- 1. WHAT WE ARE GOING TO LEARN TODAY? 1. How Salford is
strategically embedding Collaborate use across the University. 2.
How staff are using Collaborate for different purposes, e.g.
marketing, support, teaching and learning, flipping classrooms,
blended learning, research, meetings, etc. Some of the benefits and
drawbacks with hints and tips along the way.
2. Collaborate: A Room with a View Gillian Fielding Digital
Skills Manager University of Salford T: g_fielding Slides are on
SlideShare 3. ABOUT ME Gillian Fielding Digital Skills Manager
University of Salford [email protected] g_fielding I have
used Blackboard for 16 years (since 1998 when it was free!). I can.
4. SALFORD Kings Arms Pub Worlds 1st free public library BBC Media
City Emmeline Pankhurst LS Lowry Walter Greenwood Peter Hook Paul
Scholes Sir Peter Maxwell Davies 1st gas lit street James Prescott
Joule Marx & Engels Albert Finney 5. ABOUT US (UOS) 20000
students, 2000 staff, 250 academic programmes Human Resources
DepartmentHuman Resource DevelopmentAcademic DevelopmentDigital
Skills Team 5 x Digital Skills trainers including 1 student intern
2 x Academic Developer 2 x Learning Technologists 1 x Learning
Systems Technology Manager 1 x Head of Academic Development 6. WHAT
WE ARE GOING TO LEARN TODAY? 1. How Salford is strategically
embedding Collaborate use across the University. 2. How staff are
using Collaborate for different purposes, e.g. marketing, support,
teaching and learning, flipping classrooms, blended learning,
research, meetings, etc. 3. Some of the benefits and drawbacks. 4.
With hints and tips along the way. 7. OUR CHALLENGE To get more out
of Collaborate across the University. After all we have it, pay a
substantial license fee for it, lets get more out of it. 8. OUR
SOLUTION Give an overview of the pieces, processes and/or steps
involved in your solution. 9. OUR STRATEGY - 1 No formal
(Collaborate) strategy Official launch - Summer School 2013 Target
1 School and 1 Professional Service to embed fully. The School of
Built Environment and the Library (Vice Chancellor webinars)
(Strategic opportunities or piggy-backing on someone elses work)
One step at a time (before the mountain) 10. OUR STRATEGY - 2
Target 1 School and 1 Professional Service to embed fully. The
School of Built Environment The Library 11. OUR STRATEGY - 3 Vice
Chancellor webinars Topics The Universitys strategic plan 26
attendees Post Graduate Support - tba Benefits: 1. First time use
for some staff, 2. First time for Internal Comms Dept 3. First time
for me - . 12. OUR STRATEGY - 4 Strategic opportunities or
piggy-backing on someone elses work 1. Finance Policy and
procedures 2. Personal tutoring 3. Staff Development activities 13.
OUR STRATEGY - 5 One step at a time Softly, softly Dont scare staff
away Build to up that mountain 14. HERES HOW WE ARE USING
COLLABORATE - 1 Name: Helen Parker Role: Skills and Recognition
Manager in Student Life Uses: Flipped classroom on Critical
Analysis, Planning your Assignment and Academic Writing Skills for
UG and PG students Benefits: Available 24/7, Empowers students 15.
HERES HOW WE ARE USING COLLABORATE - 2 Bringing the virtual
lecturer and virtual participants to the physical participants
together. 16. HERES HOW WE ARE USING COLLABORATE - 2 17. HERES HOW
WE ARE USING COLLABORATE - 3 Name: Gillian Fielding Role: Lecturer
on the PGCAP FDOL module Uses: DL, bringing students virtually into
the physical class, Benefits: Practice what we preach, inclusive,
taught from anywhere, learn from anywhere, flexible, recorded,
edgy! Flexible Distance online 18. HERES HOW WE ARE USING
COLLABORATE - 4 Used short videos + Blackboard tests Step towards a
flipped classroom model Benefits: Year No. of students over 70%
2013 Over 78% 2014 Over 90% Avg mark Over 70% 2013 57% 64% 2014 22%
42% Huw Morgan, TEL Champion PhD student 19. The student voice from
Megan.. I wish everything was flipped. Lecture time can be a lot
more productive. Benefits: Grades rose Understood, liked workings
out Confidence increased 20. HERES HOW WE ARE USING COLLABORATE - 5
Name: Vicky Hennessy Role: Uses: Marketing and recruitment
Benefits: Worldwide access to prospective students How many
students/per cent increase? 21. HERES HOW WE ARE USING COLLABORATE
- 6 Name: Menaha Thayaparen Role: Lecturer Uses: Research Project
Partner meetings AND Doctoral School Benefits: Allows 22. HERES HOW
WE ARE USING COLLABORATE 7. Virtual Meetings 8. Virtual Conferences
9. Virtual Offices 10.Personal Tutoring 11.Student Support:
Accessibility, Careers Guidance 12.Recruitment 23. THE RESULTS
Staff are using Collaborate more 168 staff on the Collaborate
mailing list, c120 users Number of virtual offices have increased
Difficult to measure Benchmark survey 24. THE RESULTS 0 20 40 60 80
100 120 140 Sep-12 Oct-12 Nov-12 Dec-12 Jan-13 Feb-13 Mar-13 Apr-13
May-13 Jun-13 Jul-13 Aug-13 Sep-13 Oct-13 Nov-13 Dec-13 Jan-14
Feb-14 Mar-14 Apr-14 19 41 60 64 83 139 No of virtual offices 25.
WHAT BARRIERS? What barriers would you expect? (For staff to use
Collaborate?) 26. BARRIERS 1. Awareness 2. Skills 3. Equipment i.
Headsets and webcams ii. Teaching room set-up 4. Technical support
5. Confidence 27. BARRIERS 1. Awareness 2. Skills 3. Equipment i.
Headsets and webcams ii. Teaching room set-up 4. Technical support
5. Confidence 28. BARRIERS 1. Awareness 2. Skills 3. Equipment i.
Headsets and webcams ii. Teaching room set-up 4. Technical support
5. Confidence 29. BARRIERS 1 ACCESSING HEADSETS/WEBCAMS Process 1 -
failed 1. Request from ITS 2. ITS delivery and then charge your
Dept. New process 1. We suggest our recommended make and model 2.
User asks their Purchase Officer to order 3. HOD signs off Plus we
have some for loan 30. BARRIERS 1. Awareness 2. Skills 3. Equipment
i. Headsets and webcams ii. Teaching room set-up 4. Technical
support 5. Confidence 31. BARRIERS 1. Awareness 2. Skills 3.
Equipment i. Headsets and webcams ii. Teaching room set-up 4.
Technical support 5. Confidence 32. BARRIERS 1. Awareness 2. Skills
3. Equipment i. Headsets and webcams ii. Teaching room set-up 4.
Technical support 5. Confidence 33. DO THIS NEXT Whats the ONE
thing your audience should do when they get back to their
institution? Get the highest level person you can using Collaborate
for a briefing session. Set up a virtual office and do virtual
meetings. Make sure youve returned the completed BbdT&L2014
evaluation form! 34. THANK YOU AND QUESTIONS! Gillian Fielding
Digital Skills Manager University of Salford
[email protected] g_fielding These slides are on slide
sharing with copious notes and links 35. THANK YOU! 36. HERES HOW
WE ARE USING COLLABORATE - 2 Name: David Baldry Role: Lecturer
Uses: Distance Teaching for PGTs in Facilities and Construction
Management Benefits: Engagement with staff and peers, gives a more
comparable experience to on- campus courses, attachment to the
course
