eLearning Projects
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Part of the Washington Student Completion Initiative, the Open Course Library project is about designing 81 high enrollment, gatekeeper and pre-college courses for face-to-face, hybrid and/or online delivery, to improve course completion rates, lower textbook costs for students, provide new resources for faculty to use in their courses, and for our college system to fully engage the global open educational resources discussion. This last point is straight from a guiding principle in our Strategic Technology Plan to “cultivate the culture and practice of using and contributing to open educational resources.”
Open Licensing Policy
ANGEL to Canvas Transition
ANGEL is the learning management system (LMS) currently in use at a majority of the colleges in the CTC system. ANGEL is a commercial product that has been acquired by Blackboard, a large LMS provider. Blackboard has announced an end of life for ANGEL, necessitating a transition to Blackboard, Version 9.1 LMS or another solution. A request for proposals (RFP) went out in November of 2011 and an RFP committee was formed. The committee was composed of members who represent the college system community broadly including student services, IT, eLearning, librarians, faculty, as well as representatives from all six state universities, with help from faculty will evaluate the responses and select the best vendor. After evaluating the RFP responses, getting feedback from almost 1000 instructors, staff members, and students, and attending two days of live demonstration by finalists, the committee chose Instructure Canvas as the apparent successful replacement. Contract negotiations are currently underway with a goal of having a contract in place by June, thus allowing colleges up to two years for migration before the ANGEL contract will end.
Check back for more information on training and user support plans, coming soon.
Information on User Testing:
The scoring form used for formal faculty testing is available here (for review only).
There was also a that anyone who interested in providing feedback but but that didn ’t have time to work through the series of in depth tasks and scoring process could use. The informal feedback form is available here (again for review only).
RFP Process Documentation:
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