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Rodney Tamblyn Gloria Gomez (PhD) Co-founder Co-founder • Roles: GM, client management, • Roles: strategy, research, design, sales, technology. OB3 product marketing owner • Creator of OB3 product design • 25 years experience vision designing, developing and • Assistant professor at the University supporting educational of Southern Denmark (2012-17) technologies for Higher Education • Prior multidisciplinary software • Educational software developer projects include working on University of Otago (1990s) Proyecto Ludomatica (1998 - 2001, • Alumni Emerge Education - London Colombia) and the CmapTools (’15) project (2001-2003, USA) • Honorary senior lecturer, Save Sight Institute, University of Sydney
OceanBrowser Ltd. About us • New Zealand-based online learning company • Virtual office working with like-minded people – local & remote • Build rewarding long-term strategic partnerships with clients • Designing and building an exciting and innovative product • Genuinely caring that teachers and students succeed at achieving their goals using our technology
2010 2015 2018 2021 • We set out! • OB3 version 2 • Validated with • Coaching • Rapid prototyping • LMS Integration customers for academic with BDP approach via LTI (research performance publications, year • Lifelong • Buy-in to vision • Collaborative on year use) from existing learning & learning clients codesign • New adoptions, • Share your activities diversifying uses knowledge: • R&D investment Callaghan • Emerge • Ongoing product web publishing Innovation Education development and • Communities Accelerator refinement • Research-informed of practice long-term product (London) • EduGrowth plan activities • 2012 OB3 released Build the best OB3: media- OB3: Beautiful platform for rich documents Study for Lifelong online academic with embedded LearningTM study discussionsTM 5
“What we find really powerful is that all aspects of the delivery and student engagement are seamlessly deployed within the same space which creates a very easy and enjoyable on-line classroom” David Irwin PhD Sustainable Practice, ARA Institute of Canterbury Source: Gomez, G., Daellenbach, R., Davies, L., Kensington, M., & Petsoglou, C. (2018). OB3 media- rich documents with embedded discussions: lifting learning performance and engagement. Access in ResearchGate 6
INNOVATION #1 INNOVATION #2 OB3 media- A unique interface for Embedding discussions rich documents students and teachers to author and share + inside curriculum content or assignments = with embedded discussionsTM media-rich documents OB3’s innovations in interaction design OB3 enables academic staff to prepare The R&D of OB3 focused in supporting curriculum content and enhance student activities in online academic study that relate engagement using asynchronous discussions. to reviewing curriculum materials in varied It incorporates two innovations in interaction formats or written assignments. This project design. Students and academic staff can was underpinned by a social interaction author media-rich documents, while only design methodology and the Bridging requiring basic technological skills. Secondly, Design Prototype approach. it enables embedding discussions inside curriculum content. In 2009 qualitative research was undertaken with our then users (time-starved academics, distance students) about their issues OB3’s innovations lift learning studying online. Outcomes informed performance in 3 ways: the development of guidelines and requirements that in turn informed feature • Removes the need for a conceptualization and design. technologist (e.g. course builder, multimedia consultant) when Data analysis drew theoretical concepts from sources including: preparing media-rich documents 1. educational design that supports the • Students engage in asynchronous efficient use of study skills that contribute discussions with teachers inside a to academic success; document 2. good visual design that facilitates • Students engage in authoring learning, is cognitively effective, and curriculum topics or reflective helps us manage our work and thought; practice as part of assignments and 3. networked learning in which information These innovations have enabled and communication technology (ICT) is the development of online used to promote connections between active learning communities and people transformed students into co- designers of learning. 7
