Ray Henderson
Jessica Finnefrock
Entertaining "PC vs Mac" videos
Phil Chatterton as Bb NG and John as Old Bb
Ray Henderson descends as an Angel for "meeting the challenges for the future."
Ray to Michael - We need better communications. You can't overcommunicate.
So will publish today on Twitter, Facebook, Bb Blog, E-mail, Ray's blog, etc.
Next Phase of Project NG
The Tribes: BIE, CSC, Bb Clients, WebCT Clients, Angel Clients, Standards Organizations, Partners/Developers
Long-term Strategy for NG
- Universal access to Education
Common Architecture
Sharing of courses and programs as more course materials move online
- Ability to measure educations results
- Utilizing mobile social technologies as a key part of education process
- Need to highly personalize and customize the learning experience
- Ability to handle more interactive content
- Support true K-20 teach and learning
- Improve teacher efficiency and flexibility
The MyCourses page can also be connected to Angel courses as well as Moodle, Sakai, WebCT & Bb
Better interactive content
API pulls in YouTube without copy and pasting all the time
NBC partnership - access to professional newsfeeds
iTunes U - pull in content
Echo360 - capture lecture
Wimba Pronto - instant messaging
Added Wiki technology - add rubric - attach to gradebook
K-12 Lesson Plan
Alignment to state standards
Map standards to assignments
Best of Bb and WebCT - Learning Modules
Management of Course Content - no other license fees needed; Drag and Drop content into the course, organize and view the content.
Higher Education Act
- Textbooks & Materials - textbook assigned to this course
- Acxiom Identify-X Form - security questions asked to verify they are who they say they are. Can pop up before a test or at other times.
Ray will discuss first 50 Days at Bb
Operationalize Michael's broader description of where we are going
Ray's background
- From Kansas
- Has been in education most of his life
- Teacher, Learner, Textbook publisher, instructional technologists
- Was in a "telenet" classes
- Science textbooks industry - better personalize instruction for students
- Pearson - infrastructure CourseCompass and MathLabs
- eCollege 10 years ago
- 4 years at Angel
- Client Support
- Transparency
- Openness
- Innovation
Graph of Bb Client Support
- 58% of the problems took 90 days to resolve most issues;
-now 16%;
Features in balance with system/product support
Transparency
Hunger from the customer-base about rationale on decisions being made
Willingness to engage; blogging and linking to others who disagree or see it differently
What's in his blogs including the Mea Culpa to WebCT clients about lack of support in early merge of Bb and WebCT
Openness
His blog mentions leadership in IMS import/export (Common Cartridge)
Direction: First steps on Open Database in NG
Product Innovation
Point of balance with other work to be done
More significant progress in accessibility
Bb Learn Report Card
User experience
Support resolution
Open standards
Other metrics
Request: Plan your path to NG
Back to Michael Chasen
MobilEdu
Bought a company responsible for writing iPhone apps and mobile web applications for Higher Educatio . Stanford, Duke, Texas A&M, UCSD, etc.
Introduction to 2 people who are now Bb employees and programmed these applications.
Maps, directory, bills, courses, athletics, events brought together in one place - your pocket on your cell phone!
Interactive Campus map
Find a friend in the campus directory
Demonstration about how each of these work on the cell phone to get campus information.
Search the University's catalog
Check out news items on each athletic team
Stanford iTunes - watch the videos
News feeds for campus
Video: "Is that your campus in your pocket?"
Final Thoughts
Overview of sessions "not to miss."
Thank you to sponsors.
Final video with the original leaders of CourseInfo, WebCT and Angel with Old Bb and Bb NG.
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