Sasan SalariVP, New Technology ServicesHead, Vista Developers Networksalari@webct.com

Topics

• What is the WebCT PowerLinks Network?

• Who are the PowerLink Partners?

• How will WebCT designers, instructors, administrators benefit from these solutions?

• Where can more information be found?

• Select best-of-breed partner products and services

• Solutions that Complement WebCT's state-of-the-art e-learning systems.

• Interoperability that is based on well established standards, creating reusable solutions.

• A Network of committed vendors of campus technologies to high-quality course content and leading-edge learning applications.

The PowerLinks Network?

Why WebCT PowerLinks?

• Flexibility to pick and choose the technologies that extend the learning platform

• 3rd party tools woven in to the WebCT e-learning environment

• Ability for bi-directional content & data transferring with external systems

• Provide limitless capability to customize thee-learning experience

PowerLinks Pay Off

• Improved end-user satisfaction and flexibility– Seamless transition between systems

• Reduced time maintaining redundant systems:– Enrollment data– Login/passwords– Course Resources– Communication tools

• Lower TCO – Lower cost of integration– Lower cost of maintenance/upgrades

Technology Partners

Technology Partners and Solutions

PowerLinks for Technology

• Strategic relationships with worldwide hardware vendors

• Integrated offering with key enabling technologies

• Performance testing and configuration recommendations

• Ensuring that WebCT is secure, reliable and always available

Gartner Survey

According to Gartner Research:• 73% of institutions have selected a standard CMS1

– SIS integration at over 80% of institutions

Gartner Research predicts that by 2005:• Academic technology services will supplant ERP as the

next major new investment in higher education. 2

• More than 70% of students will be enrolled in courses that use e-learning2

1Gartner Research Note DF-18-8100, “Higher Education Institutions Should Select a Standard CMS,” 30 April 2003.1Gartner Research Note COM-19-9149, “Integration Indicates Higher-Education E-Learning Commitment,” 1 May 2003.2 Gartner Research Note COM 18-9597, “Higher Education IT Gets Academic,” 10 December 2002.

• Able to support real-time integration, streamlining the registration process for course enrollment

• Integration can provide seamless services across academic and administrative services including portal, ePortfolio, and registration.

• Experienced in supporting real-time interoperability with student information systems

• Providing certified solutions with commercial SIS vendors and custom integration with bespoke systems.

Why PowerLinks for Admins?

From WebCT To SIS• Grades (where supported)

To WebCT from SIS• Basic Course Data• Class List/Roster• Enrollment Changes

Integration Adaptors

Student System

NEEDSNEEDS

ADMINISTRATIVE ACADEMIC

Sample WebCT/SIS/Portal Integration

Academic Courses Content

Communities & Resources

Single Sign-on via Portal/Web Self Service Applications

Update - SIS Partner Adaptors

SIS WebCT/SIS Integration Availability

Single Sign-On (SSO)

Data

Synch

Grade Exchange

Datatel5k annual fee

• As of CE Inst. 4.0• Available Now

• WebAdvisor self-service application• Campus Cruiser

• Real-time Yes, to & from WebCT

PeopleSoftIntegration adaptor Included in SA maintenance

• As of CE Inst. 4.1• As of Vista 2.1• Available Now

• Via PSoft Portal or PSoft Learner Applications

• Batch Not supported by PSoft currently

SCTPerpetual license fees apply

• Banner, PLUS, Luminis• As of CE Inst. 4.2• As of Vista 3.0• Available now

• Campus Pipeline • Luminis Portal

• Real-time Yes, from WebCT to SCT.

Content Partners

Content Alliances Key Driver

“Academic e-Learning Must Confront Content Development Costs:

Higher education must find better, less costly ways to fill it’s e-learning conduits.”

Gartner, April 2003

Today’s content solutions

• 2700 e-packs in 50 disciplines• All e-Packs available for Vista• Growing availability of specialized content• Available through the Content Showcase, a

single channel built to support and empower WebCT’s customers

• Dedicated WebCT Support team, providing added resources to local administration and support

WebCT PowerLinks Network Content Partners

Online Teaching: Ready? Set! Go…

"WebCT e-Pack content, such as online quiz banks or video clips, engages students in the learning experience and adds a level of interactivity that is critical to their success in the course. I am able to incorporate innovative online content with almost no effort required on my part - it's all contained in the e-Pack and ready to use with WebCT.”

Prof. Janice StoudemireBusiness DepartmentMidlands Technical College

“WebCT e-Packs have allowed all the schools in our system to serve students whom we never would have seen in the face-to-face classroom. By enabling instructors to develop courses more quickly, use publisher resources more efficiently, and minimize course management demands, e-Packs have had a major impact on enrollment.”

