Thinking Strategically : Upgrading to Release 9

Deployment options for Bb Learn 9

• In place upgrade (for Legacy Bb systems)

From release 7.x to 9

• Fresh install

Export and import of enrolment and content
CE 4, CE 8, Vista 8, Bb5+ (Archive and restore)

• Co-production with LEC (Learning Environment Connector)
  

CE 4 and CE 8

• Co-Production with LEC leveraging Content and Community system

CE4, CE8 and Vista - Moving

• Co-production without LEC (side by side systems)
  

Running side by side WebCT version and Bb Learn 9
Authentication layer (from portal as example) at the top
Two completely different systems

NO USER DATA WILL BE IMPORTED INTO Bb Learn 9

• Appraise and align to NG

Determine when is the right time to line up with NG
9.2 multi-institutions implementation

Project Definition and success
FACTORS OF CONSIDERATION
Goals and constraints
End-user impact
Policy
Technical
EFFECTIVE PRACTICES
Project planning
Communication
Change management and governance

Decision through Governance:
Institutional Goals
Constraints
Risks and Risk Tolerance
Available Resources

eLearning Operations
Teachning and learning
Content development
Technology
Enrollment Management
Support an Training
Assessment and Improvement processes

End-User Impact:
Training, Support, Teaching and learning practices, content management

Policy
Enrollment management
Security
Teaching and learning policy

Technical Considerations:
Integrations and customizations
Architecture design and capacity planning (projected growth and demand?)
Requirements fo transition
Data lifecyle
New skill requirements
System Monitoring
Determine suitable method and approach

Vista 8 Considerations before moving
Learning Modules coming in 9.1
Course File Management in 9.1
How much do you use the learning context hierarchy? Wait. (doesn't sound like that's in 9.1)
Cross-listing also not in version 9.1
9.2 for multi-institution

Service Level Definition
Expectations, Downtime widnows, escalation paths, response times, data life cycle (keep how long?)

Change Management
Policy, Operation and Technological

Change Management and Governance
Organizational structure/Committee structure
Communication plan

Project Planning
Phases
Definitions of responsibilities/team development
Timelines
Track success measures

Upgrade Testing
Test environment

Strategize which upgrade path
Plan
Inform

Upgrade Plans?
Tell your Bb TSM - submit a ticket so they it is happening at some point in time.

Tons of documentation at the Bb site
Training and Consulting and Managed Hosting
Upgrade team of colleagues - sign up online

Early adopters have discounted and free offerings:
:Life in bb Learn 9 for WebCT CE/Vista" Workshop
Getting Started with Bb Learn 9 Technical Services (Training) - intro to the "new " system and maintain LEC
Managed hosting

Five Elements of Exceptional Tech. Enhanced Learning

By Stephen Laster, CIO, Harvard Business School

This is really all about people teaching and people learning
How do we effectively help people teach and learn? Successfully?
Thinking about quality
Why do we care?
We have an obligation to create good models

Sloan Consortium Survey about Online Learning
1) Shows 0nline education is critical to long-term strategy for institutions 58%
We are entering the mainstream!
2) Show enrollments in online courses continue to go up (not counting hybrids)
Student's medium is digital.

Five Elements

• Styles
• Design
• Context
• Community
• Adaptability

NOTE: Technology is assumed to exist and work (most of the time)

Diverse Learning Styles

• Visual - pictures and spatial
  
• Aural - sound and music
  
• Verbal - words, speech, writing
  
• Physical - body, hands, touch
  
• Logical - logic, reasoning, systems
  
• Social - groups, other people
  
• Solitary - alone, self-study

Teaching Styles

• Expert - impart their expertise; sage on the stage; not interested in being challenged
  
• Formal Authority - correct, acceptable answers
  
• Personal Model - believes in teaching by personal example
• Facilitator - guides, directs by asking, exploring, suggesting, encouraging
• Delegator - concerned with developing students' capacity to apply

Characteristics of both sides of the equation should be considered

Design
Without design, you'll probably waste your time. Design is about using your time well.
A well designed course is like a symphony - flow, guided with purpose, invoke action or reflect
Design starts with objectives and outcomes - focused
It's not putting book chapters online or syllabus online

A faculty member starts his course empty. He guides the students to fill-in the course. It ends up different every time!

How much mass customization can we (staff, faculty,organization, etc) support?

Context
Weave course experience into learner's daily life
Dynamic world
Learner centered activities build relevance and context
Freshness of content and delivery

Who should do the assembling of the materials? Faculty or lots of students?!

Community
Learning with and from others
Teams, collective learning models, games and simulations
Leverage collective intelligence (and the network of information we have today)
Distributed around the world

Education is ripe for consolidation!!

