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Sasan Salari
VP, New Technology Services
Head, Vista Developers Network
[email protected]
Topics
• What is the WebCT PowerLinks Network?
• Who are the PowerLink Partners?
• How will WebCT designers, instructors,
administrators benefit from these
solutions?
• Where can more information be found?
The PowerLinks Network?
• Select best-of-breed partner products and
services
• Solutions that Complement WebCT's state-ofthe-art e-learning systems.
• Interoperability that is based on well established
standards, creating reusable solutions.
• A Network of committed vendors of campus
technologies to high-quality course content and
leading-edge learning applications.
Why WebCT PowerLinks?
• Flexibility to pick and choose the technologies
that extend the learning platform
• 3rd party tools woven in to the WebCT e-learning
environment
• Ability for bi-directional content & data
transferring with external systems
• Provide limitless capability to customize the
e-learning experience
PowerLinks Pay Off
• Improved end-user satisfaction and flexibility
– Seamless transition between systems
• Reduced time maintaining redundant systems:
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Enrollment data
Login/passwords
Course Resources
Communication tools
• Lower TCO
– Lower cost of integration
– Lower cost of maintenance/upgrades
Technology Partners
Technology Partners and
Solutions
PowerLinks for Technology
• Strategic relationships with worldwide
hardware vendors
• Integrated offering with key enabling
technologies
• Performance testing and configuration
recommendations
• Ensuring that WebCT is secure, reliable
and always available
Gartner Survey
According to Gartner Research:
• 73% of institutions have selected a standard CMS1
– SIS integration at over 80% of institutions
Gartner Research predicts that by 2005:
• Academic technology services will supplant ERP as the
next major new investment in higher education. 2
• More than 70% of students will be enrolled in courses
that use e-learning2
Research Note DF-18-8100, “Higher Education Institutions Should Select a Standard CMS,” 30 April 2003.
Research Note COM-19-9149, “Integration Indicates Higher-Education E-Learning Commitment,” 1 May 2003.
2 Gartner Research Note COM 18-9597, “Higher Education IT Gets Academic,” 10 December 2002.
1Gartner
1Gartner
Why PowerLinks for Admins?
• Able to support real-time integration,
streamlining the registration process for course
enrollment
• Integration can provide seamless services
across academic and administrative services
including portal, ePortfolio, and registration.
• Experienced in supporting real-time
interoperability with student information
systems
• Providing certified solutions with commercial
SIS vendors and custom integration with
bespoke systems.
Sample WebCT/SIS/Portal Integration
ADMINISTRATIVE
ACADEMIC
Single Sign-on via Portal/Web Self
Service Applications
NEEDS
NEEDS
To WebCT from SIS
• Basic Course Data
• Class List/Roster
• Enrollment Changes
Student
System
Integration
Adaptors
From WebCT To SIS
• Grades (where supported)
Academic
Courses
Content
Communities
& Resources
Update - SIS Partner Adaptors
SIS
WebCT/SIS
Integration
Availability
Single Sign-On
(SSO)
Data
Synch
Grade
Exchange
Datatel
• As of CE Inst. 4.0
• Available Now
• WebAdvisor selfservice application
• Campus Cruiser
• Real-time
Yes, to &
from
WebCT
• Via PSoft Portal or
PSoft Learner
Applications
• Batch
Not
supported
by PSoft
currently
• Campus Pipeline
• Luminis Portal
• Real-time
Yes, from
WebCT to
SCT.
5k annual fee
• As of CE Inst. 4.1
Integration
• As of Vista 2.1
adaptor Included • Available Now
PeopleSoft
in SA
maintenance
SCT
Perpetual
license fees
apply
• Banner, PLUS, Luminis
• As of CE Inst. 4.2
• As of Vista 3.0
• Available now
Content Partners
Content Alliances Key Driver
“Academic e-Learning Must Confront
Content Development Costs:
Higher education must find better, less
costly ways to fill it’s e-learning conduits.”
Gartner, April 2003
Today’s content solutions
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2700 e-packs in 50 disciplines
All e-Packs available for Vista
Growing availability of specialized content
Available through the Content Showcase, a
single channel built to support and empower
WebCT’s customers
• Dedicated WebCT Support team, providing
added resources to local administration and
support
WebCT PowerLinks Network
Content Partners
Online Teaching:
Ready? Set! Go…
"WebCT e-Pack content, such as online quiz banks or video clips, engages students in
the learning experience and adds a level of interactivity that is critical to their
success in the course. I am able to incorporate innovative online content
with almost no effort required on my part - it's all contained in the e-Pack and
ready to use with WebCT.”
Prof. Janice Stoudemire
Business Department
Midlands Technical College
“WebCT e-Packs have allowed all the schools in our system to serve students
whom we never would have seen in the face-to-face classroom. By
enabling instructors to develop courses more quickly, use publisher resources
more efficiently, and minimize course management demands, e-Packs have
had a major impact on enrollment.”