Lance CrockerSouthern Maine Technical College

What customers are saying:

• 55% of campus customers use e-packs to jump start faculty adoption of WebCT

• Student usage of e-packs up 24% • e-Packs provide a launching point for new

faculty• Cuts time for an instructor to get online by

50 – 80%• Provides high quality resources instructors

cannot create themselves (games, simulations, ppt., self study tools)

• Leverages campus investment in WebCT

Resources for faculty

• Online catalog, fully searchable by discipline, author, media type

• Dedicated Support in Vancouver for faculty using e-packs, a welcome supplement to your on-campus resources

• “Key Features” supports instructors in selecting the right e-pack, based on easy visibility to 8 highly requested features

Key Features of e-Packs

Question database ~ Includes a Questions Database with 1-1000 questions, 1001-2500 questions, or 2500+ questions.  

Interactive media ~ Includes interactive exercises, simulations, or explanations that may include audio.

Flashcards / Glossary ~ Includes terminology flashcards or a glossary.

Video animations Includes animated elements that are not interactive and may include audio.  

Critical thinking activities Includes activities that challenge students to apply knowledge or to expand their understanding on their own, such as case studies, essays, and simulations.  

Instructor resources Includes resources, such as a teaching guide or a set of slides, that are intended for or only available to instructors.  Varied question types ~ Includes a Questions Database with three or more question types.  

eBook ~ Includes an electronic version of the complete textbook.

Compelling digital content: our message to our Partners

• solves a real academic challenge in a compelling way

• uses media and technology in a way that faculty and schools can’t easily create for themselves

• gives faculty the ability to “make it their own”—personalization or customization

• comes with support for faculty as they learn to customize, adopt their teaching to the new content and while they are managing courses that contain the content

• ease of use and ease of discoverability• provides a better value for students

Content Alliances: 2004 focus

• Build PowerLinks for key discipline specific applications

• Extend WebCT’s content story by adding to our e-pack resources: library content, campus developed content, and SCORM content

• Enhance and extend the role of Digital Content Leaders on WebCT campuses as advocates

• Build out “content solutions” in key verticals: business, medicine, law

e-Packs are coming of age

• PowerLinks delivered for fall with most popular learning applications:

• Partners working with partners – MyMathLab (PearsonEducation)– Personal Trainer (Thomson SouthWestern)– SimNet (McGraw Hill Higher )– ilrn (Thomson Higher Education)

• Major content companies partnering with WebCT and campus leaders to define and test new models for packaging and distributing content

Beyond e-packs:opportunities with new partners

• Revenue generation for campus customers – University College of the Cariboo: pin

protecting and selling an instructor created course in their bookstore this fall

• Faculty generated learning objects– MERLOT is now a WebCT partner!

Gartner Predicts

• By 2005, supplemental use of e-learning among faculty will rise from 28% to more than 50%.

• By 2005, more than 70% of students will be enrolled in courses that use e-learning.

• By 2005, the amount of digital material delivered per student will quadruple.

• Institutions must plan for geometric, rather than arithmetic, growth in e-learning system capacity.

"Higher Education E-Learning Grows Up”, 5-03, Gartner Research

LearningApplication Partners

Why WebCT PowerLink Application Partners?

• Complimentary technologies that extend the WebCT learning platform

• Best of Breed applications

• Technology fit – browser support, platform support, and user

• A focus on worldwide Higher Education

• Committed to WebCT customer base

Access to Tools Across Systems

• Recognizing the user as they move from one server to another.

• Using WebCT as the launch location for creating, managing and delivering online resources for teaching and learning.

• Leveraging the applications for what they were created to do.

Explore PowerLinks Partners

• Authoring Tools

• Tools for Instruction

• Content Management and Search Tools

Authoring Tools

• Allow offline creation of Content Modules, Learning Modules and other web content

• Provide an environment for collaboration, workflow and version control

• Create standards based content that can be used in WebCT or other delivery systems including mobile devices

Authoring Solutions FromPowerLink Partners

Solutions Partner CE Vista

Condense the size of your PowerPoint, create multi-media

3.6+ 1.0+

Offline Content Creation

Multi devise multi-media

4.0+ 2.0+

Collaborate offline to create assessable content/learning modules

4.0+ 2.0+

Quiz creation and management 3.6+ 2.1+

Dreamweaver & WebCT:HTML content

Web Sitesor Pages

(.html)

Dreamweaver & WebCT:Content and Learning Modules

Web Sitesor Pages

(.html)

WebCT CE Content Modules

(IMS CP, .zip)

WebCT VistaLearning Modules

(IMS CP, .zip)

Build content in Dreamweaver

Build Content Module, saves it as a single .zip file (IMS CP)

Import in WebCT Course(from institutional repository, library, or even your desktop)

