Learning Ecosystems Integrations
for improving student experience
Barish Golland - Learning Ecosystems Support and Solutions Manager - Sauder School of Business, UBC
barish.golland@sauder.ubc.ca
Twitter: @BarishGolland
COMM101 - Business Fundamentals
700 student course
6 sections, 4 instructors, 7 TAs
Two Components to Student Engagement:
1. Amount of time and effort students put into their studies + other activities leading to experiences and outcomes that constitute student success.
2. The ways the institution allocates resources and organizes learning opportunities and services to induce students to participate and benefit from such activities.
Elizabeth F. Barkley, Student Engagement Techniques: A Handbook for College Faculty, 2010
COMM101 Instructors
BasicLTI Integration
Enrollments from Blackboard LMS get pushed into WordPress Subscriber-only Blog
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Student
Information System
LMS (UBC Connect)
WordPress integration
(UBC Blogs)
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WordPress Site embed in Connect LMS
WordPress Master Blog in separate browser tab
Multi-device access on the go
Course Content pushed to email
Learning Analytics
- LMS generated analytics
- WordPress Analytics (xAPI)
- Email analytics (3rd party app)
xAPI
(Experience API or Tin Can API)
"an e-learning software specification that allows learning content and learning systems to speak to each other in a manner that records and tracks all type of learning experiences." - Wikipedia
xAPI Learning Analytics of
Student Blog Views (Learning Record Store Data Visualization)
xAPI Statements (actor + verb + object)
Email Analytics (Open, click rate)