“Collaborative documents can be easily constructed in OB3 with each sentence identified as to the student and time this was posted. Edits within pages are seemlessly added. OB3 has enabled exceptional group projects from students and enhanced the quality of the academic outputs from each cohort.” Dr Constantinos Petsoglou MBBS, MMED, FRANCO Senior Lecturer, Discipline of Clinical Ophthalmology, University of Sydney Visiting Senior Lecturer, Otago Medical School and UNSW Optometry School Capturing ideas on the go and emailing to an OB3 document in progress 8
Co-creating entries for an encyclopedic resource on Optics The wiki pages on Optics are collaborative documents of student- created content. The lecturers provide the topic, the students do the rest. Students take ownership for the content of their assigned page. For the first 6-week period the student is responsible for developing content for their assigned wiki page. In the second 6-week period, we encourage collaboration where students contribute to each other’s pages via discussions and co-writing. We initially found that online collaboration took a little bit of encouragement. We assess both the student’s page content and their collaborative contributions. Completed pages can be accessed by future students and course alumni. The goal is to have these wiki pages as a resource of the unit of study so students and alumni in the future can access them as an encyclopaedic resource, a kind of “Wikipedia”, for the Optics topic. There is a lot of bad online content that is not specific to what students need for their career, or for their learning as a high- level subject course. This student-led project has addressed this issue. Time-starved, fitting Source: Gomez, G., Daellenbach, R., Kensington, M., Davies, L., & Petsoglou, C. (2017). Benefits of enabling activities around life & lecturers and students to author, share and discuss work media-rich documents for online study. Digital poster. ASCILITE 2017 9
• Document comprises topics, related cases for discussions, and references • Each cases include questions to discuss • Students use discussions to provide comments, share videos, links to documents, and upload documents (added via web or email) • The conversation is moderated by the 10 lecturers
“Students and lecturers have commented on how much they enjoy the commentary and the discussion in OB3. They work interactively and contribute ideas and materials that they have encountered by sharing urls and uploading materials themselves. They speak of the value of having colleagues clarify things for them in a way that lecturers are not always able to do, at a peer level... the asynchronous discussion allows them time for reflection which encourages more engagement by students who feel put on the spot during synchronous sessions...” Source: Daellenbach, D. R., Davies, L., Kensington, M., & Tamblyn, R. (2014). Fostering online student interaction using the OB3 web application for online study. ASCILITE 2014 Curriculum Content and the implications for the guidelines and research provision of midwifery care. articles and other resources. with Questions and The case study sets up a For example, this module Answers (Q&A) scenario and then there will links back to Moodle to use a be some questions asked. physiology quiz hosted there. The module “Respiratory Often there is a story that In other modules we create Challenges in Pregnancy” (figure might begin with a question Q&A where the students 7) provides an example of how related to antenatal care, and have to identify aspects curriculum content is structured then go on to labour, birth from an article. In the one in practice-based papers. It and postnatal. Students can illustrated in figure 7, the begins with a theoretical part selectively respond and learn Q&A are around the case in which there is description of from each other. The lecturers study. the physiology of the respiratory (MK in figure 7) add further system and pathophysiology prompts and clarification. This and applies this to particular is a similar structure to one that conditions that are common was utilised in the face-to-face Source: Gomez, G., Daellenbach, R., Kensington, M., Davies, L., & in pregnant women, such as lectures that preceded the Petsoglou, C. (2017). Benefits of asthma. This is then followed introduction of the blended enabling lecturers and students to programme.In OB3 documents, author, share and discuss media- by a case study with Q&A to rich documents for online study. prompt students to connect the content utilises a range of Digital poster. ASCILITE 2017 theory and practice.A case study media, such a video teaching approach focuses attention on materials that already exist, the lived experience for women links to the latest professional 11
