Transforming Education: The Future of Teaching and Learning Technologies at Harvard

1. The Future Is Now:Teaching and Learning Technologies (TLT) Harvard IT Summit | June 5, 2104

2. Agenda • TLT Program Overview • Update on Canvas Migration • Case Study: Canvas Site • Open Source Developer Community • Case Study: LTI Tool • Questions and Conversation

3. TLT Program Overview

4. What’s In a Name? Learning Management Ecosystem Black Pearl Teaching and Learning Technologies

5. Harvard IT “Big 5” Strategic Objective hpH + sCIOC + B5 + UITP&P ΣHx, SIS, TLT, IAM, Sec

6. About the Program The Vision Provide a continually evolving set of faculty-friendly, student-focused technologies that support teaching and learning across all Harvard schools, facilitate pedagogical innovation, and contribute to educational research. Strategic Objectives Guiding Principles Key Performance Indicators • Provide core teaching and learning technologies to all Schools • Support pedagogical innovation and research on learning • Establish strong Harvard community based on actual partnerships with faculty and with academic support professionals • Cultivate open source community around component development that complements core technologies • Deliver high-quality program on time, on budget, in scope • Communicate and socialize program across the University • Balance need to move quickly with thoughtful planning • Seek early and continuous faculty input from across the Schools • Transition program to ongoing services with sustained community and sustained vision • Embrace fluidity • Full-time staff focus is the rule; divided time is the exception • University migration from previous platform(s) to core technologies • Usable data from teaching and learning activities available for research • Meaningful engagement with faculty / teaching teams and with academic support professionals around needs • Harvard-specific technology enhancements and applications generated by open source community • Program delivered on time and on budget

7. Canvas

8. Canvas and Integrations

9. Extensibility

10. Extensibility

11. Inter-Operability

12. Inter-Operability

13. Extract Data for research

14. Unified User Experience

15. Unified User Experience

16. Unified User Experience

17. Timeline

19. Canvas Migration

20. Canvas Pilot: Fall 2013 • 6 courses, 530 students • Initial implementation: • Integrated course data and enrollment from Harvard registrars • PIN authentication for students and teaching staff

21. Canvas Pilot: Spring 2014 • 48 courses, 3k students • Additional development: • Integrated reserve reading lists and lecture video display • Added course shopping capability • Upgraded web conferencing features

22. Canvas Pilot: Evaluation Activities: • Surveys • UserVoice • Support tickets • User analytics Available on http://tlt.harvard.edu: • Fall report • Spring mid-term progress report • Coming soon: Springfinal report

23. Spring Pilot: Early Evaluation Results • About half of the students and three-fourths of the faculty found the interface confusing at first. • A majority of both teaching staff and students agreed that with sufficient introduction the platform works well for students. • 81% of students rated the functionality good, very good, or excellent.

24. Migration Progress We are here!

25. Program / School Migration Partnership

26. Documentation and Training • Self-paced training courses in Canvas • Workshop materials to support local training sessions • Canvas office hours

27. School Support • Academic technologists • CIOs • Faculty assistants • Faculty champions • Help desk staff • IT staff • Librarians • Registrars • Software developers • Teaching staff • Video producers

28. Case Study: Canvas Site

29. Case Study: Calculus Practitioner Series Courses • Fall 2013, Math 1a • Spring 2014, Math Mb Challenge Finding the right platform to deliver learning multimedia modules developed as part of a HILT grant-funded course innovation Solution Canvas provided required features and seamless integration Impact • Overall successful student learning (student-reported) • Overall positive student user experience (student-reported) • More multimedia modules being developed and delivered in upcoming semesters Check it out

34. Developer Community

35. Join Us! Who • Developers within Harvard • Developers beyond Harvard What • Contribute code back into Canvas • Develop and share custom LTI components Why • Share code, environments, knowledge, ideas • Build skills and community How • Reach out: http://tlt.harvard.edu/contact-us • Join our LTI hackathon in July

36. Case Study: LTI Component

37. Case Study: Student Location Tool Course CSCI E-12: Fundamentals of Website Development Challenge Finding a way for students, especially students joining at a distance, to feel more connected with campus, classmates, and teaching team Solution Build an LTI component that displays on a map where classmates and teaching staff are located based on self-identified contact and location information Impact Students and teaching staff can learn more about classmates and create informal in-person meet-ups Check it out

39. Map of student lcoations

41. Wrapping Up

42. So Far • Completed planning phase • Secured program funding • Signed license agreement with Instructure • Developing integrations and course administration tools with Canvas • Beginning to engage with teaching and learning community partners

43. What’s Next • Hire term positions: software engineer, devops, test engineer, PM, BA, UX • Lay the groundwork for open source developer community • Develop teaching and learning components • Develop capacity and guidelines to extract data for research • Roll out Canvas across the schools

44. Visit our Website http://tlt.harvard.edu