Lance Crocker
Southern Maine Technical College
What customers are saying:
• 55% of campus customers use e-packs to jump
start faculty adoption of WebCT
• Student usage of e-packs up 24%
• e-Packs provide a launching point for new
faculty
• Cuts time for an instructor to get online by
50 – 80%
• Provides high quality resources instructors
cannot create themselves (games, simulations,
ppt., self study tools)
• Leverages campus investment in WebCT
Resources for faculty
• Online catalog, fully searchable by discipline,
author, media type
• Dedicated Support in Vancouver for faculty
using e-packs, a welcome supplement to your
on-campus resources
• “Key Features” supports instructors in
selecting the right e-pack, based on easy
visibility to 8 highly requested features
Key Features of e-Packs
Question database ~ Includes a Questions Database with 1-1000 questions, 10012500 questions, or 2500+ questions.
Interactive media ~ Includes interactive exercises, simulations, or explanations that may
include audio.
Flashcards / Glossary ~ Includes terminology flashcards or a glossary.
Video animations Includes animated elements that are not interactive and may include audio.
Critical thinking activities Includes activities that challenge students to apply knowledge or
to expand their understanding on their own, such as case studies, essays, and simulations.
Instructor resources Includes resources, such as a teaching guide or a set of slides, that are
intended for or only available to instructors.
Varied question types ~ Includes a Questions Database with three or more question types.
eBook ~ Includes an electronic version of the complete textbook.
Compelling digital content:
our message to our Partners
• solves a real academic challenge in a compelling
way
• uses media and technology in a way that faculty
and schools can’t easily create for themselves
• gives faculty the ability to “make it their own”—
personalization or customization
• comes with support for faculty as they learn to
customize, adopt their teaching to the new
content and while they are managing courses that
contain the content
• ease of use and ease of discoverability
• provides a better value for students
Content Alliances: 2004 focus
• Build PowerLinks for key discipline specific
applications
• Extend WebCT’s content story by adding to our epack resources: library content, campus developed
content, and SCORM content
• Enhance and extend the role of Digital Content
Leaders on WebCT campuses as advocates
• Build out “content solutions” in key verticals:
business, medicine, law
e-Packs are coming of age
• PowerLinks delivered for fall with most popular
learning applications:
• Partners working with partners
– MyMathLab (PearsonEducation)
– Personal Trainer (Thomson SouthWestern)
– SimNet (McGraw Hill Higher )
– ilrn (Thomson Higher Education)
• Major content companies partnering with
WebCT and campus leaders to define and test
new models for packaging and distributing
content
Beyond e-packs:
opportunities with new partners
• Revenue generation for campus
customers
– University College of the Cariboo: pin
protecting and selling an instructor created
course in their bookstore this fall
• Faculty generated learning objects
– MERLOT is now a WebCT partner!
Gartner Predicts
• By 2005, supplemental use of e-learning among faculty will rise from
28% to more than 50%.
• By 2005, more than 70% of students will be enrolled in courses that
use e-learning.
• By 2005, the amount of digital material delivered per student will
quadruple.
• Institutions must plan for geometric, rather than arithmetic, growth in
e-learning system capacity.
"Higher Education E-Learning Grows Up”, 5-03, Gartner Research
Learning
Application Partners
Why WebCT PowerLink
Application Partners?
• Complimentary technologies that extend
the WebCT learning platform
• Best of Breed applications
• Technology fit – browser support, platform
support, and user
• A focus on worldwide Higher Education
• Committed to WebCT customer base
Access to Tools Across Systems
• Recognizing the user as they move
from one server to another.
• Using WebCT as the launch location
for creating, managing and delivering
online resources for teaching and
learning.
• Leveraging the applications for what
they were created to do.
