar] The study presents the relationship between the students’ level of engagement in terms of LMS adoption, academic performance, and satisfaction. Insightful data may serve as an empirical basis for strategies in improving areas such as student success, digital course design, technology adoption, and capitalizing on learning analytics solutions. |
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| 2:40 pm – 3:10 pm | Final Grades Made Easy: Bond University's Journey to an Efficient and Robust Process for Final Grades Ratification by Utilising Data from our SIS, CMS, and LMS and Managing it All with Grade Matter Speaker: Lauren Hives, Bond University, Australia [Add to calendar] Learn more about Bond University's use of the student management system, Akari, and Blackboard Learn Data to feed into Grade Matter for an efficient and robust final grades ratification process. |
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| 3:10 pm | Break: Meet the Teaching & Learning Community | ||
| 3:30 pm – 4:00 pm | Sponsor Session: Measuring Engagement, and Impact within the eLearning Environment Meaghan Storey, Intelliboard [Add to calendar] Researchers have strongly correlated improved learning and student engagement with teacher immediacy - behaviors associated to student perception of a teacher/instructor's care and concern. This is translated in the online learning environment in myriad ways. Join us as we review online teacher immediacy, review reporting related to teacher immediacy, and strategies to implement for improvement. |
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Sponsor Session: Making Data-Driven Decisions With Impact’s Insights Speaker: Adam Klecheski, Impact [Add to calendar] Learn how Impact's LMS and third-party tool insights can help to make data-driven decisions for online learning at your institution. |
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| 4:20 pm – 4:30 pm | Awareness Generation and Adoption Journey of Blackboard Learn at SNU Speaker: Manish Dhawan, Shiv Nadar University, India [Add to calendar] At Shiv Nadar University (SNU), we started using Blackboard Learn LMS in 2012. As an educational technologist, I have done extensive research in understanding how Blackboard Learn is being utilised in the University. In this session I will present my findings, learnings and solutions based on research and analysis of Blackboard Learn adoption at SNU. |
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| 4:40 pm – 4:50 pm | Blackboard Learn and Social Internship under COVID-19: An Analysis Based on Case Study for Positive Youth Development Speaker: Shalini Vohra, Ravindra Singh Rawat, Rahul Nainwal, Roohi Sille, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, India [Add to calendar] Social Internship is an opportunity to the students for understanding real world social issues, which our society is facing, and supported the affected community / cause through field internship. It also enables students to acquire life skills and knowledge, and take responsibility as progressive righteous, compassionate and empathetic citizens of the community, nation and entire world. Before COVID-19, traditional method of teaching implemented with students learning in the classroom and applying their knowledge and skills to the community through direct interface. The Covid -19 pandemic has forced Academic bodies and educators across the globe to relook at teaching, learning and assessment strategies. Traditional teaching is now integrated with open source digital solutions with learning management software to facilitate a seamless bridge between the conventional learning patterns and its cross integration with the virtual classroom. Blackboard learning has proved to be a virtuous tool for providing an online environment to traditionally delivered courses, which could be further developed, delivered and evaluated online. The Present study is a framework of understanding based on students’ internship experience using Blackboard collaborate as a platform for positive youth development and further experienced by both providers (Students) and recipients (Society) - evaluated by tutors using Blackboard as a medium . Findings also supported the benefits of online Social Internship using Blackboard Collaborate as a platform. |
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| Track 5: Assessment Strategies in the Online World | |||
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| 10:00 am – 11:00 am | Australian Blackboard User Group Meeting | ||
| 1:15 pm – 2:00 pm | Panel Session: Designing Effective Self- and Peer-Assessment Tasks for Varying Modes of Course Delivery Moderator:Carol Miles, Blackboard Panelists: Prof. Karen Benson, University of Queensland, Australia Prof. Michael Sankey, Charles Darwin University, Australia Natalie Simper, Bond University, Australia Dr. Hwei Ming Wong, National Institute of Education, Singapore [Add to calendar] As universities move further away from traditional assessments and begin to integrate more authentic assessment reflecting future workplace needs, the use of critical self-assessment and peer assessment tasks are being increasingly applied in both online and face-to-face environments. This panel discussion will focus on the validity and reliability of these assessment methods, as well as the forms of technology that will enable their successful delivery to students learning in varying modes. |
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| 2:05 pm – 2:35 pm | Current Trends in Online Delivery and Assessment in Australia and New Zealand Speaker: Michael Sankey, Charles Darwin University, Australia [Add to calendar] Based on data form a range of ACODE Surveys over the last 12 months, and other industry data, there have been some distinct trends emerge that suggest that institutions are taking a fresh look at how they conduct teaching and assessment, longer term. Much of this has been predicated on what was necessary to deal with lock-down situations due to COVID-19, but more recently this has allowed institutions to consider the longer-term advantages in accommodating different forms of assessment, those that have traditionally fallen out of what was considered ‘normal’, most notably the ‘exam’. This shift in thinking has also extended to what institutions considering different forms of delivery of their core content, with there being a distinct shift away from what has been the mainstay for centuries, the ‘Lecture’. This shift has allowed for more authentic forms of delivery, ones based in more collaborative and active approaches. This presentation with provide a summary of some of the key data and share some examples of how some institutions are approaching the next few years, as uncertainty around the short-term future of in-person learning and teaching persists. |
