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Reconsidering Concepts for Support and Collaboration
Eky Fioole & Rudi Clause Avans University
of applied Sciences
Content
• Context
• Challenges
• 3 case studies
• Basics & Conditions
• Pitfalls
• Our wish list
ContextAvans University has:• 18.500 students• 1.800 staff• 18 Schools• 60 bachelor degree programs (full time, part-time and co-op)
• 3 locations (Breda, Tilburg and ‘s Hertogenbosch)
Context• Bb Learning & Community System Blackboard Academic Suite
– Learn to Use Use to Learn– Students acquire the role of Instructor in their own courses– Implementation of ePortfolio’s– Storage of course materials in the Bb Content System
-> Increased complexity
• Educational view– Problem based learning Competence based learning– Digital archive Interactive use– Assignments based on real life cases– Blending of institutional learning, work experiences and virtual
learning • ‘Stand alone' system Links to a growing number of other
systems– LDAP, institutional portal, …– Other user groups (companies, other institutions)
• Changing demands and needs from users– Students need to work together– Students need easy access to organisation information– Staff need to co-operate in multidisciplinary teams.
Challenges
• Growing complexity of our context
• Shortage of resources• Need to make choices• Diversity in level of knowledge, experience and motivation.
3 Case studies
• Training of Bb-coaches• Working with staff and students• Collaboration with other universities
Case study 1
• Training Bb-coaches- How to use Bb How to use Bb
within our in an educational concept– New roles for Bb-coaches– Increasing complexity– Consequence: Training Bb-coaches based on the principles of competence based learning. Bb-coaches make their own ePortfolio.
Case study 2Working with staff and students
• Road shows– Use of good practices – Active role for staff in training their colleagues, directed towards enlarging the existing body of knowledge
• Community of Practice ePortfolio– Sharing of information, knowledge and experiences
– Active participation– Open access to users from other universities.
Case study 2
Working with staff and students• Active participation of students in training staff (ePortfolio’s, manuals)
• Students are involved in developing, building and evaluating Bb Building Blocks.
Case study 3Collaboration with other universities• B4x initiative
– Exchange and collaborate on constructing Building Blocks
• Informal sessions– Focus on questions and problems, not only on
success-stories.– One-on-one approach
Basics & Conditions• Trust your …students, staff members, schools and other universities, …
• Teach what you preach– Bottom up approach
• Share and collaborate– Open mind - Open source– Find news ways to communicate interactively
Basics & Conditions 2
• Be creative• Use different roles:
– Not only the expert, but also facilitator and mediator.
• Connect
Pitfalls• Resistance
Faculty, Staff, students, eLearning coaches
• Knowledge sharing– Another way of training staff and faculty
– Another way to receive (make) knowledge• Vulnerability
– not everybody wants to share and to collaborate
– Showing failures can be more important than sharing success-stories.
Our wish list
• Staying in touch with the changing educational view.
• Develop ideas on support materials
• Long term sharing and collaborating
• Further use of collaboration tools in and outside Blackboard