Content Module inside WebCT Course

Content Module launched inside WebCT course

Free Dreamweaver Extension

Tools for Instruction

TurnitIn.com Plagiarism Protection

WIMBA Voice Enabling Tools

HorizonLive

Link Systems

Synchronous Collaboration

QuestionMark

Brownstone

Software Secure

Assessment Authoring and Delivery Engine and secure testing environment

TegritySilicon Chalk

eInstruction

Increase Classroom Interactivity

Content Applications

Reading Lists Collect resources with data that describes the item and its pedagogical purpose. (Sentient, Talislist)

Object Repositories

Systems that manage structured assets, with metadata to facilitate search and retrieval. (Harvest Road, The Learning Edge, Concord)

Search Tools Federated Search gateways offer searching of identified repositories offering ONE search term, interface and ONE merged result list. (Endeavor Encompass, MetaLib,

Portfolio An extended, dynamic CV, establishing links to an online database, which contains personal and professional achievements, team results, references and all relevant evidence of competence obtained in the course of work and learning. (Nuventive, Taskstream, CollegeLive Text)

Example Library Application

Faculty Create Reading Lists

• Simple interface that empowers faculty to search and collect resources

• Meta-data is stored in Sentient, Content remains in the repository

Faculty Can Upload Resources

• Use the WebCT File Manager to store lecture notes, presentations or papers

• Reading Lists can include faculty, student or publisher materials

• Faculty and librarians can both contribute to the Reading Lists

Reading Lists For Disciplines, Courses or Topics

• Students may be given access to one or many Reading Lists for their course/module.

WebCT & Sentient Provide Context for Resource Usage

• Designers provide context on the educational purpose

Student is Recognized and Provided Access Options

• Seamless access to the library services and resources

• Linking to check availability in their library OPAC or other local libraries

Seamless Integration to the Library Catalogue

The Reading List Can Link to a Learning Object in MERLOT

Example Portfolio

Areas of Integration

File Manager / File Sharing

From within iWebfolio, students could browse their ‘my files’ folder in Vista and select documents to be pulled into their permanent portfolio in iWebfolio.

Areas of Integration

Availability

• When is integration available – May 2004

• How to get a Demo – Contact Nuventive at 877-968-0156 or visit their web site www.nuventive.com

Example Content System

WebCT PowerLink 1.0

• Browse or Search Hive Repository within WebCT

• Make Links to Latest or Specific Versions

• Make Links to Original, HTML… formats

• Proxy Tool– Single Sign On– Application Bridging

Hive PowerLink – Select Tool

Choose Hive PowerLink from “More Tools”

Enter a Title then press

“Locate Content in Hive”

Hive PowerLink – Browse or Search

Seamless login to Hive, showing Browse and

Search screen

Hive PowerLink – Select “Link”

View, see metadata, then select your item

Hive PowerLink – Choose Link options

Specify latest or specific version; original or html format, then

“Send Link to Vista”

Hive PowerLink – Preview in WebCT

Content served to any course sections, learning modules; maintained in

quality controlled repository.

More Information?

http://www.harvestroad.com/

+61 8 9338 3000

• Authoring• Content Management• Portfolio• Library Resources• Assessment• Classroom Tools• Technology

Application Partners

Partner Solution Focus in 2004

• Digital Repositories and Portfolios• Math, science and writing tools

– Streamline processes for large courses

• Authoring Tools – Content creation tools for novice users

• Reporting Applications– Deliver decision making data

• PDA/Offline Applications– Extending the learning experience

Visit: www.webct.com/powerlinks

http://www.webct.com/powerlinks

Application PowerLinks Available NOW

Prepare resource lists CE Vista

Learning Content packager and management systems

CE

CE

Vista

Enhance server access speed

Ensure high availability

CE

CE

Vista

Add results from quizzes taken outside of WebCT

CE SCORM

Offline authoring of quizzes and games

Use Voice boards and audio discussions

CE Vista

Application sharing, Collaborate CECE

Offline authoring of WebCT

content and SCORM objects

CE

CE

Vista

Vista

PowerLinks Coming Soon

Authenticate into a WebCT course CE

Vista

Manage writing assignments and verify authenticity

Vista

Include feedback from class polls into the grade book

CE

CE

Vista

Add results from quizzes taken outside of WebCT

CE

Add library resources into a course Vista

Application sharing, Collaborate CE

CE

Vista

Vista

ePortfolio for accreditation standards Vista

Enhanced Content Management Vista

Recommend a PowerLink

• Who can join the PowerLink Network?– Any commercial vendor

demonstrating a technology and market fit

• How Partners Join the Network?– Complete the partner inquiry form

at: www.webct.com/partners– Recommended by a WebCT

Customer

Reasons to Use PowerLink Partners

• Best of Breed Applications

• Power Links are registered with WebCT Customer Support

• Power Links work with– WebCT Campus Edition 4.1– WebCT Vista 2.1+

Thank You

Questions?

salari@webct.com