Detailed Conference Programme
See below the detailed programme for the conference of the Teaching & Learning Conference 2017, Milan.
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Currently he is Chief Executive Officer of Università Bocconi, President of MISB Bocconi (Mumbai International School of Business), Member of the Board of the Fondazione Accademia Teatro alla Scala and Proboviro of Confindustria. From 1985 to 1989 he held the position of CEO and Managing Director of Honeywell Information Systems Italia, operating in the Information […]
Eric Stoller is the student affairs and technology blogger for Inside Higher Ed and a higher education thought-leader, consultant and writer. Stoller frequently gives keynotes on how educators can use social media for learning and engagement and is a proponent of teaching students about digital identity development.
Introducing Blackboard Ally, Blackboard’s newest innovation that focusses on making digital course content more accessible. It helps institutions gain detailed insight into the accessibility of their course content, provides guidance to teachers on how to improve the accessibility of their content, and automatically provides students with a range of more accessible alternative formats.
In this presentation, we’ll share how we are endeavouring to overcome the perennial challenge of academic adoption: how are we persuading and supporting academics to venture away from the familiarity of their traditional practice and engage in the brave new world of Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) ? We’ll present our ethos and strategy for successfully […]
In this talk, we’ll discuss the changes we at KU Leuven have made to Blackboard’s user interface. we’ll talk about the different kinds of changes we made, why we made those changes and how me made them. The main features we’ll be talking about are: – ad hoc bug fixes – slight changes/improvements to Bb […]
In this session, we are presenting a new classroom design customised for the University of Roehampton-London, which Laureate has developed to increase students’ satisfaction and immersion in the Blackboard learning environment. The new design is in HTML5 and fully responsive, and allows students to engage in learning activities from multiple devices. The new design has […]
At Aarhus University the assessment and learning method of Peer review is well established and used. These two presentations will discuss two different paths of implementing Peer review activities based on learning culture and pedagogical goals. Free-Selection Double-Blinded Peer Review (20 minutes) Presenters: Pantelis Papadopoulos, Karen Louise Møller Peer review is a widely used instructional […]
This session will explain what a User Group is and the benefits to you of joining and participating in User Group membership. It will highlight some of the great activities User Groups are undertaking; outline how they are sharing practice, ideas and tips; ways to get ideas for improvement progressed. For those of you who […]
Responding to client feedback and ideas, Blackboard designed and launched Grades Journey to make assignment marking easier. Hear about the latest developments in Grades Journey, including our customer succes stories and tips for implementation.
The concept of this activity is to put the learners in the skin of “lawyers” of the subject taught. Indeed, on a closed question (yes / no), dividing the scientific community of the subject taught in this course, we will confront the students in order to propose arguments to support the yes or to support […]
The session aims to report on the experience of implementing e-assessment using Blackboard across all modules in the Department of Real Estate and Planning. The school-wide implementation was done as a pilot for the University of Reading and experiences in REP contributed significantly to the University policy on e-assessment. As Director of Studies for the […]
This session will discuss the warts ‘n’ all journey of using Blackboard Learn to support the assessment and feedback workflow. Despite some of the painful lessons over the past 6 years, Northampton is currently tracking 2% up on the HEI sector average for assessment and feedback in the NSS. Northampton also was found to be […]
The Blackboard MoCo (Mobile and Collaborate) User Group will be holding a meeting at the Blackboard TLC Milan, on Wednesday 22 March between 15.45-17.20 CET which equates to 14.45 to 16.20 GMT. This meeting will be in both Face to Face and Online format meaning a shared experience between those at the conference and user […]
RM Results will show how giving high quality and timely feedback to students as part of any formative or summative assessments will increase student satisfaction, providing a key contribution to growing student admissions.
When course design and engagement is informed by learning data, institutions have a greater impact on student retention and success. In this session, Blackboard’s analytics portfolio, including the new Blackboard Predict solution will be demonstrated, along with tangible tips on preparing an analytics strategy to enable student success.
