Using Blackboard Scholar in Teaching and Learning

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Using Blackboard Scholar in Teaching and Learning!

• John MorrisonDirector of Blackboard Beyond
  User Communitiesjmorrison_at_blackboard.com

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• 3400 Institutions
• 1000 Developers
• MILLIONS of users

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Blackboard Beyond Initiative Mission

• Make the power of the Blackboard client network
  useful to faculty, students, and administrators
  in their everyday teaching, learning, and
  research.

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• Connect institutions, faculty, and students
  across campuses and disciplines
• Central platform, hosted by Blackboard,
  integrated with Blackboard products via Building
  Blocks PowerLinks
• Developed by Blackboard, shaped by the community
• Multi-year effort with multiple web properties

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Beyond Multi-Year Effort
Phase 1
Phase 2
Phase 3
Foundation
Expansion
Transformation
Student-centered Learning
Social Networking
Lifelong Learning
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Everything Starts Somewhere . . .
App
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Beyond Framework
B2
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Introducing . . .
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What the change looks like
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Scholar in Education

• Individual Tool
• Keep track of vetted and to read
• Subject resources
• Research tool
• Teaching Tool
• Learner Centered Tool

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Scholar as an Individual Tool

• Individual Tool
• Keep track of vetted and to read
• toread
• vetted
• Subject resources
• keeping track of topic or subject resources
• Research tool
• building expert tags on a topic
• building a network of experts on a topic
• pulling the 2 together

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Scholar as an Individual Tool

• Research tool
• building expert tags on a topic
• explore-gtorganize-gtmonitor-gtrefine
• E.g. image collections, image development, image
  research
• building a network of experts on a topic
• explore-gtorganize-gtmonitor-gtrefine
• E.g. experts in Images and Instructional
  Technology
• pulling the 2 together
• from Joe Tojek, Principal Learning Architect,
  Capella University

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Scholar as Instructor/Teaching Tool

• Teaching Tool
• Providing structure to explore/direct
• Pushing resources out to students
• Setting activities to engage with resources e.g

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Scholar as Instructor/Teaching Tool

• Setting activities to engage with resources
• E.g.
• find an image which represents a topic
• find resources which best summarize a topic
• find resources for and against an argument
• find a biased or misleading resource on a topic
• Questions which require examination of resources

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Scholar as a Learner Centered Tool

• Learner Centered Tool
• Activities which require students to build
  resources..

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A learner centered activity

• Getting students to evaluate, summarize and build
  resources
• You allocate topics. Students locate 5
  informative and high quality resources, to cover
  a topic
• Each saved as bookmark with appropriate Tags
• Each bookmark, students to summarize the resource
  and explain why it is high quality (Description
  field)
• Assessment tags cover resources, summary is
  comprehensive and clear, good quality
  justification
• Extension basis for a student paper

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Scholar in Education

• Individual Tool
• Keep track of vetted and to read
• Subject resources
• Research tool
• Teaching Tool
• Learner Centered Tool

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Scholar, next steps for you

• Scholar (http//www.scholar.com)
• Scholar Wiki (http//wiki.scholar.com) user
  help, technical support and teaching ideas
• Initial Accounts, Install on a test server,
  Install on production server
• You and your faculty already have
• Your resources (where they are)
• Your organization (your structure and topics)
• Benefits of the Scholar Resource network
• Ease of updating, ease of sharing with students
• The benefit of getting resources from others in
  your discipline
• The benefit of making students co-builders,
  active learners
• How can you direct your students to actively, yet
  critically, use resources, learn to build
  resources for themselves and learn to contribute
  to class and ultimately the communities resources?

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Scholar help from the community

• Work with others in your program
• Work with those in your discipline, across all
  institutions
• Webinars Introductory and
• Teaching Learning with Scholar
• Presentations and other Resources talk to me
• Getting Help, Contributing to Help
• http//wiki.scholar.com, beyond_at_blackboard.com

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Thank you

• http//www.scholar.com
• http//wiki.scholar.com
• (from Help in Scholar)
• beyond_at_blackboard.com
• John Morrison, jmorrison_at_blackboard.com
• Director of Blackboard Beyond User Communities
• Go forth and Scholar!