Abstract

• Blackboard Learn SaaS was selected as the next university-wide Learning Management System (LMS) for the academic year 2017-18 and after. Panopto is to serve the video recording and broadcasting needs of teachers and students campus-wide in the beginning of 2018.


• Many teachers are willing to use innovative teaching and learning strategies but they will need support to let them see the linkage between the new technology and their needs.


• For example, teachers may have difficulties in locating the right LMS tools to achieve their desired learning outcomes. It may also be hard for some teachers to see how certain pedagogy and teaching approach can be supported by the new technologies.


• There are a lot of guidelines and demonstration videos on the Internet about how to operate the Blackboard and Panopto tools; but yet, less attention has been paid to address the real needs of teachers – relating the tools (technology) with what is being learnt (content) and how it is taught (pedagogy). The result is that even a teacher has learnt how to use the tool; he/she may not necessarily know how to apply it on the specific courses.


• The proposed project therefore aims to fill this void by providing the missing links to teachers by integrating the three parts of knowledge teachers need: pedagogy, content and technology in order to prepare them for effective eLearning, following the suggestions in the TPACK framework.


• The deliverables will include resources in the form of self-accessible modules archived on a website consisting of various micro-lecture videos and teacher interviews for the purpose of teachers’ self-learning.