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evolution: leveraging the cloud for content management james mundie: jamie@psu.edujamie@psu.edu penn state world campus Slide 2 discussion points background challenges systems philosophy demo Slide 3 background Slide 4 key terms the cloud - hosted software meant to replace desktop or server software; hosted means on the internet quickbase - a cloud-based database application evolution - lightweight world campus learning design software for delivery-time server side content management Slide 5 us. Slide 6 Slide 7 Slide 8 them. Slide 9 Slide 10 Slide 11 its not about us. Slide 12 its about all of us. Slide 13 Slide 14 Slide 15 enormous GROWTH potential: for the foreseeable future Slide 16 growth translates into $$ ($$ means revenue for the colleges) Slide 17 challenges Slide 18 challenge: systems and processes must keep up with growth Slide 19 challenge: adult distance learners have unique needs time/space/funding constraints concerns over quality of experience institutional reputation a vast buffet of options Slide 20 other challenges challenge: our partners have varying definitions of quality and success challenge: our students are savvy consumers -- like it or not challenge: higher ed is a unique business in that students must earn the degree(s) they pay for Slide 21 philosophy Slide 22 why do it this way? LMS alone not meeting all of our needs (but still fills an important niche) software changes frequently, but we are not in the position to always be chasing the next shiny thing our portfolio spans the entire university our goal is to free designers to design, faculty to teach, and students to learn must keep costs down, but remain innovative Slide 23 philosophy: build a solid foundation Slide 24 philosophy: create scalable solutions Slide 25 philosophy: be flexible Slide 26 philosophy: know the market Slide 27 what is an online course? Slide 28 phase 1: startup (~2000 - 2005) Slide 29 Slide 30 phase 2: maturation (2005 - ~2009) Slide 31 phase 3: future Slide 32 Slide 33 Slide 34 Slide 35 Slide 36 Slide 37 demo 1: quickbase dashboard Slide 38 educational technologist dashboard example Slide 39 Slide 40 id dashboard example Slide 41 other possibilities q/a & copyright permissions dashboard - displays courses with pending permissions requests, courses submitted for q/a testing director of learning design - displays reports based on all courses dashboard for academic partners or other units not directly connected to learning design Slide 42 demo 2: courses and sections Slide 43 course section example Slide 44 course section example contd Slide 45 reporting example 1 Slide 46 reporting example 2 Slide 47 reporting example 3 Slide 48 course file manager example 1 Slide 49 course file manager example 2 Slide 50 course file manager example 3 Slide 51 next steps Slide 52 next steps: rally around standards Slide 53 next steps: reverse the information flow Slide 54 next steps: achieve reuse at a broader outreach level Slide 55 james mundie manager, educational technology psu world campus jamie@psu.edu twitter: @jmundie all images copyright jmundie, psuworldcampus, or aromano