UNM Debby Knotts Director, New Media & Extended Learning Presentation thanks to many NMELers, UNM staff, faculty and students

Goals To reach and engage learner: distant and local students Provide safe, stable, robust, integrated resources for faculty & students Comply with FERPA & TEACH Act regulations

LMS / LCMS / VLE Learning Management System Learning Content Management System Virtual Learning Environment What do we have at UNM?

BB Vista 4.x (formerly WebCT) a little history… 1997 UNM’s first official online course 1998: first LMS 1999: 2 LMSs 2000: Online Faculty: “We want one !” 2000: SIS data synch 2003: Upgrading LMS & Banner integration discussion 2004: Decision to move forward with LMS upgrade & integration 2005: began Upgrade & integration 2006: went ‘live’ with SIS integrated LMS (automagic!)

UNM Web Course Definitions Web-enhanced course: course is traditional classroom face-to-face format with an online component (WebCT/Vista) Hybrid course: 50% of course is a traditional classroom format with 50% of course in an online / web-based format (WebCT/Vista) Online course: course is web-based (WebCT/Vista) with less than 25% of the course face-to-face Source: UNM Schedule Glossary, under Course Delivery Methods

UNM BB Vista Usage Data Fall 2008 reports at census Enrollment Enhanced: 41,404 Hybrid: 954 Online: 1,936 Unduplicated Enhanced: 19,794 Hybrid: 902 Online: 1,508

Sampling Online UNM Anderson Schools of Management: Accounting, Marketing, Management, Information Systems Arts & Sciences: American Studies, Astronomy, Communication & Journalism, English, Math, Natural Sciences, Philosophy, Psychology, Religion, Women Studies College of Education: Educational Leadership, Organizational Learning & Instructional Technology (+eLearning certificate program, Leadership & Innovation for the New Economy certificate - Knowledge management), Ed. Psychology, Library Sciences, Educational Counseling, Elementary Education & Early Childhood Development College of Fine Arts: Music, Theater College of Nursing: RN to BSN Completion, MS and PhD programs Provost/Academic: Public Administration School of Engineering: Civil Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science School of Medicine: Radiology Sciences

UNM’s Investment… Software – LMS Perpetual license Hardware Services Support

Tools & integrated services SIS: synch with enrollment data, live messaging for ‘real-time’ faculty request/creation of course shell. Standard tools: Weblinks, MyProgress, Syllabus, MyGrades, Assignment, Assessment, Announcement, Learning Objects, Mail, Discussion, Chat, Calendar, TrackingReport, Media Library, Selective Release Online course tools: webconferencing, media services (streaming & podcasting, wiki resources, course surveys (welcome, mid-course, semester end/ICES) BB Vista 8.x release new tool options: faculty online accessibility content creation training, SafeAssign, Scholar eReserves Quiz Creation tool: Respondus

UNM BB Vista Tool Popular Tools Most popular overall: Discussion Content pages Assessment For online courses Discussion Content Pages Mail

Support NMEL ITS Colleges Current Students Branches

Sampling of Pilots & Partnerships Accessibility Services Banner 8 Upgrade Team Provost & CON (Online IDEA course evaluation) Provost Office: HLC Self-Study Change Request OSET: advancing innovation in teaching Title V / English: ePortfolio iTunes U: UNM Counsel TEACH Act Guidelines Task Force UNM Second Life Group UNM Gaming in Education Group

Some additional areas exploring… Banner 8 Options: revisit push grades to Banner Course design portability models: SCORM, common cartridge Social networking: twitter, Facebook… Social Media Classroom: drupal based (Rheingold, Stanford/Berkley) IDEAL-NM LMS connection options to other systems Mobile technologies

Where does UNM go from here? Opportunities and challenges?