Our college Blackboard Learning is formerly known as Blackboard Academic Suite. There are three components of our College Blackboard:
- e-portal,
- course site (LMS),
- Content Collection
The blackboard e-learning provides hands on experience as a student like
- read the announcements;
- download the course documents;
- join an online discussion;
- submit an assignment;
- view grade and comments made by the instructor
The Blackboard e-learning also provides hands on experience as an instructor in
- upload course documents;
- post announcements;
- set up a discussion board;
- set up an assignment submission mechanism;
- make his/her course available/unavailable
There are good reasons of putting up course documents are user authenticated and the document is digital and is on the web. It also helps design and review the learning activities.
As most of the instructors are only assigned the role of lecturers and tutors, there is a restriction of their access right. Due to the heavy administration and teaching workload, teachers seldom pay extra time and effort in understanding the infrastructure and rules of our college’ blackboard system. Thus, the intended learning outcome can only achieved for functions like assessing student profiles by using the Class List function, notice announcements, collect student assignments via the Bb assignment tool but not the other functions like content/lecture materials dissemination, setting up and using the discussion board.
However, the top management like principals and head of divisions should take the lead role of using blackboard for communication and discussion purpose. They only use e-mails to announce message and communicate with staff and serves only one-way communication and not two-way communication.
Hi Maria,
回覆刪除Thanks for your sharing. About the article, you mentioned that the change from traditional to new advanced media makes it more convenient, but relatively decrease the human-to-human communication. Do you think this innovation is a successful case, or it creates more concerns?
by Ricky Kwoonkay Chan
The change is driven by administrative measures, which could be effective, but most likely, the members will not be very much involved in the change.
回覆刪除I think we can improve the initiative of the members to opt in the change by providing more sharing on successful stories. Moreover, awards could be given for those who are innovative or improved through students' feedbacks.
The introduction of Blackboard seems to be considered the platform to streamline the workflow and reduce papers. Rather, the purposes and functionality of Blackboard may not be fully achieved. So there's much room for improvement.
回覆刪除I think leadership as well as teacher commitment play a key role in the success of Blackboard. Like, top management should set a good example to teachers by really using the system while teachers have to learn how to master the system.