Distribution: All information technologies & resources informationinformation technologies technologies & &resources resources University of Central Florida Volume 16, No. 2 • May 2012 CDL Presents Coming Soon: Inaugural Chuck D. New Webcourses@UCF Platform Dziuban Award he Center for Distributed Learning y now, we hope you have heard that UCF will be moving to a new learning management (CDL) has awarded the inaugural Chuck system (or LMS) to run our Webcourses@UCF platform. Our current system, a Blackboard TD. Dziuban Award for Excellence in Bproduct called Vista, is being discontinued by the company at the end of 2012. We intend to Online Teaching to Amanda Groff from the use this required transition as an opportunity to assess our future learning management system Anthropology Department. The presentation requirements and select a learning management system that best meets the long-term needs of of the award was made during the Showcase our faculty and students. event that concluded the spring section of CDL’s flagship faculty development program Although many factors will be considered as part of the decision-making process—including data for online and blended teaching (IDL6543). As security measures, administrative protocols and client support—the most important criterion will part of her award, Groff received a certificate, be faculty input. Please let us know what you think throughout the migration process. an iPad, and a complimentary registration to this year’s Sloan-C International Conference on Three learning management systems are under consideration: Online Learning. • Blackboard Learn 9 (http://www.blackboard.com/Platforms/Learn/Overview.aspx) • Desire2Learn (http://www.desire2learn.com/about/discover) A peer committee of award-winning online • Canvas, from a company named Instructure (http://www.instructure.com) faculty chaired by Alisha Janowsky selected the winner. The committee also recognized one We chose to evaluate these platforms based on our knowledge of the marketplace, numerous Honorable Mention: Debbie Has-Vaughn from reference conversations with other institutions, and our own sense about the direction of online the Department of Educational and Human learning. Sciences. All of these LMS vendors visited UCF in April and provided two-hour demonstrations of their Named after UCF’s Chuck Dziuban, the award platforms, with an additional hour set aside for questions. All faculty members were invited recognizes an outstanding UCF faculty member and encouraged to attend these open sessions. For those who were unable to attend the live who has taught at least one fully online or sessions, we recorded and published these presentations on our migration website. An online blended course within the previous academic form is available for your feedback at: http://teach.ucf.edu/resources/webcourses-migration/ year. Dziuban is an internationally acclaimed send-feedback. leader in online learning and, among many other recognitions, was named UCF’s first Synopsis of the migration timeline: Pegasus Professor and is currently a Professor Spring 2012 Emeritus. • Four faculty members piloted their courses in Learn 9. During the spring term, Blackboard released an update, and the summer pilots will use the new version of Learn 9 (Service Pack 8). MORE INFO ABOUT THE AWARD, ELIGIBILITY • Faculty members for the summer pilots were identified and had their courses migrated for the AND WINNERS: http://award.online.ucf.edu summer pilots. • Town hall meetings were conducted to demo the three learning management systems and answer questions. Summer 2012 • A limited number of faculty members will pilot courses in all three systems. • The Center for Distributed Learning will capture faculty and student comments about each system. • CDL will test each system’s administrative processes and, working with Computer Services & Telecommunications, ensure that they comply with security requirements and integrate with our enterprise student information system. • A final selection of the new LMS will be made by mid-summer and an announcement will be sent to the UCF community. Tom Cavanagh congratulates the inaugural Chuck D. Dziuban Award winner, Amanda Groff. — Continued page 2 — 1 Webcourses@UCF (continued) • Integrations between the new LMS and our enterprise student information systems will be completed. • Faculty will be identified for fall pilots and have their courses migrated. If you are interested in participating in the fall pilot, please send a message to [email protected]. Fall 2012 • The fall pilot will be a soft rollout of the new LMS including integration with PeopleSoft. This pilot will be a final check to ensure everything is running smoothly. Excellence in • We will start migration of all courses and give priority to the spring 2013 courses. Librarianship Award • We plan to complete migration of all courses in early 2013. Every year, at UCF’s Founders’ Day Of course, the migration plan can change as conditions evolve, and we promise to communicate Honors Convocation, awards are given updates as they occur. To keep track of the migration process, please visit our website at http:// for excellence in teaching, research and teach.ucf.edu/migration, where you will find an overview, timeline, LMS reviews and more. advising. Since 1984, an award for Excellence in Librarianship has also been given. How to Get Ready for Migration The “What Can I Do?” page on the migration website provides suggestions to prepare your course Excellence in librarianship is for migration and a list of potential problem areas. In addition, CDL will provide a comprehensive demonstrated by evidence of innovative series of training sessions to smooth your transition along with self-help materials. We are already contributions to UCF or the library working on a comparison worksheet to identify similarities, differences and new tools in each LMS. field, or evidence of extra effort to In addition, we will partner with the Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning to ensure the widest improve library services, collections, etc. possible distribution of information about how to use the new system. This year’s award was Identifying Courses to be Migrated presented on April 4, You may have several versions of your courses on the current Webcourses@UCF system. You don’t 2012 to Tim Bottorff, need to migrate every course and every version on Webcourses@UCF. Therefore, CDL will depend head librarian at the on you to identify the specific course(s) to be migrated. If you are not sure whether you will teach a Universal Orlando course again, please migrate it to avoid problems in the future. Soon, a form will be made available Foundation Library to identify the courses you wish to migrate. at Rosen College. CDL will provide some clean-up during the migration of your courses. However, there will be many Bottorff has been with the Universal decisions only you can make based on the tools available in the new systems. To help you make Orlando Foundation Library at Rosen these decisions, CDL will provide migration classes, which will begin toward the end of the summer. College since its inception in 2004 — Each session will include an overview of the new system, followed by an opportunity for individual first as reference librarian and then as consultations with an instructional designer and/or online support staff. Again, watch the migration head librarian from mid-2007 to present. website for the announcement of these classes. Bottorff oversees all functions of the Rosen College library, including administration, This is an exciting opportunity for UCF. Nearly one third of all the university’s student credit hours reference, library instruction, collection are generated online, and many more courses use the Webcourses@UCF platform to enhance face- development, website design, to-face instruction. This is your chance to have a voice in the selection of UCF’s next-generation marketing, circulation and more. online learning environment. Please add your voice to this process and help select the next LMS. Bottorff holds a master of library and If you have questions or comments, please feel free to contact your instructional designer or send information science (MLIS) from the a message to [email protected]. University of Pittsburgh and a bachelor of arts in American studies from Wartburg College. 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