Notepad:Learning Tech
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
