The Blackboard Experience at Westminster Kingsway College

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The Blackboard Experience at Westminster Kingsway
College

• Presented by Monica Or, Clare Mannall, Jeff
  Taylor

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In the beginning.
Blackboard
Whiteboard
Virtual Learning Environment
Smartboard
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Getting to grips with Blackboard

• Demo of how Blackboard was used
• Announcements
• Uploading lesson notes
• Clare to comment on implementation of this for
  lecturers

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Getting interactive with Blackboard

• Demo of how Blackboard is currently used for
  Travelodge
• Discussion Forums
• On line quizzes
• Use of Grade book
• On line marking
• Jeff to give students viewpoint

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The development of Blackboard

• Demo of developments for The Army so far
• The text box
• Wikis
• Blogs
• Monica to explain developments to move to total
  e-learning

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What IQER had to say

• The areas of Good Practice are
• Core theme 1 - Academic Standards
• The role of the VLE in the  delivering and
  submission of assessment
• The range and variety of assessment
• The robustness of our quality procedures
• The quality of feedback and the use of on-line
  feedback
• Core theme 2 - Quality of Learning Opportunities
• Extent of employer practitioner involvement in
  our programmes
• Career guidance and progression to further HE
  study
• Core Theme 3 Public Information
• Use of VLE in providing students with programme
  and module information

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The Future Blackboard and Facebook?