This talk is a follow-up to last year’s presentation on the – then ongoing – development of a search engine for Blackboard. We’ll talk about the reasons why we decided to build a search enigne for Blackboard and about the goals and requirements we defined for this development. – Why was it developed? – Driven […]
The Blackboard MoCo (Mobile and Collaborate) User Group will be holding a meeting at the Blackboard TLC Milan, on Wednesday 22 March between 15.45-17.20 CET which equates to 14.45 to 16.20 GMT. This meeting will be in both Face to Face and Online format meaning a shared experience between those at the conference and user […]
Join the discussion to learn more about IBM capabilities in the Global Education Industry as well as Global Technology Services. You will hear from IBM global executives who will provide perspectives on current challenges and direction for transformation. We will cover topics including the new and exciting joint capabilities with Blackboard and how IBM and […]
Blackboard supports all deployments for Learn and can help clients plan and deploy a strategy suited to specific needs. In this session, we will share the preparation, timeline, and implementation factors to consider, should your institution desire to make the switch to SaaS. Clients interested in or considering a move to SaaS from either Self-Hosted […]
Join the Blackboard Company keynote session with Dr. William (Bill) Ballhaus Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President and Lee Blakemore, President, Blackboard International. Blackboard’s annual gathering of leading educators from Europe, Middle East and Africa to discuss the future of learning and opportunities for higher education. Bill is deeply committed to leveraging Blackboard’s innovative technologies […]
Join us for an immersive experience of the total Blackboard portfolio, seen from the academic and student perspective. You’ll see our latest innovations and powerful workflows, all designed to enhance the teaching and learning experience
Join us for an immersive experience of the total Blackboard portfolio, seen from the academic and student perspective. You’ll see our latest innovations and powerful workflows, all designed to enhance the teaching and learning experience
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At Avans University of Applied Sciences we have been using Blackboard since 2001. Every year our system was upgraded but we never performed a proper clean-up. As a result our system was filled with lots of orphaned courses and corrupted data which lead to instability. To make our Blackboard environment reliable again we decided to […]
Running successful academic adoption programmes requires executive support, clear strategies, tactical resources and organisational agility. These two presentations will discuss the implementation of strategic academic adoption programs down to very concrete tool customisations to meet specific requirements from the academics and students. Blackboard: From Post Office to Blended Learning, 20 min Presenters: Tobias Alsted Nielsen, […]
The acquisition of the Blackboard Community Engagement system in September 2013 provided Edge Hill University with an opportunity to improve the look and feel of Learning Edge (Blackboard) and to deliver personalised content for students and staff – using tabs, modules and secondary roles. Feedback received via our 6th Student eLearning Survey (2014-15) reassured us […]
Our mission is to build a global community where educators, learners and customers are at the center of what we do. The Blackboard Community is the largest, organized network of e-learning platform users in the world, and therefore we wanted to harness the power of the collective group by creating the Community Site, a central […]
Mobile access to the learning environment for staff and students is status quo today. In this session, Blackboard will share the latest developments and roadmap for its mobile solution, including examples of how institutions are using mobile to meet student expectations for their learning experience.
The UK University of Bedfordshire (22k+ students) has been a Blackboard client since 2002. In 2011, we decided to provide feedback on all text-based assignments electronically, using a streamlined form of feedback. We used GradeMark in Turnitin (basic building block) in Blackboard to mark assignments, keeping marks and feedback separate. In 2016, wanting to deliver […]
The presentation will describe the initial experiences of implementing a Smart Campus to improve the teaching and learning processes at a higher education institution in Turkey.
NTNU, the largest institution in Norway, have over the past year gone through an organisational transition at scale with merger of 4 institutions into one as well as moving from 4 learning platforms to one single one. These two presentations will shed light over the challenges and success from both an overall project implementation perspective […]
Technology is changing the way we do business, learn, teach, travel, interact and consume information. Join us in discussing Lecture Capture, the changes happening in the market today, and the future of education; what it will look like, how technology will help drive change, and what you can do today to prepare yourself and your […]
Blackboard continues to support all deployments for Learn. In this session, hear the most recent developments for Learn SaaS and Learn Ultra, as well as planning strategies to consider when your institution is ready to make the switch.
