Moving beyond Blackboard: The VLE journey at Dundee

E-‐Learning for the Learner: the challenge of providing learner centred educa6on in the Age of the Internet

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Moving Beyond Blackboard: The VLE journey at Dundee Natalie Lafferty

VLE -‐ Gone full circle a bit of a bumpy ride

Blackboard VLE

Curriculum Map

Loss of curriculum map

Customised Year Pages

Student & staff feedback

Increasingly nega6ve •  Usability issues •  Loss of curriculum map •  Loss of 6metable •  Access issues •  Staff disengagement

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VLE -‐ One size does not fit all

Dundee MBChB -‐ Spiral curriculum

VLE primarily just suppor6ng transmission of informa6on?

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•  Commonly used as a blogging pla_orm •  Open source with large developer community

•  Used in in higher educa6on to support online learning

•  Wide range of plug-‐ins support customisa6on

First pilots Blogging doctors suppor6ng learning

Student Feedback Useful links to journals, other sites, embedded video Informa6on easy to find Good revision aid 78% wanted other teaching blocks to do something similar Lack of forma6ve assessment opportuni6es http://www.flickr.com/photos/nfsa/4580070895/sizes/z/in/photostream/

Students liked & wanted more forma6ve assessment

Second phase pilots -‐ WordPress installed on local server University LDAP login

Delivering lectures -‐ interac6ve 6metable -‐ forma6ve assessment -‐ ask Dundee Chest

Student Feedback 85% preferred it to Blackboard Blog format more intui6ve & easy to use and explore Loved sefng the site to my homepage so could easily check announcements & latest comments

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Replica6ng DundeeChest approach in Blackboard

Student Feedback The actual learning in Endocrinology was almost always excellent and I enjoyed it. However I found the Blackboard experience very poor. (It was equally poor in semester one and two of first year). Having a Dundee Endocrinology developed like Dundee Chest would be absolutely excellent -‐ going back to using Blackboard amer having Dundee Chest was very depressing.


Student Feedback The blog format was leaps and bounds be9er than blackboard. It’s intui6ve, easy to use, and be9er to students to explore all the resources available (much of which I didn't even know about simply because of BB's format).


4th & 5th year study guides staff & students

Staff Feedback

Easy to use

Ease of access in NHS

Speed of access

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Personalisa6on

Reflec6ng the personality and flavour of each individual clinical specialty

Flexibility to support teaching

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Increased staff engagement in the use of educa6onal technology focusing on what

and how they wanted to teach

Implementa6on

Undergraduate Medical Educa6on Commi9ee decision to migrate Phase 2 teaching from Blackboard

to Dundee MBChB learning portal for 2011/12

Integra6ng early years teaching with clinical years teaching

Integra6ng curriculum themes

Providing links & pulling in informa6on from journals & social bookmarks using RSS feeds

TWITTER

Phase 2 Student Feedback I think medblogs is a great addi6on to the elearning environment. Medblogs is a fantas6c resource and much more useful than Blackboard ever was. Medblogs system was extremely useful and very user friendly


Phase 2 Student Feedback I think medblogs is a great addi6on to the elearning environment. Medblogs is a fantas6c resource and much more useful than Blackboard ever was. Medblogs system was extremely useful and very user friendly


Phase 2 Student Feedback Areas for improvement •  Discussion board •  Announcement management •  Missing lectures •  More forma6ve assessment

wanted •  More interac6ve elearning

tutorials wanted


Implementa6on

Migra6on of Phase 3 clinical teaching from Blackboard to Dundee MBChB learning portal

for 2012/13 & integra6on with new 6metable and learning repository

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Student centred – Self-‐directed learning & educa6onally led

VLE Journey

(Siemens 2005; Sandars 2009)

Student developed content

Stage 1 Bespoke In-‐house VLE

Stage 2 Blackboard Ins6tu6onal VLE

Stage 3 Wordpress Mul6user site

Dundee VLE Journey

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Overall Outcomes •  A community of interest and learning practice

is emerging •  Teaching staff becoming more confident in

using technology to support their teaching •  Teachers sharing good practice •  Increasing student engagement •  Staff & student advisory groups informing

future developments

Natalie Lafferty Email: [email protected] Twi9er: @nlafferty

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Moving beyond Blackboard: The VLE journey at Dundee