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Sasan Salari VP, New Technology Services Head, Vista Developers Network salari@webct.com

Sasan Salari VP, New Technology Services Head, Vista Developers Network salari@webct.com. What is the WebCT PowerLinks Network? Who are the PowerLink Partners? How will WebCT designers, instructors, administrators benefit from these solutions? Where can more information be found?. Topics.

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Sasan Salari VP, New Technology Services Head, Vista Developers Network salari@webct.com

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  1. Sasan Salari VP, New Technology Services Head, Vista Developers Network salari@webct.com

  2. What is the WebCT PowerLinks Network? Who are the PowerLink Partners? How will WebCT designers, instructors, administrators benefit from these solutions? Where can more information be found? Topics

  3. The PowerLinks Network? • Selectbest-of-breed partner products and services • Solutions that Complement WebCT's state-of-the-art e-learning systems. • Interoperability that is based on well established standards, creating reusable solutions. • A Network of committed vendors of campus technologies tohigh-quality course content and leading-edge learning applications.

  4. Why WebCT PowerLinks? • Flexibility to pick and choose the technologies that extend the learning platform • 3rd party tools woven in to the WebCT e-learning environment • Ability for bi-directional content & data transferring with external systems • Provide limitless capability to customize thee-learning experience

  5. PowerLinks Pay Off • Improved end-user satisfaction and flexibility • Seamless transition between systems • Reduced time maintaining redundant systems: • Enrollment data • Login/passwords • Course Resources • Communication tools • Lower TCO • Lower cost of integration • Lower cost of maintenance/upgrades

  6. Technology Partners

  7. Technology Partners and Solutions

  8. PowerLinks for Technology • Strategic relationships with worldwide hardware vendors • Integrated offering with key enabling technologies • Performance testing and configuration recommendations • Ensuring that WebCT is secure, reliable and always available

  9. Gartner Survey According to Gartner Research: • 73% of institutions have selected a standard CMS1 • SIS integration at over 80% of institutions Gartner Research predicts that by 2005: • Academic technology services will supplant ERP as the next major new investment in higher education. 2 • More than 70% of students will be enrolled in courses that use e-learning2 1Gartner Research Note DF-18-8100, “Higher Education Institutions Should Select a Standard CMS,” 30 April 2003. 1Gartner Research Note COM-19-9149, “Integration Indicates Higher-Education E-Learning Commitment,” 1 May 2003. 2 Gartner Research Note COM 18-9597, “Higher Education IT Gets Academic,” 10 December 2002.

  10. Why PowerLinks for Admins? 0 • Able to support real-time integration, streamlining the registration process for course enrollment • Integration can provide seamless services across academic and administrative services including portal, ePortfolio, and registration. • Experienced in supporting real-time interoperability with student information systems • Providing certified solutions with commercial SIS vendors and custom integration with bespoke systems.

  11. SampleWebCT/SIS/Portal Integration ADMINISTRATIVE ACADEMIC Single Sign-on via Portal/Web Self Service Applications NEEDS NEEDS • To WebCT from SIS • Basic Course Data • Class List/Roster • Enrollment Changes Student System Academic Courses Content Communities & Resources Integration Adaptors XML XML • From WebCT To SIS • Grades (where supported)

  12. Update - SIS Partner Adaptors 0

  13. Content Partners

  14. Content Alliances Key Driver 0 “Academic e-Learning Must Confront Content Development Costs: Higher education must find better, less costly ways to fill it’s e-learning conduits.” Gartner, April 2003

  15. Today’s content solutions • 2700 e-packs in 50 disciplines • All e-Packs available for Vista • Growing availability of specialized content • Available through the Content Showcase, a single channel built to support and empower WebCT’s customers • Dedicated WebCT Support team, providing added resources to local administration and support

  16. WebCT PowerLinks Network Content Partners

  17. Online Teaching: Ready? Set! Go… "WebCT e-Pack content, such as online quiz banks or video clips, engages students in the learning experience and adds a level of interactivity that is critical to their success in the course. I am able to incorporate innovative online content with almost no effort required on my part - it's all contained in the e-Pack and ready to use with WebCT.” Prof. Janice Stoudemire Business Department Midlands Technical College “WebCT e-Packs have allowed all the schools in our system to serve students whom we never would have seen in the face-to-face classroom. By enabling instructors to develop courses more quickly, use publisher resources more efficiently, and minimize course management demands, e-Packs have had a major impact on enrollment.” Lance Crocker Southern Maine Technical College

  18. What customers are saying: • 55% of campus customers use e-packs to jump start faculty adoption of WebCT • Student usage of e-packs up 24% • e-Packs provide a launching point for new faculty • Cuts time for an instructor to get online by 50 – 80% • Provides high quality resources instructors cannot create themselves (games, simulations, ppt., self study tools) • Leverages campus investment in WebCT