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| 2:40 pm – 3:10 pm | Journeying from Traditional to Online Assessments: My Challenges and Triumphs Speaker: Caroline Yap, Sunway University, Malaysia [Add to calendar] In my presentation, I will be sharing my journey with fellow academics on how I transitioned from traditional assessments to online assessments. I will share my challenges in setting online-based assessments question and how I utilize Blackboard Test to execute online assessments for a large cohort of approximately 400 students each semester. As I was getting more comfortable with online assessments, I attempted to randomize questions by using question set and random block functions in my online term tests. Even though this measure can minimize the chances of collaboration amongst students, this too presents its own challenges. I hope my sharing will benefit academics who shared the same nature of my module which is calculation-based as we prepare to transition to online assessments in the future. Moving forward, there needs to be a change in the way students are going to be assessed in an online learning environment. Changing the assessments is not just converting the same questions to online but the way the questions are structured had to change as well. |
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| 3:10 pm | Break: Meet the Teaching & Learning Community | ||
| 3:30 pm – 4:15 pm | Panel Session: The Place of Proctoring Tools in Hybrid Teaching Moderator: Nick Benwell, Blackboard Panelists: Bill Searle, Charles Darwin University, Australia Ravindra Yatagiri, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, India Arie Sowers, Respondus, U.S.A [Add to calendar] Proctoring tools provide institutions with the ability to securely run online assessments, even when learners are working remotely. However, increasingly instructors are considering the role and methods of assessment in their courses to include assessments that are more suited to hybrid course delivery models. What is the place of proctoring tools in a time of hybrid teaching practice? The panel will discuss use cases and scenarios related to this topic. |
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| 4:20 pm – 4:30 pm | Pivoting to Open-Book Assessment for Tourism Modules: Considerations for Assessment Design and Development of Higher Order Thinking Speaker: Joshua Loh, Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Singapore [Add to calendar] Learn more about Open Book Assessment using Blackboard's Test Tool, including question pool and randomize functions. |
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| 4:40 pm – 4:50 pm | Embracing Alternative Assessment to Incorporate Students' Learning Experiences in Online Education Speaker: Norazlina Mohd Yasin, UTMSPACE, Malaysia [Add to calendar] In an ideal world, universities would include blended learning throughout all academic programmes. While blended learning courses emphasised face-to-face engagement, they also made use of a powerful Blackboard learning management system (LMS) to facilitate and enhance after-class, online interactions for instructor–student and student–student communication. However, all universities in Malaysia were closed in March 2020 owing to the outbreak of Covid-19. Students are still in the beginning stages of the semester and must make the transition to online study. This has resulted in a drastic shift in the delivery of education to an online mode. Thus, the goal of this research is to examine the role of alternative assessment by examining students' perceptions of their Blended Learning experiences in the UTM Foundation Program. Apart from establishing a positive learning environment, students' learning outcomes improved significantly as a consequence of blended learning data analytics recommendations for reflection on instructional delivery methodologies employed during the pandemic to address curriculum design inadequacies. The study presents recommendations for improving both the UTM Foundation and UTM's present online learning design. |
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| Track 6: Engaging Courses and Teaching Styles | ||
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| 10:30 am – 10:45 am | Lightning Talk: Gamification Strategies, Tools, & Content Speaker: Armen Balian, Blackboard [Add to calendar] Want to dial up your course engagement, increase the fun and also learner success? Let's take a look at how to use gamification in Blackboard Learn to achieve this in a manageable way. |
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| 11:50 am – 12:05 pm | Content Lite Courses: Quality Teaching with Lesser Bandwidth Speaker: Ethan Dengate, Blackboard [Add to calendar] Designing a course for students that might have slow interenet speeds can help increase accessibility, and decrease your institutions storage footpint. In this session, we'll look at some tips on how to keep your courses simple & content lite. |
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| 2:05 pm – 2:20 pm | Technology Power ups: Be Seen Speakers: Jacqueline Bates and Richard Stals, Blackboard [Add to calendar] Power up your online visual presence and presentations. Lighting matters. To have an effective online class or webinar, you have to be engaging. It is pretty difficult to do that if no one can see you. Webcam video looks best with good lighting. Learn about some best practices and tools to make your video look great. Join us to get some tips on how to look your best online. |
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| 2:20 pm – 2:35 pm | Technology Power ups: Be Heard Speakers: Jacqueline Bates and Richard Stals, Blackboard [Add to calendar] Power up your online audio quality and have your message heard more clearly. Audio matters. Join us to see how great audio can both enhance your credibility and the effectiveness of your message. In a 2018 study, conducted at the University of Southern California (USC) and Australian National University (ANU), participants were shown one video with good sound, and another with poor sound quality. Participant responses indicated that, “As soon as we reduced audio quality, the scientists and their research lost all credibility,” The general consensus of participants was that when the audio quality was poor, “the talk was worse, the speaker less intelligent, and the research less important”. Reference. |
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| 2:35 pm – 2:50 pm | Technology Power ups: Be Creative Speakers: Jacqueline Bates and Richard Stals, Blackboard [Add to calendar] Power up your online creativity with some tips and tools to deliver engaging online experiences. Engagement matters. Learn how to up the ante with your online presentations and classes. Whether learning is offered in-person, synchronously online, or asynchronously online students have to relate to your content, be able to learn from it and it needs to be relevant. We will show you how to squeeze even more creativity out of your existing tools and technologies. You may also find yourself enticed by some additional cost-effective gadgets that will value add to your delivery. |
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| 3:10 pm – 3:25 pm | Sponsor Session: No-Code Course Design - Create Courses in Minutes! Speakers: Edina Cejvan and Sebastian Caus, Crystal Delta [Add to calendar] Learn how you can enhance the learning experience leveraging Blackboard Learn and the simplified course design tool - Loree. - Create responsive and engaging course pages with text, images, videos and interactives within your LMS - Design, build, save and share templates + custom blocks across your organization in minutes - Make sure your learners have both accessible and well-designed content to meet their learning needs - Kick-start your H5P journey with Loree’s own no-fuss integration, allowing for easy course additions. |
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