#BbWorld16 – General Session: Innovating for the future: customer-centric solutions

Blackboard is thoughtfully innovating to solve your most pressing problems, and inspiring learners’ everywhere. Learn more about what Blackboard is doing for local organizations, and how your institution benefits.   And don’t miss Captain Mark Kelly deliver the closing keynote address, sharing his perspective on non-traditional learning and the use of analytics apply to education in space—and in everyday life.  This closing session will be full of inspirational moments and many exciting surprises. Sponsored by: IBM

Notes:

• Katie Blot, Senior Vice President, Global Strategy, Marketing and Business Line Management
• Blackboard Charitable Giving Program – Reimagining education through charitable giving Blackboard is proud to reimagine education through charitable giving. Blackboard’s Charitable Giving Committee, established in 2014, is one of many ways in which Blackboard gives back to the broader community.
• Blackboard Teacher of the Year
  • Congratulations to Carrie Romines Brookland Public Schools in Arkansas!
    

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Captain Mark Kelly – Mark Kelly is an American astronaut, retired United States Navy Captain, #1 New York Times best-selling author, and an experienced naval aviator and test pilot who flew combat missions during the Gulf War.

• The power of goals and plans and working hard.
• I want to be the first person to walk on Mars – didn’t make it there, but I made it to space 4 times!
• Plan to be naval aviator and then go into space.
• Practice persistence and not giving up.
• Life is about challenges and not giving up.
• Winston Churchill – “There is nothing more exciting then getting shot at, but missed.”
• Focusing on the stuff you can control and not worrying about the stuff outside of control.
• Timely and accurate communication is everything.

None of us is as dumb as all of us. Sometimes a team of people can make a bad decision… NASA is all about group thinking, but sometimes a bad decision can be made. Opinions need to be heard by all members of a team.

• Pay attention to the details, attempt to mitigate the risks.
• Put great teams of people together.
• Got a problem? We are going to figure this out together!
• The human spirit is incredible to strive to overcome and to fight hard, yet to not take yourself so seriously.

Be bold be courageous and be your best!

#BbWorld16 – Higher Education Rocket Sessions for Faculty and Instructional Designers

Join educators and leaders from higher education for fast paced fun! Rocket sessions are designed to generate excitement, share ideas, and inspire. Each Rocket session will be made up of five to seven consecutive, concise and fast-paced presentations consisting of no more than 20 slides auto-timed for 20 seconds per slide. Rocket session topics: · I’m Real! You’re Real! Social Presence in Online Learning · Mobile Technology for Students and Faculty: Put those Smartphones to Good Use! · Blackboard Bakery: Creating a Custom Recipe for Individual Departments · Engaging Faculty in Quality Assurance for Online Learning

Notes:

• I’m Real! You’re Real! Social Presence in Online Learning
  • Realness in Distant Education
    • Emergent Construct
      • Instructor, learner, technology, experience driven, continues to evolve, realness is social
    • Your Style Connects You
      • Computer mediated, Creates expectations, facilitator, mentor, immediacy and intimacy, trusted
    • Quality Trumps Quantity
      • Announcements, Emails, Lesson, Podcasts, Videos, Animations
• Mobile Technology for Students and Faculty: Put those Smartphones to Good Use
  • Mobile is ubiquitous
  • Intentional and specific use of mobile
  • Goal to increase engagement and time on task
  • Notetaking, calendar reminders, just in time content delivery, short video clip – communicate with faculty
  • Document with selfies and quick camera content shots
  • Polling
  • Mobile tools for self reflection
  • Focus on the final outcome and the experience first and then pick the technology solution
• Blackboard Bakery: Creating a Custom Recipe for Individual Departments
  • Creating a sense of community through a “Learn” model
    • LISTEN to the needs and wants of the instructor
    • ENVISION how the needs and wants can be achieved. How does a course built on “YES” look?
    • ADJUST to what can be done now. Use custom recipes to create a sense of community – video, banners, custom personalization
    • REVISE the recipe make sure everything is working properly.
    • NEGOTIATE and go beyond what needs fixed and think back to what you first envisioned.
• Engaging Faculty in Quality Assurance for Online Learning
  • Faculty Learning Communities
    • ePortolios, Best Practices for Faculty in Online Learning, Pedagogy and Tools for Teaching with Tablets and Online
  • DISCOVERe
    • FLC, Summer Institute, 250 faculty and 400 courses, approx 10,000 students
  • Boot Camp
    • Semester, designed for faculty new to online teaching, F2F and online experience, fully developed online module
  • QOLT Summer Institute (schedule) – eScholars group of faculty with at least 3 meetings with an ID, complete training, and go through a QOLT Quality Online Learning and Teaching instrument, receive a badge at the end:
    • Course Overview and Intro
    • Assessment and Evaluation of Student Learning
    • Instructional Materials and Resources
    • Student Interaction and Community
    • Facilitation and Instruction
    • Technology for Teaching and Learning
    • Learner Support and Resources
    • Accessibility and Universal Design
    • Course Summary and Wrap Up
    • Mobile Design Readiness