Explore PowerLinks Partners
• Authoring Tools
• Tools for Instruction
• Content Management and Search Tools
Authoring Tools
• Allow offline creation of Content Modules,
Learning Modules and other web content
• Provide an environment for collaboration,
workflow and version control
• Create standards based content that can be
used in WebCT or other delivery systems
including mobile devices
Authoring Solutions From
PowerLink Partners
Solutions
Partner
CE
Vista
Condense the size of your
PowerPoint, create multi-media
3.6+
1.0+
Offline Content Creation
Multi devise multi-media
4.0+
2.0+
Collaborate offline to create
assessable content/learning
modules
4.0+
2.0+
Quiz creation and management
3.6+
2.1+
Dreamweaver & WebCT:
HTML content
Web Sites
or Pages
(.html)
Dreamweaver & WebCT:
Content and Learning Modules
Web Sites
or Pages
(.html)
WebCT CE
Content Modules
(IMS CP, .zip)
WebCT Vista
Learning Modules
(IMS CP, .zip)
Build content in Dreamweaver
Build Content Module, saves
it as a single .zip file (IMS CP)
Import in WebCT Course
(from institutional repository, library, or even your desktop)
Content Module inside
WebCT Course
Content Module launched inside
WebCT course
Free Dreamweaver Extension
Tools for Instruction
TurnitIn.com
Plagiarism Protection
WIMBA
Voice Enabling Tools
HorizonLive
Link Systems
QuestionMark
Brownstone
Software Secure
Tegrity
Silicon Chalk
eInstruction
Synchronous Collaboration
Assessment Authoring and Delivery
Engine and secure testing
environment
Increase Classroom Interactivity
Content Applications
Reading Lists
Collect resources with data that describes the item
and its pedagogical purpose. (Sentient, Talislist)
Object
Repositories
Systems that manage structured assets, with
metadata to facilitate search and retrieval. (Harvest
Road, The Learning Edge, Concord)
Search Tools
Federated Search gateways offer searching of
identified repositories offering ONE search term,
interface and ONE merged result list. (Endeavor
Encompass, MetaLib,
Portfolio
An extended, dynamic CV, establishing links to an
online database, which contains personal and
professional achievements, team results, references
and all relevant evidence of competence obtained in the
course of work and learning. (Nuventive, Taskstream,
CollegeLive Text)
Example Library Application
Faculty Create Reading Lists
• Simple interface that
empowers faculty to
search and collect
resources
• Meta-data is stored
in Sentient, Content
remains in the
repository
Faculty Can Upload Resources
• Use the WebCT File
Manager to store
lecture notes,
presentations or
papers
• Reading Lists can
include faculty, student
or publisher materials
• Faculty and librarians
can both contribute to
the Reading Lists
Reading Lists For Disciplines,
Courses or Topics
• Students may
be given
access to one
or many
Reading Lists
for their
course/module.
WebCT & Sentient Provide
Context for Resource Usage
• Designers
provide context
on the
educational
purpose
Student is Recognized and
Provided Access Options
• Seamless
access to the
library
services and
resources
• Linking to
check
availability in
their library
OPAC or other
local libraries
Seamless Integration to the
Library Catalogue
The Reading List Can Link to
a Learning Object in MERLOT
Example Portfolio
Areas of Integration
File Manager / File Sharing
From within iWebfolio, students could
browse their ‘my files’ folder in Vista and
select documents to be pulled into their
permanent portfolio in iWebfolio.
Areas of Integration
Availability
• When is integration available – May 2004
• How to get a Demo – Contact Nuventive at
877-968-0156 or visit their web site
www.nuventive.com
Example Content System
WebCT PowerLink 1.0
• Browse or Search Hive Repository within
WebCT
• Make Links to Latest or Specific Versions
• Make Links to Original, HTML… formats
• Proxy Tool
– Single Sign On
– Application Bridging
Hive PowerLink – Select Tool
Choose Hive PowerLink
from “More Tools”
Enter a Title then
press
“Locate Content
in Hive”
Hive PowerLink – Browse or
Search
Seamless login to
Hive, showing
Browse and
Search screen
Hive PowerLink – Select
“Link”
View, see
metadata, then
select your item
Hive PowerLink – Choose
Link options
Specify latest or specific version;
original or html format, then
“Send Link to Vista”
Hive PowerLink – Preview in
WebCT
Content served to any
course sections, learning
modules; maintained in
quality controlled repository.
More Information?
http://www.harvestroad.com/
+61 8 9338 3000
Application Partners
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Authoring
Content Management
Portfolio
Library Resources
Assessment
Classroom Tools
Technology
Partner Solution Focus in
2004
• Digital Repositories and Portfolios
• Math, science and writing tools
– Streamline processes for large courses
• Authoring Tools
– Content creation tools for novice users
• Reporting Applications
– Deliver decision making data
• PDA/Offline Applications
– Extending the learning experience
Visit:
http://www.webct.com/powerlinks
www.webct.com/powerlinks
Application PowerLinks
Available NOW
Prepare resource lists
CE
Vista
Learning Content packager and
management systems
CE
CE
Vista
Enhance server access speed
Ensure high availability
CE
CE
Vista
Add results from quizzes taken
outside of WebCT
CE
SCORM
Use Voice boards and audio
discussions
CE
Vista
Application sharing, Collaborate
CE
CE
Offline authoring of WebCT
content and SCORM objects
CE
CE
Offline authoring of quizzes and
games
Vista
Vista
PowerLinks Coming Soon
Authenticate into a WebCT course
CE
Vista
Manage writing assignments and
verify authenticity
Vista
Include feedback from class polls into
the grade book
CE
CE
Add results from quizzes taken
outside of WebCT
CE
Add library resources into a course
Application sharing, Collaborate
Vista
Vista
CE
CE
Vista
Vista
ePortfolio for accreditation standards
Vista
Enhanced Content Management
Vista
Recommend a PowerLink
• Who can join the PowerLink
Network?
– Any commercial vendor
demonstrating a technology and
market fit
• How Partners Join the Network?
– Complete the partner inquiry form
at: www.webct.com/partners
– Recommended by a WebCT
Customer
Reasons to
Use PowerLink Partners
• Best of Breed Applications
• Power Links are registered
with WebCT Customer
Support
• Power Links work with
– WebCT Campus Edition 4.1
– WebCT Vista 2.1+
Thank You
Questions?
[email protected]