WordPress in Higher Ed: Courses, Programs and Future Plans at UBC
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This document discusses using WordPress in higher education. It provides examples of embedding WordPress blogs and sites within Blackboard courses at both the individual course and program level. It also describes integrating WordPress with the Experience API (xAPI) and learning record stores to enable learning analytics collection and visualization. Finally, it introduces UBC's new Course Spaces WordPress site designed specifically for instructors and students, which is integrated with features like quizzing, assignments, and notes as well as xAPI for analytics.
WordPress in Higher Ed: Courses, Programs and Future Plans at UBC
- 1. WordPress in Higher Ed: Courses, Programs & the Future Barish Golland Learning Ecosystems Support & Solutions Manager Sauder Learning Services @BarishGolland, @UBCSauderLS
- 2. UBC’s Learning Technology Ecosystem: Where WordPress fits in
- 4. WordPress/Blackboard integration in a Large Course
- 7. WordPress Master Blog embedded in a Blackboard Course
- 8. WordPress “Backchannel” blog embedded in a Blackboard Course
- 15. WordPress Program level Blog embedded in a Blackboard Course
- 16. Secondary Co-curricular Blog with LearnDash modules embedded in a BB Course
- 17. xAPI (experience API) integration into LRS (Learning Record Store)
- 18. Course Blog xAPI Statement Learning Record Store (LRS) Student views blog xAPI JSON Statement Created (actor, verb, object) xAPI Statements stored here Data Visualization via Tableau, assembled with data points from other sources Learning Analytics setup using xAPI in WordPress
- 19. Backend xAPI Plugin in WP Custom built WP Plugin that allows xAPI statements generated in WP to push to specific node in LRS
- 20. UBC Faculty of Arts course blog examples
- 24. UBC’s new “Course Spaces” – WordPress designed for Instructors/Students
- 26. Spaces • New Course blog site designed for instructors / courses • CTLT coded plugin/theme from ground up • Quizzing, progress bars, assignment submissions, modular build, note taking, handouts area, discussion forum • xAPI / LRS ready (Learning Analytics)
- 27. Mobile friendly, simple user interface
- 30. Questions? Twitter: @BarishGolland, @UBCSauderLS Email: barish.Golland@sauder.ubc.ca
- 31. Appendix: More notes/ screenshots of Course Spaces