Save Sight Institute at the University of Sydney: a 15-year strategic partnership We have a 15 year customer relationship Blackboard) using LTI. We have with the SSI. OB3 is currently used developed some enhancements to across all the SSI’s postgraduate courses. support Canvas integration, including Their Master’s in Basic Ophthalmic analytics and course development Sciences was evaluated as one of reports, and the ability to embed video Sydney Faculty of Medicine’s highest content from OB3 directly within LMS performing courses, with OB3 identified pages. as component of this success. OB3 is also used in international courses, short- At the undergraduate level, we courses, and to build communities of developed a stand-alone web practice (e.g. for doctors working in application (the Virtual Ophthalmic hospitals). Studio) that all medical students at Sydney complete as a self-paced study All University courses using OB3 are activity. This functions on top of OB3 delivered integrated with Sydney and is delivered integrated with the University Canvas LMS (and previously LMS. Timeline 2005 2006 2010 Save Sight Institute and University Initial course delivery (3 papers)on • Half day seminar at University of of Otago Ophthalmology encrypted DVDs with OceanBrowser Sydney - OB+ SSI agree collaboratively distance 1.0 software (Mac/Windows), web • OB3 Design vision shared & deliver postgraduate basic forums and VoIP conferencing discussed ophthalmic science courses • Increase license to support OB3 v1 2008 Oceanbrowser 2.0 software app 2011 (Mac/Windows) released. More • Migration of SSI course content to papers added OB3 v1 (beta) • Testing and refinements • OB DVD courseware phased out
“OB3 definitely outshines in the following areas: • Protection of the Intellectual Property... allowing us to encourage accessibility but reiterate the content is the lecturer’s intellectual property • Provide life long access beyond the narrow confines of a degree course...allow students continued access to assist in their future careers and exam preparation • Is a flexible platform that encourages students to share Strategic vision Platform features their work with colleagues. • SSI vision: “education • Analytics for course Secure sharing adds to the provider from cradle to review, providing academic integrity of the grave” evidence of efficacy services, and support for a • Build Community of Practice • Reports to simplify wide variety of file formats administrative and encourages students to • OB3 enabled collaborative develop and share content delivery & teaching with Canvas OB3 course University of Otago by authoring tasks • Works within existing LMS coordinating activities on This hybrid system has been independent platform running exceptionally well OB3 uses Oceanbrowser has provided What they value • Enable co-creation us with innovative solutions to • Simplicity - straightforward & reuse of graduate online learning problems. We are intuitive design student-generated looking forward to continuing • Integration with Canvas LMS content. our collaboration for many years • Enable hospital, • Encyclopedic resources to come.” international, non-profit & • Journal clubs short course offerings • Video-based Dr Constantinos Petsoglou • Alumni access assignments MBBS, MMED, FRANCO • Software development Senior Lecturer, Discipline of Clinical & support custom Ophthalmology, University of Sydney elearning projects Visiting Senior Lecturer, Otago Medical School and UNSW Optometry School 2012 2016 2018 Courses go live in OB3 version 1 • Completion of Virtual Ophthalmic • Go live: OB3 “hybrid” delivery Clinic app on OB3 goes live with with Canvas Sydney 2nd year medical students • Enhanced support level 2015 (maternity leave) • OB3 v2 go live, SSI migrates to 2017 new version • Implement and support ocular 2019 • Integration with Blackboard LMS pathology image server Enhanced support level (new staff) • OB3 enhancements & services: Canvas migration
“The School of Midwifery has been using OB3 since 2013. The draw card of OB3 was the ability to have asynchronous contextual discussions within the online created content. OB3 provides the opportunity for students & lecturers to ‘co-create’ emergent understandings, discuss perspectives which are visually linked to the content that the discussion originates from and asynchronously follow discussion threads. It is easy to use and gives us a sense of how students are responding to the teaching materials.” Mary Kensington Head of Midwifery Dept.Nursing, Midwifery & Allied Health ARA Institute of Canterbury Timeline 2012 2013 2015 • Initially met at DEANZ • Initial pilot • Migrated all courses to OB3 version conference where we presented • Successful migration of all 2. Integration with ARA (Moodle) a poster on OB3 v1 R&D content by ARA staff using OB3 LMS • ARA Midwifery had immediate media-rich authoring features • ARA Enterprise pilot in 4 need for solution as their Departments. Outcome: OB3 existing platform was no longer 2014 recommended for use in courses supported ARA presented concise at ASCILITE using co-construction of learning 2014 describing benefits experienced in switching to OB3