Since moving to Blackboard Learn in 2011 Tim Smale has been providing staff and students with a template within which to place all course content. The aim of this was to bring uniformity to all of the course layouts allowing students to navigate new courses with ease and predict content location. This template includes an […]
Engaging students in an online learning environment can be a challenging task! Formative assessment activities and feedback mechanisms form an integral part of all online distance learning courses developed through the Distance Learning Unit at Leeds Beckett University. Academic Instructional Designers from the Unit work closely with Course Teams to design, develop and deliver innovative […]
Our institution has been using VLEs since 1999 and we have run various training programmes over the years to improve academic adoption and introduce new processes such as online submission, lecture recording or anonymous marking. But how do we know what kind of training and support will be required to enhance the digital capabilities of […]
Regardless if you are taking on a new LMS or re-vitalise the existing one, no success comes without good operational strategy and clear incentives. NTNU have over the past year implemented Blackboard to meet the demands of 9 faculties, 4 campuses and 40,000 students. To achieve that they have focused on enabling academic adoption and […]
South West College(SWC) have developed a new student initiative called the “SWC Online Induction Programme”. In the programme students discover more about the College and their courses by using a range of technologies, creating an immersive learning experience. Containing 360° Virtual Tours of each campus, Game Based Course Inductions, Virtual World networking, and Blackboard Collaborate […]
Three courses offered by the School of Health and Social Care achieve high numbers of applications (Adult nursing, Mental Health Nursing and radiography). Candidates are invited to the University to undergo interviews and paper based diagnostic testing. These tests are marked by university staff. If a student fails the test then they are told at […]
The University of Northampton is currently experiencing unprecedented change; in 2018 the University will move to a new, purpose built campus in the centre of Northampton which has been funded via an HM Treasury backed bond of £231.5 million (plus £60 million funding from the UK Public Works Loan Board). Simultaneously, the University’s approach to […]
The University of Sheffield is now delivering 5% of it’s formal examinations via Blackboard Learn, using a robust and scalable process that is fully supported by institutional teams and complies with standard university policy. This, however, wasn’t always the case. From the early days of academic members of staff running ‘exams’ in WebCT with no […]
Blackboard Collaborate was procured by Ulster University in December 2015 and a Senior Implementation Consultant, Lloyd Stock, was assigned to support Ulster University to implement the software in a strategic way. The team from the Office for Digital Learning worked with the Blackboard Consultant to define goals for deployment, success measures and use cases to […]
Text to Speech technology improves learning outcomes and makes content accessible to all by allowing students to listen as they follow along with the highlighted text. This bimodal presentation of content supports Universal Design for Learning concepts, and is widely used in all types of learning institutions to improve comprehension and motivation. A popular tool […]
Blackboard supports all deployments for Learn and can help clients plan and deploy a strategy suited to specific needs. In this session, we will share the preparation, timeline, and implementation factors to consider, should your institution desire to make the switch to SaaS. Clients interested in or considering a move to SaaS from either Self-Hosted […]
Hear how Blackboard Collaborate has helped to measurably improve learner engagement. We’ll also share the latest developments and plans for the solution.
Blackboard and our clients are investing heavily in the secure management of data. In this session, Blackboard will provide an update on its approach to data privacy and security, including preparing for the General Data Protection Regulation.
This session will talk about how we are using Bb Analytics At Saudi Electronic University: – Introduction about Saudi Electronic University – Challenge : what are the challenges tاah the Analytics help us To overcome them – Solution: Blackboard Analytics System Intervention framework Evaluation results analysis Impact: what are the impact after give the result
For the past two years Introduction to Nutrition has been taught as part of the degree-general studies component at the Higher Colleges of Technology in the United Arab Emirates. From the onset a blended learning approach was taken. The goal of the course design was that classroom interaction would be enhanced by student self-study and […]
A new buzz about next generation digital learning environments seems to be taking hold in higher education as the transition to digital resources, tools and apps gains momentum and scale. The buzz has some technical elements: architecture, data, interoperability and standards. But it also has some strategy elements: How do curriculum, instruction, & IT come […]
uTalk – the language learning software company with the biggest range of languages in the world – is rolling out its new cross-platform app into colleges and universities with a system that makes it easy for all students to get started, not just those in language schools. Federated log in and Blackboard integration lead to […]
With so much focus on data usage in the student performance review, how can we better use data to review the quality of questions and content in the assessment process? This session will provide practice tips and strategies for use of data to QA questions, using a new integration tool in Blackboard Learn.
