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| + | '''Thanks to TRU IT for supporting the [http://bcopened.org/ BC Open Ed Tech Collaborative]. Current active institutional partners are BCCampus, TRU, UNBC, JIBC, uVIC, and Royal Roads. We have individual participants from every public post-sec and beyond.''' | ||
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| + | :'''a collaborative WordPress installation, that is centrally provisioned, but with instances managed by individual institutions.''' | ||
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| + | :'''a community of practice to [http://chat.opened.ca/bcopened/channels/town-square communicate], share [https://oet.sandcats.io/ code and applications] ([http://bavatuesdays.com/ghost-from-the-machine/ ready to run]), [https://community.reclaimhosting.com/ best practices and new ideas]''' | ||
| + | '''We are also utilizing [https://h5p.org/content-types-and-applications H5p framework and tools], looking for ways to extend the use.''' | ||
| + | '''[https://edtech.bccampus.ca/edtech-projects/kaltura-shared-service/ Online video] for our community? | ||
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| + | '''We are critically short-staffed presently, and even with reinforcements expect that time will always be a challenge. Constantly looking for ways to enhance our efficiency. The coming months will be crucial and difficult.''' | ||
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| + | '''What does our community want and need? ACTAC focus groups and survey being developed for fall and winter of this year.''' | ||
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| + | '''How do we communicate with our community?''' | ||
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| + | '''Can we provide [http://udg.theagoraonline.net/ training] in more inventive, engaging, and flexible ways?''' | ||
Revision as of 11:49, 11 August 2016
The current team
Production: responsible for building and maintaining ~300 Open Learning courses. Managed by Carolyn Teare.
Media: build custom multimedia elements for TRU online courses. [Example here and here.] Provide support for campus users for video and media production.
Learning Technology - One developer (Troy Welch) working on UX, help documentation, special projects.
Challenges: Support for Moodle and other learning technology (staffing, resources, model). Managing migration to Moodle on top of existing (growing) production workloads.
What we've done
Initiated Documentation:Learning_Environment project, with goals of moving TRU to a single, enhanced learning management system, and to identify and address other needs.
Re-organized support model, initiated migration of OL courses to Moodle without any additional resources.
The KUMU wiki. Plan to initiate a single-source documentation for support materials, other relevant uses. Example... this wiki page is rendered here. This page lives here.
Developed for open online courses (rMOOC, SHIFT), provided support for public-facing web resources such as ePortfolios (Alan Levine, Brianna McIlquham, or online web projects (https://juanazeme.wordpress.com/, https://abetopia.wordpress.com/).
Recognized challenges with introducing users to WordPress, developed and piloted SPLOTS. http://splot.ca/
- http://l21c.trubox.ca/
- http://imagery.trubox.ca/
- http://biol1210.trubox.ca/
- http://podcast123.trubox.ca/
What's cooking
Thanks to TRU IT for supporting the BC Open Ed Tech Collaborative. Current active institutional partners are BCCampus, TRU, UNBC, JIBC, uVIC, and Royal Roads. We have individual participants from every public post-sec and beyond.
Goals of the BCOETC
- a collaborative WordPress installation, that is centrally provisioned, but with instances managed by individual institutions.
- a community of practice to communicate, share code and applications (ready to run), best practices and new ideas
We are also utilizing H5p framework and tools, looking for ways to extend the use.
Online video for our community?
What I fear
We are critically short-staffed presently, and even with reinforcements expect that time will always be a challenge. Constantly looking for ways to enhance our efficiency. The coming months will be crucial and difficult.
What does our community want and need? ACTAC focus groups and survey being developed for fall and winter of this year.
How do we communicate with our community?
Can we provide training in more inventive, engaging, and flexible ways?