Ara Institute of Canterbury: 6-year customer Bachelor of Midwifery Master of Sustainable Practice • Chosen to deliver the theoretical • New qualification for future change component of the programme in makers and leaders response to student evaluations of • Brings together teaching staff from across the previous technology platform, the institute to work collaboratively in which students consistently identified feeling isolated and unsure • Using OB3 for in-class and online of how they were progressing with collaborative activities and discussions their learning • Evaluations have shown students find OB3 discussions valuable for “Staff can upload content and their learning, and also feel more directions for engaging with connected to other students in their learning. Students can make courses comments and interact with • The interface was crisp, clear and each other, challenge each unfettered and it felt intuitive and other and support each other. user friendly They can upload their own • OB3 used in all degree papers + work which can then be shared portfolio (from 2019) with other students in both • Integrated with the institution’s synchronous and asynchronous Learning Management System. It is spaces, and knowledge can easy to control level of access rights be generated together. OB3 students and lecturers have in terms is a wonderful platform for of viewing, discussing, editing and postgraduate students and authoring of documents appears to be constructed with collaborative learning pedagogies in mind” Source: Daellenbach, D. R., Davies, L., Kensington, M., & Tamblyn, R. David Irwin PhD (2014). Fostering online student interaction Sustainable Practice, using the OB3 web application for online ARA Institute of Canterbury study. ASCILITE 2014 2016 2019 2020 ARA delivering all theoretical papers for • Midwifery portfolios shift from • Allied Health adopting OB3 for 3 year degree using OB3 (integrated paper to OB3 all postgraduate papers with LMS) • OB3 delivers new features to • Expanded use in Midwifery and support portfolio use Sustainability due to growing 2018 • ARA shift from Departmental enrolments and additional papers Master of Sustainable Practice licensing to Enterprise reflecting adopts OB3 for new degree that OB3 is becoming “widely adopted system” at ARA offering
Massey University’s enterprise piloting Customer since 2017 Helping Massey to fulfil it’s strategic Teaching and Learning vision to provide environments that are media-rich, interactive, forward-looking and supports active learning communities. Executive MBA Using OB3 for Reflective Practice Portfolios allowing students to capture thoughts in writing, make audio recordings, upload video, photos, documents, and keep it all in easy to manage, confidential web documents. Clinical Pharmacology Group-based activities comprising weekly discussion documents, with questions from textbook chapters. Students accessing OB3 from Stream (Moodle) LMS. 16
University of Otago Customer since 2004 The University of Otago Ophthalmology Department was OceanBrowser’s first customer in 2004 and have been with us ever since. Otago University Ophthalmology students use OB3 as part of their collaborative course delivery with the Save Sight Institute. We are currently planning a special project with Otago Ophthalmology, the Visual Pathways web app, which will be delivered on a similar model to the Virtual Ophthalmic Studio app. Initial phases are already completed (3D visualisation movies and content) and we hope the final project can be completed in 2020. Tasmanian Eye Institute Customer since 2018 The Institute has a mandate to develop educational resources for eye health for the public, medical students, doctors, and trainees entering Ophthalmology profession. OB3 will be used for: • Independent publishing of Ophthalmology textbook • Ability to make editions for different audiences (nurses, students, doctors) • Incorporation of study features to assist learning • Ability to use within online education programmes (e.g. licensed to Universities) and within business (e.g Ophthalmology practices) • Build an online community of practice • Incorporate rich media and discussions 17
