Documentation:Learning Environment

Learning Environment Project Page Dedicated to enhancing TRU's online learning and teaching environment.

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Improving the learning and teaching experience includes consistency in the learning environment for our students and staff. Moodle has been determined to be the potential preferred institutional fit at this point as it is open source and already used on campus. We are currently in the information gathering stage and are starting from a values perspective and drilling down to required functionality to meet those values. Please add your comments, thoughts, opinions and suggestions to these pages to help us capture all possible requirements. If you want to say something but not in a public forum, please contact Tanya, Brian or Jacquey to have the conversation. Goals & Objectives (Draft) To develop a learning environment students and faculty love that is alignment with the TRU Academic Plan and: Is easy to use appropriate support when required Supports learning that is: Engaging and interactive Supported (technical end user support? or...) Open Applied Flexible Research and data-driven Is cost effective, sustainable and supports continuous improvement while encouraging back end efficiencies Is implemented using a process that supports the needs of staff and faculty through appropriate process development, training and ongoing support Is compatible with existing student management systems and automated enrolment on registration can be achieved to support continuous entry Information Gathering High Level Discussion Questions What Do We Know (Or Think We Know)? What Do We Need to Find Out? What Do We Hope For? What Do We Fear? Drilling Down What Do Open Learning Faculty Want? What do Students Want? What Does the Curriculum Development Team Want? What Does Campus Faculty Want? Research Links What are other universities and colleges finding? Ryerson University conducted a survey of the Ryerson community and asked "What Do You Need from Ryerson's Online Learning and Teaching Systems?" http://lms.blog.ryerson.ca/2013/11/18/survey_results/ Washington State University has posted the top ten findings from their Learning Management Survey Results. http://lmsevaluation.wsu.edu/Documents/WSU_LMS_Survey_Summary.pdf The University of Calgary has provided a well defined document that provides their process of moving to Desire 2 Learn. The document includes LMS Evaluation Survey Comments in Appendix A: http://web.archive.org/web/20140801131817/http://elearn.ucalgary.ca/files/elearn/LMS-RFP-Engagement-Report.pdf (please note, this in an archived webpage displayed using the wayback machine from April 23, 2014) Learning Analytics: What do students want from a learning analytics app? http://sclater.com/blog/what-do-students-want-from-a-learning-analytics-app/ Educause: Selecting a Learning Management System: Advice from an Academic Perspective http://www.educause.edu/ero/article/selecting-learning-management-system-advice-academic-perspective Project Plan . Learning Environment Project Plan for Directors _v5 The full project plan is available via SharePoint. If you are unable to access the link, please contact olplanning@tru.ca to be granted access. Phase I Plan Information Gathering COMPLETE Share Findings COMPLETE Wiki updates- ongoing 'Campus/OL Moodle Support & Alignment ONGOING Learning Technology Group Moodle Upgrade Theme updates Help Email Development of Prototype of OL courses for Phase 1 COMPLETE 3 paced courses for Phase 1 January 2016: BIOL 3701, BBUS 4681/MNGT 4751 and HLTH 4011 May 2016: BIOL 3701, HLTH 4011, MNGT 4711 Testing of Phase I Prototype COMPLETE Prepare/Run Courses for Registration IN PROGRESS January 2016 (COMPLETE): BIOL 3701, BBUS 4681/MNGT 4751 and HLTH 4011 May 2016 (IN PROGRESS): BIOL 3701 - Human Anatomy for Health Care Professionals - Start Date: May 2, 2016 HLTH 4011 - Issues in Health Care - Start Date: May 9, 2016 MNGT 4711 - Decision Analysis - Start Date: May 9, 2016 Final Review of Phase I Scheduled for April/May 2016 Final Analysis of Phase I Scheduled for June 2016 Phase II Preparation IN PROGRESS Student interface - in progress OLFM interface - in progress Moodle/Banner Auto Enrolment - in progress Automated script running in production complete Enrolment Management Web Tool complete LDAP account creations in progress Scalable content management process and workflow for Phase II - in progress Support documentation for students (OL and Campus) - in progess Archive