Digital Learning Days
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Before you go
Please take note that registration starts at 10.30am for Manila, and 9.00am for Davao. Upon arrival, please report to the registration desk to collect your name badges. Lunch will be served during the event.
About Digital Learning Days
Blackboard Digital Learning Days is a series of roadshows that aims to provide educators, learning designers, and system administrators insight into trends in education technology that address today's challenges in higher education. Combining expertise from the Blackboard solutions team and users from our client institutions themselves, these roadshows will also explore best practices addressing student engagement, technology adoption and inclusive learning. Programs and agenda are unique to each city, and we will look at various facets of teaching & learning that also contribute to institutional development. Roadshows are designed for academics, faculty members, course designers, system admins and e-learning managers.
Program Theme
Facilitating Engaging Learner Experiences
Through intuitive workflows, simplified integrations and a seamless user experience, institutions are delivering learning experiences that are engaging, accessible and insightful; inspiring genuine interest, attention and interaction in the learning process.
Agenda (Manila)
10:30am - 11:00am
Registration
11:00am - 11:10am
Opening - Engaging the Modern Learner
11:10am - 12.00pm
Rising to the Challenges of 21st Century Learners
Speaker: Dr. Susan D'Aloia, Client Success Advocate, Asia, Blackboard
Effective eLearning practices can help to meet the challenges of 21st Century learners. However, even the most accomplished institutions recognize gaps within their professional development offerings. The globally successful eTeacher program has responded to this need. In this session, you will have the opportunity to recognize some of the potential gaps within your institution and how eTeacher can address them.
12:00pm - 12:30pm
Building an Inclusive Learning Environment with Blackboard Technology
Speaker: Foong Yee Leong, Programs Director, Teaching & Learning Solutions, APAC, Blackboard
12:30pm - 1:00pm
Microlearning: Why Bite-Sized Information Matters Within Our Brain
Speaker: A/Prof. Anna Cherylle Ramos, President, Philippines eLearning Society
As an educator producing teaching materials, you will constantly face the dilemma of how to make concepts as astounding and informative in the shortest available time. Competing with the overly exposed and visually stimulated consumers of information today, it can become a challenge if the designers of eLearning content are not guided with the latest evidence-based research data and brain-based learning principles. Equipping content producers with new tricks and technology skills for maximizing the brain’s potential becomes more than just important, it becomes pressingly necessary. Join Prof. Anna as she explores the affordances of microlearning both as an eLearning trend and an information processing strategy in helping learners achieve instructional goals in the shortest possible time.
1:00pm - 2:00pm
Lunch
2.00pm- 3:00pm
Breakout A: Open LMS Roadmap and Product Innovation Workshop
Speakers: Laura Martin Prieto, Sr. Product Owner and UX lead | Pablo Borbon, Product Management Director
In this interactive session, you will learn about Open LMS vision and product principles directly from the product team. We will also cover elements of Open LMS roadmap for recent and future releases, see how those elements translate into value creation opportunities for your users, and discover areas for future product enhancements.
2:00pm - 3:00pm
Breakout B: Understanding the Development Process of Blackboard Learn
Speaker: Nick Benwell, Solutions Engineer, APAC, Blackboard
In this session, you will learn about your role in the Blackboard Learn product development process. We will explore avenues of feedback and introduce a new method of requesting for features and enhancements in Blackboard Learn Ultra. We will also cover elements of the roadmap for recent and future releases and show you how to start exploring the new Learn Ultra interface.
3.10pm - 3:20pm
Lucky Draw Winner Announcement
3.20pm - 3:30pm
Closing - Engaging the Modern Learner
Agenda (Davao)
9:00am - 10:00am
Registration
10:00am - 10:10am
Opening - Engaging the Modern Learner
10:10am - 11.00am
Rising to the Challenges of 21st Century Learners
Speaker: Dr. Susan D'Aloia, Client Success Advocate, Asia, Blackboard
Effective eLearning practices can help to meet the challenges of 21st Century learners. However, even the most accomplished institutions recognize gaps within their professional development offerings. The globally successful eTeacher program has responded to this need. In this session, you will have the opportunity to recognize some of the potential gaps within your institution and how eTeacher can address them.
11:00am - 11:40am
Building an Inclusive Learning Environment with Blackboard Technology
Speaker: Foong Yee Leong, Programs Director, Teaching & Learning Solutions, APAC, Blackboard
11:40am - 12:40pm
Lunch
12.40pm- 1:40pm
Breakout A: Open LMS Roadmap and Product Innovation Workshop
Speakers: Laura Martin Prieto, Sr. Product Owner and UX lead | Pablo Borbon, Product Management Director
In this interactive session, you will learn about Open LMS vision and product principles directly from the product team. We will also cover elements of Open LMS roadmap for recent and future releases, see how those elements translate into value creation opportunities for your users, and discover areas for future product enhancements.
12:40pm - 1:40pm
Breakout B: Understanding the Development Process of Blackboard Learn
Speaker: Nick Benwell, Solutions Engineer, APAC, Blackboard
In this session, you will learn about your role in the Blackboard Learn product development process. We will explore avenues of feedback and introduce a new method of requesting for features and enhancements in Blackboard Learn Ultra. We will also cover elements of the roadmap for recent and future releases and show you how to start exploring the new Learn Ultra interface.
1.50pm - 2:00pm
Lucky Draw Winner Announcement
2.00pm - 2:10pm
Closing - Engaging the Modern Learner
Event Location (Manila)
University of Santo Tomas
The University of Santo Tomas is one of the top four universities in the Philippines and is consistently ranked among the top 1000 universities in the world. UST is both timeless, owing to its more than four hundred years of quality Catholic education, and timely, as it continuously responds to the needs of the present.
Event Location (Davao)
University of Mindanao
The University of Mindanao was established in 1946 and is one of the oldest universities in Southern Philippines. It is a non-sectarian school offering the most number of academic programs in this part of the country. It is located in Davao City. The University of Mindanao has 9 campuses and branches in Southern Mindanao. It has a total student population of 40, 439 (SY 2016- 2017). It is the largest private university in Mindanao and cited as having the most number of PACUCOA accredited programs in the country today.