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Resources for eLearning at University of Waterloo

Don Resources for eLearning at University of Waterloo September 22, 2005 Prepared for discussion with Dr. Sheira Ministry of Higher Education, Government of Egypt Don Overview Introductions History of Distance Learning Organizational Overview UW Approaches to eLearning

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Resources for eLearning at University of Waterloo

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  1. Don Resources for eLearning at University of Waterloo September 22, 2005 Prepared for discussion with Dr. Sheira Ministry of Higher Education, Government of Egypt

  2. Don Overview • Introductions • History of Distance Learning • Organizational Overview • UW Approaches to eLearning • Desire 2 Learn systems for eLearning

  3. Liwana Organizational Overview • Centralized support for computing environment – Information Systems and Technology [IST] • 2002 – Office of Associate Vice President for Learning Resources and Innovation • Audio Visual and Classroom Services • Centre for Learning and Teaching Through Technology [LT3] • Distance and Continuing Education [DCE] • Teaching Resources Office [TRACE]

  4. Don or Liwana UW Approaches to eLearning • T5: UW’s model for developing online content (Liwana – LT3) • The New Classroom Series: Faculty development for eLearning (Mark – LT3) • UW-ANGEL Course Environment [UW-ACE] (Andrea - IST) • Distance Education and Convergence in the Online Environment (Cathy - DCE) • Reusing Online materials (Kevin – LT3)

  5. Andrea UW-ACE: UW’s ANGEL Course Environment • A bit of history … • UW known for computer technology in research, but … • Software in teaching mostly discipline-specific tools • 2001-03 LT3, DCE, and IST built a learning system based on T5 • Good uptake, did not scale to campus

  6. Andrea UW-ACE • Next steps … • Central funding established for CMS • Chose software from ANGEL Learning Inc. (ALI) • Contracted ALI to build key features missing in ANGEL for T5, DCE: • Team Generator • Team Activity Generator • Export-to-CD

  7. Andrea UW-ACE • Where are we now? • UW-ACE running in its 4th term (just over one year) • First term: 220 courses and 12,000 students • Current term: 500 courses and over 19,000 students • Experiencing some growing pains!

  8. Andrea UW-ACE: Support • Who’s involved in central support? • LT3, IST, DCE, and Faculty computing staff • Who does what • Hardware and software systems: IST • Training and documentation: IST • Campus faculty support: LT3 “Liaisons” and IST • DE faculty support: DCE and IST • Students: everyone 

  9. Andrea UW-ACE: Campus Infrastructure • IST also runs the Student Admin (SA) systems • Integration points: • Course registry (indirect, through SA data extract) • Student enrollment automation (indirect, through SA data extract) • UW-specific final marks export created for upload to SA

  10. Andrea UW-ACE: Directions • UW-ACE Steering Committee guides directions and decisions • Some current issues: • Using UW-ACE for other than academic courses • New features and add-ons? • Growing for increasing needs, and system redundancy/availability

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