From Blackboard to Brightspace: developing online learning spaces to foster increased student engagement and deeper learning
Presented by Dan Robinson, Will Moindrot and Alex Spiers
Since 1898, the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine has provided world-leading research and education in health and tropical medicine. But our journey has only just begun. After LSTM was awarded Higher Education Institute status in 2013 a period of extensive institutional change has taken place.
It was during this period of change that LSTM undertook an ambitious project of implementing a full suite of new tools to support learning and teaching, at the core of which was a new VLE ‘Brightspace’. This presented challenges but also opportunities to design and shape the learning environment to the needs of our diverse students and exploit new techniques to develop regular engagement leading to deeper learning.
This presentation will demonstrate how the selection, design and delivery of technologies have nurtured an enhanced learning experience for staff and students at the school.
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1. From Blackboard to Brightspace: developing online learning spaces to foster increased student
engagement and deeper learning
Dan Robinson, Will Moindrot (Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine); Alex Spiers (University of Liverpool)
2. Who are we?
• Established in 1898
• The first institution in the world dedicated to
research and teaching in tropical medicine
• Heavy research focus – £300m portfolio
• 600 students worldwide, 68 countries
• Postgraduate, professional courses, short
courses
3. Sir Ronald Ross, 1st British winner of
Nobel Prize, for discovery of
transmission of malaria by mosquito
Founder Sir Alfred Jones,
Liverpool ship owner,
£350 in 1898
Dagnall Laboratory, still in use today
Venom extraction at LSTM herpetarium
School at turn of century
Our emblem, which is now
embodied in our logo
Current work includes: Impregnated
Bednet trials, Zika virus forum, Serious
Gaming
4. Background to change
• Historically systems and support provided by University of Liverpool
• Recognition in 2013 following HEI status LSTM would need it’s own
systems
• 2013/14 Review of school requirements and evaluation of VLEs
• 2014/15 Implementation: configuration and integration
• December 2014 first pilot course in BrightSpace
• Full rollout September 2015
5. Institutional Challenges
• Catering for a diverse student population
• Managing the user experience of different types of students
• Developing systems for future requirements
• Integrating with an immature IT infrastructure
• Integrating with a SIS which was in development
• Sharing of good practice
6. Requirements
Non teaching spaces
• Student and staff community spaces
• Programme homepages
Early access to systems - Pre course engagement with students
• Managed via the SIS
Personalised user experience
• Use of multiple staff and student roles
Staff access to all courses
• Use of ‘observer’ role
Integrations
• SSO
• LTI
• SIS
Visual appeal
7.
8. Use of roles to enable a personalised experience.
“Observer role”
Welcome widget
11. Current Clinical Challenges in Tropical
Medicine (Trop 938)
• 3 months, 1st Semester
• 16 students
• 10 topics (HIV, TB, …)
• For each topic, clinical case scenarios with questions released via
Brightspace 5 days in advance to complete prior to contact time
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15. Summary stats by topics
Overal Median (IQR) per topic Min Max
Cases scenarios 43 5 (3, 5) 1 7
Questions 221 23 (19, 28) 3 34
Posts 2338 246 (169, 317) 34 353
Post Expected 3536 368 (308, 444) 48 544
17. Summary stats by students
Overal Median (IQR) per
student
Min Max
Responses Posted 2300
(16 students)
142 (115, 179) 53 221
Reads of others posts 503
(13 students)
13 (6, 37) 0 158
Replies 63
(10 students)
1 (0, 7) 0 17
Average mark in %
(exam 1 + 2)
80 (76, 84) 65 95
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22. The future
• Continuous delivery - eek!
• Developing approaches to support off campus delivery
• Promotion of the Learning Object Repository
• Timetable integration
• Revisit navigation + design in light of student and staff feedback
Hinweis der Redaktion
Moodle
Blackboard
Canvas
Pebblepad
Brightspace
Ensuring design catered for future requirements
Granularity of Blackboard implementation
Poor user experience of gaining access
Multiple usernames and passwords
Inability of gaining early access
Lack of social spaces
Where did we focus our attention?
Functionality
Usability
Simple navigation and page construction
Integrations with other systems
Single sign on of all tools
Look and feel
Integrations
Turnitin
Panopto
SIS
Zopim
By using the new functionality afforded us within the Bright space platform we were able to radically transform the previous years approach to case studies, with the expectation that this would be a positive change in terms of learning gains but also have some efficiencies in using the new VLE
So lets have a look at what we did
Each of the case studies were redeveloped using the Bright space discussion board tool. They were set up using Bright space Discussion forums and the Post First Functionality.
Each case was presented in Office 365 for the students to read and then there were 5-7 question threads posted in the discussion board for each of the students to answer.
Crucially, the students couldn’t see each others responses to the questions UNTIL they had posted the board themselves.
The expectation being that this would encourage participation as there would be key information in the board that could only be accessed by contributing
This approach would also minimise the amount of coasting – which we suspect happened n previous years
No topic with cases remained uncommented
No case and no question remained unanswered
The proportion acually posted threads/ maximum expected most interesting. Two thirds of opportunities to post a thread were taken by students. How does this look over time of the module?
Expected= maximum engagement: every students posts a thread to every question of every case for each topic
Issue Diarroea < 100%, why? Single students posted a thread more than once to one question (otherwise this was disallowed)
Getting tired?
There is an overall decline in engagement
Now we are looking at the use of the DB by students
All 16 posted threads
13 read others‘ contributions, 3 did not read others‘
Only 10 replied
Not all functionalities of DBs are used
Very good marks
NB: only 2300 posted threads included