1. Resources for eLearning at University of Waterloo September 22, 2005 Prepared for discussion with Dr. Sheira Ministry of Higher Education, Government of Egypt Don

2. Overview Introductions History of Distance Learning Organizational Overview UW Approaches to eLearning Desire 2 Learn systems for eLearning Don

3. Organizational Overview Centralized support for computing environment – Information Systems and Technology [IST] 2002 – Office of Associate Vice President for Learning Resources and Innovation –Audio Visual and Classroom Services –Centre for Learning and Teaching Through Technology [LT3] –Distance and Continuing Education [DCE] –Teaching Resources Office [TRACE] Liwana

4. UW Approaches to eLearning T5: UW’s model for developing online content (Liwana – LT3) The New Classroom Series: Faculty development for eLearning (Mark – LT3) UW-ANGEL Course Environment [UW- ACE] (Andrea - IST) Distance Education and Convergence in the Online Environment (Cathy - DCE) Reusing Online materials (Kevin – LT3) Don or Liwana

5. UW-ACE: UW’s ANGEL Course Environment A bit of history … –UW known for computer technology in research, but … –Software in teaching mostly discipline-specific tools –2001-03 LT3, DCE, and IST built a learning system based on T5 –Good uptake, did not scale to campus Andrea

6. UW-ACE Next steps … –Central funding established for CMS –Chose software from ANGEL Learning Inc. (ALI) –Contracted ALI to build key features missing in ANGEL for T5, DCE: Team Generator Team Activity Generator Export-to-CD Andrea

7. UW-ACE Where are we now? –UW-ACE running in its 4 th term (just over one year) –First term: 220 courses and 12,000 students –Current term: 500 courses and over 19,000 students –Experiencing some growing pains! Andrea

8. UW-ACE: Support Who’s involved in central support? –LT3, IST, DCE, and Faculty computing staff Who does what –Hardware and software systems: IST –Training and documentation: IST –Campus faculty support: LT3 “Liaisons” and IST –DE faculty support: DCE and IST –Students: everyone Andrea

9. UW-ACE: Campus Infrastructure IST also runs the Student Admin (SA) systems Integration points: –Course registry (indirect, through SA data extract) –Student enrollment automation (indirect, through SA data extract) –UW-specific final marks export created for upload to SA Andrea

10. UW-ACE: Directions UW-ACE Steering Committee guides directions and decisions Some current issues: –Using UW-ACE for other than academic courses –New features and add-ons? –Growing for increasing needs, and system redundancy/availability Andrea