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From Blackboard to Desire2Learn
Gregory Beyrer
July 22, 2010
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From Blackboard to Desire2Learn
Gregory Beyrer
Glossary
 Organizations
CRC = Cosumnes River College
CVC = California Virtual Campus
 Software
LMS = learning management system
Bb = Blackboard
D2L = Desire2Learn
Overview
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CRC’s LMS history
How we decided to switch
Why we chose Desire2Learn
Transition timeline
Helping users change
Assessing the alteration
Q&A
CRC and Blackboard
 Bb was CRC’s first LMS
 CVC pilot then district-wide license in fall 2001
 Faculty-led dramatic growth
Spring 2001 to spring 2007:
 Bb sections from 13 to 657
 Bb enrollments from 272 to 16,360
 Of CRC’s Bb courses in spring 2007, 19%
were fully online
A Question for the Audience
 Has your institution been using the same LMS
for more than five years?
How We Decided to Switch
 Periodic assessment of faculty and
student user satisfaction
 District-wide Educational Technology
Committee initiated a process in spring
2007 to compare alternatives
 Technically valid options first
 Representative task group made
recommendation to committee
Why Desire2Learn
 Ease in transferring extant content
 Ease of use
 Feature set includes tools for
documenting the achievement of student
learning outcomes
D2L fits well with our faculty users’
desires to customize the online learning
environment at the course level
A Question for the Audience
 Does your primary institution use Blackboard?
Transition Timeline (1 of 2)
Spring 2008: Train the trainers; create training
materials for users with and without Bb
experience; identify faculty for summer pilot;
train pilots, help desk, and college support
staff; convert Bb course export files
Summer 2008: Pilot classes, begin mass
training, revise system and training materials
based on user input (student and faculty
assessment)
Transition Timeline (2 of 2)
Fall 2008: Faculty choose which system to use,
switch primary infrastructure to support D2L,
encourage all faculty to participate in D2L
training, revise based on user input
Spring 2009: Faculty choose which system to
use, finish training faculty, finish converting Bb
course export files, revise based on user input
Summer 2009: All district-supported LMS
courses on Desire2Learn
Helping Faculty Change
 Easy to use / similar concepts
 Content conversion
 Training and documents for Bb users
 “Bb to D2L: Step by Step”
 “Control Panel Cheat Sheet”
 Additional summer support
 Yearlong transition
Helping Students Change
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Easy to use / similar concepts
Faculty-led transition
Desktop videos
Self-paced course built in to the system
One number to call for help
A Question for the Audience
 How does your institution assess the
effectiveness of its LMS investment?
Assessing the Alteration
 Regular user surveys
…Faculty and students
…Summer 2008, fall 2008, spring 2009
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Faculty comments
Student comments
Weekly meetings of LMS team
The perspective of a distance education
coordinator
Q&A
Gregory Beyrer
[email protected]
crc.losrios.edu/gregory.beyrer
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