Surveying students at the end of a module is now an essential tool in the delivery of a quality learning experience to students, students who increasingly see themselves as consumers of the teaching we offer in our institutions. However, getting the opinions of students can be slow, labour intensive and costly. At the University of […]
The session will consist of 2 parts, the first being a Prezi presentation (which can be viewed at: http://prezi.com/2saiom6wun85/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy&rc=ex0share) This Prezi shares a case study that was conducted as part of my Psychology Internship at a private Higher Education Institution on using online marking as a formative teaching tool. Online assignment submission (through Blackboard) was […]
Blackboard Learn’s advanced assessment capabilities match or exceed those of many dedicated commercial online testing platforms. In this session, Paul Barney, Supervisor of Curriculum and Assessment at the Higher Colleges of Technology, and Azim Ahmed, Ed Tech Senior Project Manager, demonstrate how their institution uses Blackboard to reliably and securely test up to 4000 students […]
We promise the only thing we will undress is the wonderful world of happy blackboard users at the University of Derby. If you have seen any past presentation from Derby you will know that we have a wide range of pies and fingers. In this session we will show you how all of these are […]
The presentation is looking to showcase the common issues associated with online papers and tutorial materials. Annotate building block encourages students to complete readings in a collaborative discussion by adding the ability to annotate phrases, address specific people and reply to comments. Seemless inline view, robust document loading and further integration capabilities makes Annotate.co the […]
Prof. Leonardo Caporarello, Director of BETA (Bocconi Education and Teaching Alliance) at Bocconi University, will moderate a discussion about education technology and lifelong learning.
To stay at the forefront of technology based teaching and learning, innovation in the pedagogical approach is a necessity. This session will provide an overview of advanced strategies that learning technologists can apply to upskill their competency set and exceed in their roles.
This session will explore the ethical issues around the use of learning analytics and relate them to the use of learning analytics at the University of West London. These issues include consent, transparency, access and responsibility. The session will introduce the learning analytics policy developed and implemented at the University of West London in 2016. […]
To make the most effective use of an LMS, students and staff need easy access to a central repository of support information, resources, and tools. Keeping such a site updated and responsive to users’ needs can be a significant challenge. The Laureate International Universities in Europe, with 15+ campuses offering instruction in eight languages, were […]
This presentation will demonstrate the contribution of Blackboard in building more agile teaching methods for enhanced productivity. Additionally, it will discuss the benefits, methods, and special considerations when integrating Blackboard into courses that use more complex formats within visual design. Recent teaching and learning trends in higher education include the flipped classroom, the use of […]
The following session describes the projects and initiatives at the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, including E-Learning Strategy, the Instructional Design approach, and Best Practices about the use of different Blackboard solutions (Learn 9.1, Collaborate, Mobile Learn), all seamlessly integrated in the system landscape together with administrative services as well as Streaming Media. Blackboard Learn […]
Gamification is in danger of becoming a buzzword. This session looks at the approach with respect to education – the pedagogy behind it and examples of use. It then explores how this approach can be applied in Blackboard Learn and things to watch out for (especially on Mobile). During the session I will be exploring […]
Blackboard continues to support all deployments for Learn. In this session, we’ll review the latest innovations in Learn 9.1 for clients desiring to switch or maintain their instance on Blackboard’s Managed Hosting services.
In 2014 Ulster University commenced an initiative titled Digital Futures 2015-18 http://addl.ulster.ac.uk/digitalfutures The corporate plan required our department to deliver a Digital Learning Strategy underpinned by agreed pedagogic and business principles, and to provide prioritised recommendations for its implementation and evaluation, to include infrastructure development, academic development and governance. Digital Futures is strategically important as […]
The session will cover how the University of Edinburgh has configured and managed Learn to scale for large deployment. The University of Edinburgh has over 25k students, 5k staff, 22 schools that all require differing configurations and each have diverse requirements for how they use Blackboard Learn to deliver teaching, learning and assessment in their […]
University of Sharjah is considered one of the most comprehensive universities in the region. Blackboard has been successfully implemented as the main LMS in many aspects supporting teaching, learning and research in the University of Sharjah. Blackboard Organizations (Course Sites) are customized with Online Forms, Tests, Assignments and Surveys. Achievements and Notice boards are used […]
Initiated by student complaints about the fragmented information landscape Maastricht University decided to create a single portal in which all study related content will be available to her students. In this presentation I will describe the process, give a short demo of the resulting Student Portal and elaborate on the challenges met while integrating Blackboard […]
The University of Westminster recently re-designed and implemented and entirely new undergraduate curriculum as part of a project called Learning Futures. The Department of Modern Languages and Cultures used this opportunity to introduce learning portfolios across all core modules. The purpose of the learning portfolio is for the student to take responsibility for their own […]
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