Adaptability
Leverage Unplanned opportunities
World events, new communications, new connections, breakthroughs, mistakes, uncharted territory

Encourage feedback regularly
If it is vibrant, fresh -> people are going to learn

Establish a common language
Develop curriculum focused on techniquest
Agree on investment constraints for course design and deliversy
Systematize design and development

Sloan-C Paper on measuring success

• Learning Effectiveness
• Cost Effectiveness
• Faculty satisfaction
• Student satisfaction
• ?One other?

Notes from First Keynote at Bbworld09

Michael Chasen
Welcomes the Angel Community
Over 2000 people here representing 45 countries
“Bb will be listening” at this conference.

SPEAKER: Seth Godden, author of “Tribes” – Ways and Ideas about how people come together. It’s about change.

Share some ideas about the way change spreads
Joel Spolsky leads small company in New York competes against Microsoft
He runs a tribe!

Education – where it is today?
Ford in the 1920’s – how to build a system; put systems in place
Andrew Carnegie – we will “run” out of factory workers
Invented school to train people to be compliant and to “buy” stuff as in, be consumers
Mass merchandising and mass marketing
Same mindset to the schools
We think this is the only way to do schools

Higher Education needs to step up to something different
Compliance doesn’t work to create value.
Our goal is to create value. We don’t need a TV mindset.
Creating a movement…who is going to lead us? Who else is going there?
Tribal behavior – hundreds of thousands of years it has existed.
Tribes Ascending – they have been:
1) Religious
2) Work
3) Community
4) Academy

People are looking for leaders, models, people to follow.
We all want to be connected and insiders
Basic human need is to be apart of something
Finding people who want to connect with each other
Insiders versus outsiders – your job when trying to make a change, is not about the mob/crowd. Rather, how do I find the tribe who wants to make change?
Tribes matter – bigger than word of mouth

Dean – created “Group One Hundred” – the minute it was limited, it oversubscribed.

Decide to lead!
Kiva – most successful online charity in the world – loans that change lives

Dynamics of tribal behavior
Factories are dead – which includes the learning institutions
Telling people what to do – it doesn’t work so well.
What works is the network, influence, tribal leadership, to be able to create a movement.
Connecting people and taking them where they want to go.

Garr Reynolds – Zen Presentations – Used network and people to sell his book.
Become a “rock star” to a tiny group of people
Triathlons – it’s a tribe mentality because they could all do the event alone

Making change is now called Tribal Leadership
That’s what we do for a living…we make change
What lengths are you willing to go? Tattoo the back of your neck with it?
Movements start with the “committed”

How to create a tribe?
Create a “mindset”
An amplified “positive deviant” – give them a platform

Etsy.com – helping people who want to do crafts for a living

.You don’t need to convert anyone – you just need a few good fans who care - they will spread the word

The Kindle has no “social networking” tools available – that’s a problem for “connecting” with others

Not everyone is going to follow. You don’t need everyone.
Show up and lead.
It’s tempting to go to the median of the curve. Don’t go there.

Heretics – the only tactic available
Every successful tribe has been run by a heretic!
Someone who dared to stand up for something different.

They burned “Joan of Arc” at the stake -- they don’t burn people like that anymore!

“The market for something to believe in, is infinite”

You can lead; Leadership = marketing
1) Challenge the status quo
2) Create a culture that stands for something – are you inside or outside this tribe?
3) Curiosity – always asking why or why not
4) Charisma
5) Communicate (not just down) – communicate in all directions
6) Connecting
7) Commit
8) Create meaning
9) Make a difference
10) Be noticed and have the rest of the tribe feel noticed – they matter

There are lots of free tools out there – that’s not what limits you: Choose to lead!

Inspire you to be inspiring

4v2 – Doing it to people? Fail; Doing it for people? Success

Where’s your tribe?

The obligation? Create a movement!

Beginning with BbWorld 2009

After 3 years of working on LMS Initiatives in the CSU, I decided it was time to start blogging. Many things have been achieved, many things have been learned and many things in the LMS environment continue to change.

So, we're going to officially start filling this blog (lmsblogging.blogger.com) with information from the BbWorld 2009 Conference being held in Washington DC, July 14-16 at the Gaylord Convention Center.

This place is very beautiful, and of course, very expensive. Thanks to the Hampton Inn across the street from the Gaylord, I'll start off by saving $60/night.

Unfortunately the registration desk closed at 6:3opm (Monday night) so it's up early tomorrow to get in line to get the badge and program 6:45am EDT, ouch! That's 3:45am California time! It's not that I MUST have my badge right away, it's just I got meetings up until the keynote and I don't want to stand in line at that time. I might miss something...or not...

Oh, and furthering my new beginnings and experiments, I'll be twittering too @KathyFern

So until tomorrow...