  19. Resources for faculty • Online catalog, fully searchable by discipline, author, media type • Dedicated Support in Vancouver for faculty using e-packs, a welcome supplement to your on-campus resources • “Key Features” supports instructors in selecting the right e-pack, based on easy visibility to 8 highly requested features

  20. Key Features of e-Packs Question database ~ Includes a Questions Database with 1-1000 questions, 1001-2500 questions, or 2500+ questions. Interactive media ~ Includes interactive exercises, simulations, or explanations that may include audio. Flashcards / Glossary ~ Includes terminology flashcards or a glossary. Video animations Includes animated elements that are not interactive and may include audio. Critical thinking activities Includes activities that challenge students to apply knowledge or to expand their understanding on their own, such as case studies, essays, and simulations. Instructor resources Includes resources, such as a teaching guide or a set of slides, that are intended for or only available to instructors. Varied question types ~ Includes a Questions Database with three or more question types. eBook ~ Includes an electronic version of the complete textbook.

  21. Compelling digital content: our message to our Partners • solves a real academic challenge in a compelling way • uses media and technology in a way that faculty and schools can’t easily create for themselves • gives faculty the ability to “make it their own”—personalization or customization • comes with support for faculty as they learn to customize, adopt their teaching to the new content and while they are managing courses that contain the content • ease of use and ease of discoverability • provides a better value for students

  22. Content Alliances: 2004 focus 0 • Build PowerLinks for key discipline specific applications • Extend WebCT’s content story by adding to our e-pack resources: library content, campus developed content, and SCORM content • Enhance and extend the role of Digital Content Leaders on WebCT campuses as advocates • Build out “content solutions” in key verticals: business, medicine, law

  23. e-Packs are coming of age • PowerLinks delivered for fall with most popular learning applications: • Partners working with partners • MyMathLab (PearsonEducation) • Personal Trainer (Thomson SouthWestern) • SimNet (McGraw Hill Higher ) • ilrn (Thomson Higher Education) • Major content companies partnering with WebCT and campus leaders to define and test new models for packaging and distributing content

  24. Beyond e-packs:opportunities with new partners • Revenue generation for campus customers • University College of the Cariboo: pin protecting and selling an instructor created course in their bookstore this fall • Faculty generated learning objects • MERLOT is now a WebCT partner!

  25. Gartner Predicts • By 2005, supplemental use of e-learning among faculty will rise from 28% to more than 50%. • By 2005, more than 70% of students will be enrolled in courses that use e-learning. • By 2005, the amount of digital material delivered per student will quadruple. • Institutions must plan for geometric, rather than arithmetic, growth in e-learning system capacity. "Higher Education E-Learning Grows Up”, 5-03, Gartner Research

  26. Learning Application Partners

  27. Why WebCT PowerLink Application Partners? • Complimentary technologies that extend the WebCT learning platform • Best of Breed applications • Technology fit – browser support, platform support, and user • A focus on worldwide Higher Education • Committed to WebCT customer base

  28. Access to Tools Across Systems • Recognizing the user as they move from one server to another. • Using WebCT as the launch location for creating, managing and delivering online resources for teaching and learning. • Leveraging the applications for what they were created to do.

  29. Explore PowerLinks Partners • Authoring Tools • Tools for Instruction • Content Management and Search Tools

  30. Authoring Tools • Allow offline creation of Content Modules, Learning Modules and other web content • Provide an environment for collaboration, workflow and version control • Create standards based content that can be used in WebCT or other delivery systems including mobile devices

  31. Authoring Solutions FromPowerLink Partners

  32. Dreamweaver & WebCT:HTML content Web Sites or Pages (.html)

  33. Dreamweaver & WebCT:Content and Learning Modules Web Sites or Pages (.html) WebCT CE Content Modules (IMS CP, .zip) WebCT Vista Learning Modules (IMS CP, .zip)

  34. Build content in Dreamweaver

  35. Build Content Module, saves it as a single .zip file (IMS CP)

  36. Import in WebCT Course(from institutional repository, library, or even your desktop)

  37. Content Module inside WebCT Course

  38. Content Module launched inside WebCT course

  39. Free Dreamweaver Extension

  40. Tools for Instruction

  41. Content Applications

  42. Example Library Application

  43. Simple interface that empowers faculty to search and collect resources Meta-data is stored in Sentient, Content remains in the repository Faculty Create Reading Lists

  44. Use the WebCT File Manager to store lecture notes, presentations or papers Reading Lists can include faculty, student or publisher materials Faculty and librarians can both contribute to the Reading Lists Faculty Can Upload Resources

  45. Students may be given access to one or many Reading Lists for their course/module. Reading Lists For Disciplines, Courses or Topics

  46. WebCT & Sentient Provide Context for Resource Usage • Designers provide context on the educational purpose

  47. Seamless access to the library services and resources Linking to check availability in their library OPAC or other local libraries Student is Recognized and Provided Access Options

  48. Seamless Integration to the Library Catalogue

  49. The Reading List Can Link to a Learning Object in MERLOT

  50. Example Portfolio

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