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Preparing A Social Media Policy For Service Pack 11, Wei Zakharov, Akesha Horton, Christopher Callahan
Preparing A Social Media Policy For Service Pack 11, Wei Zakharov, Akesha Horton, Christopher Callahan
Teaching and Learning Technologies Presentations
Blackboard Learn Service Pack 11 offers users the opportunity to integrate popular social media platforms, such as Facebook and Twitter, into academic content. Students will be able to create profiles and choose settings to open the information to classmates, institution students, or students around the world. This session explores the processes Purdue University enacted to determine how these new features intersect with current social media policies, and addresses the academic and administrative opportunities and challenges that must be considered prior to implementation.
Moving The Masses: Modifying Training To Meet Faculty Needs, Brett Creech
Moving The Masses: Modifying Training To Meet Faculty Needs, Brett Creech
Teaching and Learning Technologies Presentations
Purdue University’s faculty members have been using the same course management system, Blackboard Vista™, for more than 5 years. With the operational lifespan of Blackboard Vista coming to an end, Purdue implemented Blackboard Learn™ as its new course management system. Purdue’s Teaching and Learning Technologies team was faced with helping faculty not only move their existing content from Blackboard Vista to Blackboard Learn, but also to train them on the new system. In this session, learn how Purdue’s Educational Technologists assisted faculty with the transition by developing a variety of classroom-based training modules from demonstration style to hands-on and self-paced. …