20110413 TU Delft improve the use of blackboard with support of eesysoft
1. Improve the Use of Blackboard with Support of Eesysoft Willem van Valkenburg, SSC-ICT Education Technology, Delft University of Technology
2. Who am I? Willem van Valkenburg Manager of TU Delft VLE (Blackboard) Project leader TU Delft Mobile Director TU Delft OpenCourseWare Chair of the Dutch Blackboard Usergroup(NLBbUG) Twitter on twitter.com/wfvanvalkenburg Blog on www.e-learn.nl Presentation will be available on http://slideshare.net/wfvanvalkenburg
3. TU Delft: Basic Data www.tudelft.nl TU Delft Faculties: 8 Bachelor programmes: 16 Master programmes: 39 Total number of students: 16,500 International students: 14% Scientific staff: 2,700 Number of PhD-theses per year: 260 Focal Multi-disciplinary Research Programs: Energy, Health, Infrastructures, Environment. 3
5. Blackboard user since 1999 Blackboard Learn 9.1 with Content System Community System (Portal) Blackboard Mobile Learn and Central Wimba Collaboration Suite Daily >10k unique logins Around 8k courses (2 years) Introduction
22. Conclusions ELS Most of the instructors use ELS They are satisfied with the response The attendance of the workshops is low Reasons Not all instructors start their classes in September They want short instruction video’s at the moment they needed
24. What do students think of their courses? (2) Positive Information up-to-date Well structured Tests Announcements Assignments Negative Not up-to-date Not well structured No communication Wrong use of features Little used
25. Summary Both instructors and students are positive about Blackboard, but… Many of the available features are not being used, because: They are not aware of their existence They don’t know how to use it They want to be supported and informed at the moment of need and 24x7