blackboard learn presentation - internet librarian 2011
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Anita R. Dryden, Digital & Web Projects Fellow Chris=na H. Gola, Head of Instruc=on & Outreach
} ~40,000 students
} Commuter campus
} High # transfer students
} Decentralized
} Tier One Aspira=ons
Shasta III, Courtesy of Special Collec=ons, UH Libraries Digital Library
} Driven by a few tech-‐savvy liaisons
} ScaQered, inconsistent
} Libguides & Meebo “Puzzle Pieces” from Flickr user andrewmalone
} Instruc=onal Designers
} Managers of Blackboard Vista and more
} Short staffed and underfunded
“solu;on” from istockphoto
} History, oops! Value??
} PHP script using Blackboard’s template variables from UT Libraries
} “Library Course” – students self enroll
“Blue Screen of Death” from stock.xchng user cdw0107
} Simple for anyone to understand
} Easy to communicate
} First steps are “tech free”
} Little effort needed on FDIS side
} Identified courses
} Course builder with permission
} Manually linked to LibGuides
} Gathered stats from one semester
“Copy Cats Ahead” from iStockPhoto
3,872 hits
in one semester
} Still too much work for implementing in Blackboard VISTA, but…
} Blackboard Learn
} Implementation Team
“Heres is a top” from stock.xchng user blary54
} Training - 4 days, all day
} Not all relevant
} But we learned everything
} Got more than we wanted
} Campus Level ◦ Variety of content
} Course level ◦ Class Guides
“Take Two” from stock.xchng user Ulrik
} Courses/Organiza=ons
} Tabs
} Content Collec=on ◦ Individual ◦ Course/Organiza=on ◦ Ins=tu=on ◦ Library
} Research Guides (course level)
} Library Tab (institution level)
} E-Reserves (content collection) – maybe!
} Discovery at point of need
} Automated process necessary for 1800 courses per semester
} Dynamic links pass subject code and course number
} Linking vs. Embedding
} Based on Duke Model
} Library has administrator privileges
} “Modules” for customizable content
} Dynamic content from other library systems
} Focused on point-of-need research help
} Part of “content collection”
} Folders are automatically created for each course
} Folders expire each semester and content embargoed for reuse
} Dynamic content wherever possible
} Minimal library staff working in Bb
} E-‐Reserves, largely similar to current workflows
“Low Maintenance” from Flickr user WiQy Name
