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Teaching and Learning Technologies: Focus on Impact

Harvard IT Summit 2015

June 4, 2015

•  Provide core teaching and learning technologies to all Schools

•  Support pedagogical innova>on and research on learning

•  Establish strong Harvard community based on actual partnerships with faculty and with academic support professionals

•  Cul>vate open source community around component development that complements core technologies

•  Deliver high-‐quality program on >me, on budget, in scope

Strategic Objec6ves Guiding Principles Key Performance Indicators

•  Communicate and socialize program across the University

•  Balance need to move quickly with thoughMul planning

•  Seek early and con>nuous faculty input from across the Schools

•  Transi>on program to ongoing services with sustained community and sustained vision

•  Embrace fluidity

•  Full-‐>me staff focus is the rule; divided >me is the excep>on

•  University migra>on from previous plaMorm(s) to core technologies

•  Usable data from teaching and learning ac>vi>es available for research

•  Meaningful engagement with faculty / teaching teams and with academic support professionals around needs

•  Harvard-‐specific technology enhancements and applica>ons generated by open source community

•  Program delivered on >me and on budget

Provide a con7nually evolving set of faculty-‐friendly, student-‐focused technologies that support teaching and learning across all Harvard schools, facilitate pedagogical innova7on, and contribute to educa7onal research.

The Vision

The Program

Meet our Team!

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The Vision

Provide a con7nually evolving set of faculty-‐friendly, student-‐

focused technologies that support teaching and learning across

all Harvard schools, facilitate pedagogical innova7on, and

contribute to educa7onal research.

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The Plan

Provide core teaching and learning technologies to all Schools

Support pedagogical innova>on and research on learning

Establish strong Harvard community based on partnerships with faculty and academic support professionals

Cul>vate open source community around component development that complements core technologies

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The Plan





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The Plan





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The Plan





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Provide core teaching and learning technologies to all schools

Canvas Migra6on: iSites Schools

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Spring 2015 Courses (Actual)

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Fall 2015 Courses (Projected)



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Fall 2015 Courses (Projected)

Fall 2016 Courses (Required)

Canvas Migra6on: Non iSites Schools

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Top Canvas Features

1.  Clean user interface

2.  Gradebook and SpeedGrader

3.  Integra>ons across Canvas tools

4.  Modules for organizing learning content

5.  Communica>on stream

6.  Extensibility through open standards

7.  Mobile app

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“We LOVE Canvas. It really is such a HUGE step forward.”

-- Eric Mazur Balkanski Professor of Physics and Applied Physics

Migra6on Evalua6on

• What: Survey

• Who: Faculty and students

• When: Toward end of each term

• Why: – Hear from community about successes / challenges

– Inform our work of suppor>ng the migra>on

– Educate community about Canvas func>onality

– Track trends across semesters

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TLT / School Partnership

TLT School Success!

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Harvard’s PlaUorm Strategy

Offer a single plaMorm for all teaching and learning needs

Provide mul>ple plaMorms – with unified user experience, access to data, extensibility and interoperability – to support Harvard’s residen>al and online

teaching and learning needs

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Types of Learning Experiences

Degree Programs

Execu>ve Educa>on

Other Learning

Experiences MOOCs

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Degree Programs

Execu>ve Educa>on

Other Learning

Experiences MOOCs

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Degree Programs

Execu>ve Educa>on

Other Learning

Experiences MOOCs

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Degree Programs

Execu>ve Educa>on

Other Learning

Experiences MOOCs

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Pilot: Canvas Catalog

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Support pedagogical innova6on and research on learning

Development Roadmap

Types of Development

1.  Integra>ons with Harvard systems

2.  Course administra>on tools

3.  Teaching and learning tools

4.  Development related to enabling extrac>on of data for educa>onal research

Areas for Considera6on

ü User benefit ü Technical complexity

ü Viability of alterna>ves ü Governance-‐driven priori>es ü “Project management triangle”

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Development Roadmap

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Launched In Process Up Next ü  Manage people tool

enhancements ü  A/B tes>ng tool (pilot) ü  “AskUp” tool (pilot) ü  Shopping period

enhancements ü  Harvard viewable courses

permission seing ü  ID photos ü  Credit status based

sec>ons ü  Managing sec>ons ü  Course site crea>on and

templa>ng ü  Student loca>ons ü  Lecture video display ü  Library reserves list display

q  Bulk course site crea>on q  Adjustments to the self-‐

service course site crea>on wizard

q Mailing lists for courses q  Shopping adjustments

for Fall

q  Display of class list email addresses to teaching staff

q  Clarifica>on of Canvas help op>ons

Pilot: Bringing HarvardX Content into Canvas Course Sites

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Pilot: A / B Tes6ng Tool

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Student Developer Program

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Dashboard Views of Course Ac6vity

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aggregate

individual student

Extract Raw Data to Support Educa6on Research

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VPAL Research

Establish community with faculty and academic support professionals

Teaching and Learning Community

Why?

•  More than just a technology migra>on

•  Need to meet teaching, learning, research needs

•  Engage with faculty … and those who support faculty

How?

•  TLT / Schools •  Canvas Governance Group •  Coffee & Canvas •  Par>cipate in exis>ng convenings (e.g., HILT’s TLC)

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Cul6vate open source community around component development

Developer Community

Why? •  History of silos – working hard, not smart •  Inefficiencies of process and product •  TLT can’t do it alone – now we don’t have to How? •  Gather academic developers from Harvard schools and organiza>ons

–  Open bi-‐weekly sprint demos –  Monthly developer convenings –  Quarterly demo days

–  Summer hackathons

•  Work with schools outside Harvard based on problem to solve

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Wrapping Up

Update: Standard iSite Migra6on

standardisites.harvard.edu

Post-‐Program Plans

AcTS 2.0

TBD

AcTS 1.0

TLT

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Other IT Summit Sessions of Interest

12:30 Brown Bag Seminar

q “Driving with Purpose: Logic Modeling the Standard iSites Migra>on” (HUIT)

1:10 concurrent session 2

q “Enabling Job-‐Embedded Professional Development through Learning Communi>es with Technology” (HGSE)

q “Canvas and the Case Method: Canvas at HBS” (HBS)

q “Academic Technology Support at DCE” (DCE)

2:25 concurrent session 3 q “Making the Case for UX” (HUIT)

q “Introducing the New My.Harvard Student Informa>on System” (HUIT)

q “Digital Video @ Harvard” (HUIT)

q “Crea>ng Digital Learning Units for Interna>onal Policymakers” (HKS)

q “HBX, an 18-‐Month Adventure into the Cloud” (HBX)

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Follow Our Progress

TLT.harvard.edu

Questions? Comments? Thank you!

Kristin Sullivan, Program Director [email protected]

Appendix

Clean Interface

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1.  Course Navigation 2.  Global Navigation

3.  Breadcrumb Navigation 4.  Content Area

5.  Sidebar 6.  Help Corner

Gradebook and SpeedGrader

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Integra6ons across Tools

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Same data, different lenses

Gradebook

Calendar Syllabus

Assignments

Modules

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Communica6on Stream

1.  Global Naviga>on 2.  Sidebar 3.  Global Stream

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Extensibility

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Mobile

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