The Kansas Blackboard Users Group is a new organization in the state dedicated to furthering the improved use of Blackboard in both K-12 and post-secondary education. Recently, the organization held its spring meeting where participants were able to see and experience the new upcoming Blackboard version 6, scheduled for release later this year. Mark Kourchin from Blackboard was on hand to show off this incredible new upgrade.
Heather Hull
Heather Hull, from the College of Health Professions, has offered her Advanced Health Assessment course for three semesters. Heather has been interested in using the Web to support her courses so that she have greater control over the content scheduling, and allow the students to review the materials multiple times. Heather chose to utilize a variety of technologies to accomplish this task, including CD-ROMs, discussion board activities, and online testing components. Heather also posts all of her handouts, assignments, and PowerPoint presentations to the Web in a variety of formats for her students.
Advanced Health Assessment
Heather Hull from the College of Health Professions has offered her hybrid course - Advanced Health Assessment - for three semesters. This unique course blends a course Web page with CD-ROMs developed at the Media Resources Center. Students access the course Web site for lesson material, discussion board activity, e-tests, and other related information. They then use a set of 16 custom CD-ROMs to view the course didactic material. These presentations include lectures from several leading Wichita-based physicians.
Global Learning Symposium
Global learning is the combination of global reach, using modern communication technologies, with global perspectives, achieved by having students and faculty interact with their counterparts in other cultures, to produce the global graduate.
