school_reports

Flu proofing prep, but not huge disruptions to classes. Duke Digital Initiative is in 5th year - program for experimentation of new technologies. Link teaching and learning space support - esp. "Faculty Fellows" program where a group of faculty worked together on teaching in that space. Experiments with social networking and communications tools - WordPress MU piloting for teaching. E-learning Roadmap Group - to define needs for e-learning platform, aka decide whether to keep Blackboard. Consulting and training for faculty.
 * Duke University**

Flu proofing, course continuity (what would happen if campus shut down?) They are setting up Elluminate sessions for each course on campus, so each faculty could find a synchronous session. LMS strategy and planning, moving to Moodle (calling it Wolfware), putting every tool on campus through a central entry point. Transitioning over the next year, their contract runs out in 2011. IDEA grants - awards for creating distance ed awards, and exploratory grants. Looking at WordPress and VoiceThread. Lots of work in virtual worlds, virtual online learning and teaching (VOLT). Classroom capture with MediaSite, also piloting Echo 360. Their faculty and students want this. Large course redesign to increase course pass rates, they are targeting courses by working with the registrar to see which courses need help.
 * NCSU**

Lilly Conference 2010, Feb 5-7, proposals due 11/9 Blackboard - upgrade to Bb 8, sp5 hotfix 2. Integrated learning system with transaction system, also integrated Elluminate and faculty can self-provision rooms. Doing a pilot with StarFish for advising appointments and integrates with Bb gradebook. Have done pilots with Moodle in public health and education, also going to pilot D2L next year. Committee looking at guidelines for using Web 2.0 tools
 * UNC-Greensboro**

Upgraded to Bb 8. Finished Sakai evaluation. Testing Elluminate, VoiceThread, Twitter. Doing large course redesigns. Classroom projects - pilots for virtual computer labs, converting videoconf. rooms to HD videoconferencing. Taking out DVD players from rooms, will stream from central location. Games for Learning. Lecture capture, using PanOpto and Echo 360.
 * UNC-Chapel Hill**

Clients are public officials in NC (court personnel, etc.) They are required to have 2-hour training on ethics, and School needs to deploy to the whole state. They had done this f2f in the past, but working on virtual sessions, e-learning modules. Notes that instructional design is key to focus on, focusing on learning gains.
 * UNC-CH School of Government**

Blackboard focus, upgraded to 8.0, contract up in 2011. Bb ASP, and support outsourced. Looking at Moodle, thinking about a Moodle pilot. Working with NCSU's virtual computing lab, running a few classes using DCL (?) Piloting Blackboard e-portfolio tool for student learning assessment, also use FolioTech (sp?) in one school for portfolios Flu proofing efforts as well. Use MediaSite in Law School, want to expand that.
 * NC Central University**

Report from Multimedia Center staff member. Focusing on using 3D applications to create animations for faculty, moving away from 2D. Trying to create portable content. Using Maia to create 3D environments, some staff working on SecondLife. Use Blackboard 8.0, Moodle, Sakai, Centra. Using Ning, WordPress and Twitter. They do have continuity of instruction plans that faculty use.
 * East Carolina University**

Blackboard instance is hosted by UNC-G, but do their own local support. Using Elluminate. Doing some space redesign on campus. Moving toward single sign-on. Moving into Facebook and Twitter for their unit. Ning - North Carolina SOTL network which they set up.
 * NC A&T**

Social media guidelines - web 2.0, copyright, FERPA. Social networking for academia (and sustaining) Moving to open source LMS - what are the resources e-textbooks/e-readers (contact Peter Watson, NCSU) Large course redesign - how to get faculty to participate, what exactly is redesigned Streaming media from central location - legal issues? Mobile integration for campus Podcasts and who is doing that at different schools iTunes U on campus Elluminate use - seems to be widespread E-portfolio tools Online course development REALLY flu-proofing - getting down and dirty to make sure faculty really know how to USE the tools.
 * Brainstorms**