Building an e-learning environment
Project: Customer required a complete e-learning transformation
Starting point:
- Learning Management System (LMS) Moodle
- LMS Moodle seen as cumbersome and unintuitive with low usage rates
- Own custom built software facilitating LMS type features
- Basic e-learning type content
Wanted to modernize courses to meet and exceed the demands of their students (i.e. provide structured quality multimedia content online)
Chosen LMS provider after the tendering process: https://www.canvaslms.com/
Results of change management and training:
Autumn 2017 (LMS use voluntary): 64% of courses were in the LMS
Spring 2018 (LMS use voluntary): 75% of courses were in the LMS
Goal autumn 2018 (LMS use mandatory): 100% in the LMS
- Comprehensive training for all faculty that will lead to better quality, structuring, and uniformity
- Monitoring and reporting with business analytics software (Power BI) with custom built reporting mechanisms
- Use of rubrics and exploring the use of outcomes functions for outcomes-based education
- Advanced in-house built multimedia e-learning content and class recording (studio and video conferencing facilities built):
- Webcam recordings
- Screen capture
- Screen capture with talking head
- Talking head
- Animation assisted talking head
- Khan-style videos
- Drawing recording
- Class recording
- Online video conference recording and interactivity
- Building of collaborative video conferencing facilities between two campuses