Donderdag 16 juni 2016 Parallelsessieronde 3 Titel: Vernieuwing van de digitale leeromgeving (DLO) Spreker: Frank Snels Zaal: Boston 11

1. Frank Snels
University Information Manager
University Of Twente
June 2016
Frank.Snels@utwente.nl
DIGITAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT
TOWARDS A FUTURE PROOF DIGITAL LEARNING ENVIROMENT

2.  Introduction
 Digital Learning Environment (DLE)
 Phase 1: current usage (2014)
 Phase 2: vision and ambition (2015)
 Education of the future
 Functional requirements
 Support of the DLE
 Phase 3: Tender and implementation (2016 - )
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AGENDA

3. University of Twente
20 juni 2013Onderwijsarchitectuur in de praktijk 3
 6 faculties, 4 institutes
 10.000 students, 3300 employees
 1600 publications, 200 PHD’s,
 20 bachelor- , 33 master schools
 800 startups
 Technical Research University
 Green campus University
 High tech, human touch
 most entrepreneurial university (Meest
ondernemende Universiteit)

4.  Shortcut european tender proces surf contract 5 years ago
 Blackboard Surf contract ends for several universities
 Goal twente university: better understanding current situation
 Activities:
 67 Interviews (20 students, 35 scientific, 12 support staff)
 UT-workshop (SURF SIG DLWO): 40 participants
 Studentenworkshops: 20 participants
 Blackboard database insights (1369 courses 2013/2014)
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PHASE 1: CURRENT USAGE OF THE
DIGITAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT (DLE)
DLE an integrated collection of
digital services and applications that
supports students and teachers in
their work
LMS: Learning
Management Systems
like Blackboard, Canvas
of Moodle

5.  SURF survey 2013 (40 participants):
 18 NL-HE institutes use Blackboard,
 17 use sharepoint
 Nationale Studenten Enquete (2014) : score 3,8 (scale 1-5)
 UT-evaluation (2013/2014): score 3.5 (scale 1-5)
 Courses not using Blackboard: max 8%
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GENERAL FINDINGS

6. Adaptive release 54%, mashups:2%
grouptools 25%, student signup 14%,
 Discussionboard: 4%, blog: 0%, journal: 0%, wiki: -%
 Grade center: not to adopt (down/upload: 4%)
, ephorus* assignments: 22%, group assignments:
15%
 Tests: 3%, surveys: 2% (faculty of ITC 61%)
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FINDINGS: BLACKBOARD DATABASE ANALYSIS
* via Blackboard

7.  Uniform design and stability are the key aspects for students
 1 Learning management system (LMS)
 Teachers: Blackboard is user unfriendly and has a steep learning curve
 Our teachers are researchers with an education task
 Collaboration outside the learning management system
 Whatsapp, Dropbox en Google apps are most used for collaboration
 Internal support to teachers needs attention
 Differences within faculties
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FINDINGS

8.  Introduction
 Digital Learning Environment (DLE)
 Phase 1: current usage (2014)
 Phase 2: vision and ambition (2015)
 Education of the future
 Functional requirements
 Support of the DLE
 Phase 3: Tender and implementation (2016 - )
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AGENDA

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PHASE 2: TOWARDS A FUTURE PROOF DLE
Learning
goals
Learning
approaches
Digital
learning
environment
Blended learning, with at least four different uses
 - Classroom technology
 - ‘Flipped’ didactics
 - Time and place independent teaching
 - Open Educational Resources

10.  Diversity participant;
 Student driven learning / demand pull
 Course goals: from knowledge to skills (Research skills, Design
skills, Entrepeneurship)
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EDUCATION CONTEXT
Twente Academy
Bachelors
Masters
PDEntr/
DBA
PDEng
PhD
UC
Atlas
TEM
Professional
developmentprograms
BREADTH
DEPTH

11. Functional
requirements
Non-functional
requirements
Overview, insights and
Composition of:
participants, teachers, groups,
coursematerial, facilities, learning goals,
competenties and properties
from learningactivity, course or module
Dataintegration en interoperability
Personalisation
Visual integration and identitity
management
FUTURE PROOF DLE: CORE FUNCTIONS

12. SOURCE: SURF SIG DLWO, “een flexibele
en persoonlijke leeromgeving” sept 2015
https://www.surf.nl/binaries/content/assets/surf/en/knowledgebase/2016/memorandum-learning-environment_uk_web.pdf
INTEGRATION
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DIGITAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT SUPPORT (1)
Didactic
Technology
Education specialist
System engineer
Business information management
Blackboard key-user
Instructional designer

14. Core
“LMS als
organizer,
integrationplatfor
m”
Reccomended
“b.v. peer feedback,
digital assesment,
voting,
video(Camtasia) ”
Optional
“Virtual classroom, forum,
socrative, online courses”
Pilot
“USB assesments, MOOC”
Expected usage form all teachers
and staff. central finance and
support.
Reccomended, central finance
and support. Fully integration with
core
Is optional, Facyulty or school
finance and support. Integration
with core is optional.
New features. Project based
Finance and support
Public features without support or
finance. Openbare integratie
Public
“Whatsapp, dropbox, hangouts,
facebook,”
DIGITAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT SUPPORT (2)
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PHASE 3: TENDER AND IMPLEMENTATION (1)
 Tender 2016, implementation 2017 –
 Proces: best value and traditional
 support improvement is seperate project
 Faculty involvement
 Roadshows
 Usability tests
 Core functionality Tender <-> LMS Tender ?
 Frontrunners shows traditional LMS players

16. LMS tender (2016)
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PHASE 3: TENDER AND IMPLEMENTATION (2)

17. Questions
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