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Enhancing Online Learning with Blackboard Collaborate: Insights and Features

Join us for a deep dive into Blackboard Collaborate, an essential tool for online communication and collaboration in education. This session, held on May 16, 2013, offers an overview of Blackboard Collaborate's capabilities, including its new features in version 12.5. We will explore perspectives from local users and discuss how this platform supports distance education, enhances student-teacher interaction, and integrates seamlessly with existing systems like CLEW. Discover innovative ways to engage students, record lectures, and facilitate collaboration in real-time.

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Enhancing Online Learning with Blackboard Collaborate: Insights and Features

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  1. Blackboard Collaborate: The view from the trenches Nick Baker Laurie Freeman-Gibb Nobuko Fujita Kathy Pfaff Jim Stevens Lorie Stolarchuk Campus Technology Day 16 May, 2013

  2. Session Overview • What is Blackboard Collaborate? • What can it do? • New features in v12.5 • View from the inside – perspectives of local users • What do you want to know?

  3. What is it? An online communication & collaboration suite that can be used as a: • Synchronous (real-time) collaboration tool • Virtual classroom/office • Web conferencing system

  4. What is it? • Does not replace CLEW • Integrates with CLEW to extend capability • Supports Distance Education (DE) and Online Education (OE) • Supports on-campus students

  5. Let’s try it out! http://goo.gl/ClVef Enter your name and press “Log in” https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?miuid=C557ACA549743B69A8F6E11062DB6423&sid=2011271

  6. Some stats • Over 145 instructors and staff as moderators in the system • 208 individual rooms • 134 for formal courses • 74 virtual offices, other collaborations, sandboxes • 12 courses this term • All faculties • 582 recordings, 37Gb, 7000 views • Avg. recording watched 8.5 times • Avg. length of session ≈1:10 mins • Avg. size 63MB

  7. New features since 2011 • In-built echo cancelling • Increased data storage • Mobile apps • Android – Google Play Store • iPhone, iPad, iPods – iTunes Store

  8. New features since 2011 • One-click control of access to tools • Automatically created downloadable formats (MP3/MP4) • In-built phone conferencing backup

  9. Contacts and Questions Blackboard Collaborate online resources: http://support.blackboardcollaborate.com ITS Helpdesk Nick Baker Acting Director, Office of Open LearningErie Hall 1111 email: nbaker@uwindsor.ca ext. 4925

  10. Key features • Real-time audio and video communication • F2F or remote students simultaneously (large or small classes) • Ability to record and playback, download • Interactive whiteboard/presentation space • Create on the fly, draw freehand, insert text • Pre-load PowerPoint, images • Text chat • Show reactions via emoticons • Breakout rooms

  11. Key features • Application/desktop sharing • Web tours • Polls and quizzes • Mobile apps • Dial-in if no internet connection • Works on connection speeds down to dialup (28.8kbps) • Software as a Service (Hosted SaaS) • Data stored in Canada (Calgary) • Very stable

  12. What can it do for us? • Enables greater student-teacher, student-student interaction • Breakout rooms facilitate inquiry/problem/ case-based learning & teaching • Enables students to collaborate on projects when they can’t physically get together • Record lectures for student review • Pre-record & use class time for active learning • Record live lectures in class • Can be used to deliver lectures to small or large classes

  13. What can it do for us? • Online assessment (formative & summative) • Remote students can deliver presentations • Oral exams • Mock interviews • Record group collaboration sessions to see process as well as product • Peer feedback • Increases flexibility • Students/faculty can use it wherever they have internet/computer • Inclement weather

  14. Other uses • Desktop web conferencing • Webinars • Research/professional group meetings • Outreach • Recruitment • Cost savings (e.g. Reducing travel) • Doesn’t replace CLEW – extends capabilities into real-time collaboration

  15. The virtual classroom in action

  16. How is it currently being used at UWindsor? • Recording lectures (live and pre-recorded) • Student review of lectures • Distance courses • Bringing remote students into the on-campus classroom • Live DE lectures/discussions • On-campus student group projects • Virtual office hours

  17. How is it currently being used at UWindsor? • Remote student presentations • Backup for F2F classes/meetings • Deliver classes remotely while away • Students who usually travel joining in remotely during inclement weather • Research collaborations

  18. References • Carbonaro, M. et. al., 2008. Integration of e-learning technologies in an interprofessional health science course. Medical Teacher, 30(1): 25-33 • McBrien, J.L. et. al. 2009. Virtual Spaces: Employing a Synchronous Online Classroom to Facilitate Student Engagement in Online Learning. The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 10(3). Online: http://www.irrodl.org.ezproxy.uwindsor.ca/index.php/irrodl/article/viewArticle/605 • Little et. al. 2006. Using synchronous software in web-based nursing courses. CIN: Computers, Informatics, Nursing. 24(6): 317-325

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