As part time facilitator for Blackboard roll outs for FESBE at LSBU I am
concerned about motivating academic staff to have sites set up for them
and sustainability issues when staff are reminded that once set up it is
their responsibility to manage the site! I offer assistance in some
content creation areas such as digitisation, OCR and advice on setting up
small image databases hosted by LIS, linked to Bb, or linking to suitable
external image databases such as to be offered via the SCRAN/JISC
initiative PIXUS.
We are moving to a position where Bb information sites for Courses will be
mandatory and incumbent on Course Directors to maintain these. From there
we can move to Course Unit sites being expected by students and made
routinely available with Unit Guides, and contact information as basic
requirements, building up to online assessments and asynchronous chat,
etc. Do other list members have a recipe for success?
Paul Sandford
Blackboard Facilitator
Faculty of Engineering, Science and the Built Environment
London South Bank University
Room T513 Tel: 020 7815 7271
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