The Advancement of Knowledge:
A Blank Canvas for Global
Collaboration.
By Yaz El Hakim
Academic Technologist
Knowledge or Information
• How will knowledge be generated?
• How is knowledge published, accessed (and is
access to it equitable and inclusive)
‘are we finding and feeding the future geniuses of
our time’
• How is knowledge engaged with and added
to?
The importance of reading…
So students need to be reading but wouldn’t reading about research be preferred…
When researching is learning?
Connected Curriculum is an institution-wide initiative which aims to
ensure that all UCL students are able to learn through participating in
research and enquiry at all levels of their programme of study. It’s
about:
• Educating through dialogue and active, critical enquiry
• Creating an inclusive research and learning community
• Making connections across modules, programmes and beyond the
classroom
• Creating assessments that mirror ‘public engagement’ in research
• Equipping students to address interdisciplinary challenges
• Exploring critically the values and practices of global citizenship
• Engaging students as partners in their education, and as co-producers of
knowledge Improving the experiences of both students and staff
How could a VLE possibly help, isn’t it just a repository of slides and files?
1
EASE OF USE
Keep it simple silly…
Approx. 30% Increase in adoption
Average Incumbent
Champlain
College
(6 yrs) 48%
Michigan Tech
University
(8 yrs) 44%
University of
Mary Washington
Average new VLE
(10 Mo) 69%
(6 Mo) 80%
(6 Mo) 82%
(12 yrs) 55%
South Puget Sound
Community College
(3 yrs) 35%
Clover Park
Technical College
(4 yrs) 14%
(15 Mo) 99%
(18 Mo) 45%
Easy saves time and increases use
Bracken and Healy (2015)
2
PURPOSE OF USE
See a need, fill a need…
Do your students add to your VLE?
3
RELIABILITY
Big Data Helps
The more you use, the better you do!
Figure 1. Correlation between electronic resource usage and student grades
(Cox and Jantti, 2012)
NATIVE
CLOUD
OPEN
SOURCE
AMAZON
WEB SERVICES
Needed Capacity/Performance
On-demand Provisioning
Semester start
Unexpected usage
End of Semester
Most critical times for uptime/availability
Finals
Needed Capacity/Performance
Instructure Cloud
Automated Provisioning
Semester start
Unexpected usage
Midterms
Most critical times for uptime/availability
Finals
3
ADAPTABILITY
Canvas is a platform
that grows with you
What are the benefits of being open
and connecting
OPEN
API
LTI
INTEGRATION
193 APPS
IN 1 CLICK
www.eduappcenter.com
Open Architecture
Traditional
VLE
LTI
Talis, EDS and others are moving
4
By design, not bolted-on!
Solutions born in the 21st Century
Communities can sustain and develop