Documentation:Learning 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 _v4 The full project plan is available via SharePoint. If you are unable to access the link, please contact Tanya Elias at telias@tru.ca to be granted access. Phase I Plan Information Gathering COMPLETE Share Findings IN PROGRESS Wiki updates- ongoing Published version of Phase I progress – in progress Campus Faculty Meeting Updates – in progress Develop Moodle Spec for Phase I – in progress Review IT Moodle Spec requirements with IT - complete Campus Moodle Support & Alignment for Phase I ONGOING Learning Technology Group Upgrade Moodle BCU theme updates Student ID photos in grade book Workshops Help Email Development of Prototype of OL courses for Phase 1 IN PROGRESS 3 paced courses for phase 1- complete Three paced courses have been selected to run in Moodle for the January 2016 start date. The courses are: BIOL 3701 - Human Anatomy for Health Care Professionals - Start Date January 4, 2016 BBUS 4681/MNGT 4751 - Leading Projects to Success - Start Date January 11, 2016 HLTH 4011 - Issues in Health Care - Start Date: January 11, 2016 Inform Associate Deans-complete Develop user friendly content using approved colours in theme - complete Request and test plugins - complete Develop student interface - in progress Develop OLFM interface - in progress Testing of Phase I Prototype IN PROGRESS Testing in development- complete Testing in Production - in progress Process Development & Documentation IN PROGRESS Process for loading content for Phase I - in progress Process for loading OL students for Phase I - in progress Scalable content management process and workflow for Phase II - in progress Support documentation for students (OL and Campus) for Phase I - in progress OLFM Training for Phase I COMING SOON Prepare Courses for Registration IN PROGRESS Initial Review- Check-in of Phase I Scheduled for Feb 2016 Midway review/Check-in of Phase I Scheduled for March 2016 Final Review of Phase I Scheduled for April/May 2016 Final Analysis of Phase I Scheduled for June 2016 Archive