Evaluating OB3 with the Evaluating OB3 with the Creative Classroom (CCR) NMC Horizon Reports Framework The innovative study practices undertaken using OB3 media-rich documents with Using OB3 to author, share and discuss embedded discussions have facilitated our media-rich documents with embedded customers’ programmes to follow educational discussions (table 1), has facilitated our technology trends and address challenges Otago-Sydney and ARA customers to charted in the NMC Horizon Report series. adopt innovative practices across 6 CCR See column 4 in the table (right) for details. dimensions and 12 building blocks. The table on the right, column 1 lists the relevant The NMC Horizon Report series charts the practices and relates them to the customers’ five-year impact of innovative practices and programmes in columns 2 and 3. technologies for higher education across the globe. With more than 15 years of research Creative Classrooms are conceptualised as and publications, the NMC Horizon Project innovative learning environments that fully can be regarded as education’s longest- embed the potential of ICT to innovate running exploration of emerging technology learning and teaching practices in formal, trends and uptake. Six key trends, six non-formal and informal settings. The CCR significant challenges, and six developments framework consists of 8 encompassing and in educational technology profiled in the interconnected key dimensions and a set of 2017 report are poised to impact teaching, 28 reference parameters or building blocks. learning, and creative inquiry in higher education (Adams Becker et al., 2017). Innovative pedagogical practices are found at the heart of the framework, which emerge when teachers use ICT in their efforts to organise newer and improved forms of Source: Gomez, G., Daellenbach, R., Kensington, M., open-ended, collaborative, and meaningful Davies, L., & Petsoglou, C. (2017). Benefits of enabling learning activities, rather than to enhance lecturers and students to author, share and discuss media- rich documents for online study. Digital poster presented traditional pedagogies (Bocconi et al, 2012; at ASCILITE 2017 Johnson et al., 2014). 18
INNOVATIVE PEDAGOGICAL PRACTICES EMERGING WHILE USING OB3 FOR ONLINE HOW OB3 ENABLED STUDY TRENDS AND HELPED ADDRESS DIMENSION AND CASE 1: OTAGO-SYDNEY CASE 2: ARA CHALLENGES RELEVANT BUILDING POSTGRADUATE UNDERGRADUATE BLOCKS IN THE CCR PROGRAMME IN PROGRAMME IN FRAMEWORK OPHTHALMIC BASIC MIDWIFERY SCIENCE DIMENSION CONTENT Lecture documents with Lecturers readily create CHALLENGE: AND CURRICULA: embedded discussions content with minimal • Rethinking the roles • Meaningful created by students support of educators activities Wiki-style co-written TREND: documents created by students • Deeper learning approaches DIMENSION Student-led online lecture Student-created content TREND: ASSESSMENT: development with multimedia • Rise of data-driven Using multimedia and • Engaging assessment content existing online resources learning an formats assessment Clinically relevant assignments both for teaching each • Formative assessment other and for assessments providing deeper learning objectives DIMENSION LEARNING Projects such as wiki-pages, Students and lecturers “co- CHALLENGES: PRACTICES: journal clubs, exemplar tasks, create” emergent • Students as co- • Self-regulated learning plagiarism interactive units understandings, discuss designers of • Personalised learning being provided to encourage perspectives and learning • Peer to peer peer to peer collaborations asynchronously follow • Personalised collaboration within the semester discussion threads learning Every student must create study materials, contribute TREND: to discussions in lectures, • Collaborative and lead group projects learning DIMENSION TEACHING Graded content and Asynchronous discussion CHALLENGES: PRACTICES: assessment tasks allow for allows students time for • Improving digital • Soft skills gradual upskilling of students reflection, encouraging literacy • Multiple learning styles over a 2-year course more engagement by • Complex thinking • Multiples modes of Asynchronous discussion students who feel put on and communication thinking the spot during within lectures encouraging online interactions synchronous or in face to- face sessions DIMENSION Communication with students Connectedness is TRENDS: CONNECTEDNESS: as to timetable promoted through the • Rise of data-driven • Networking with authoring, sharing and learning an Provision of live lectures real world discussing of multi- media assessment within programme • Learning events rich documents. It also • Growing focus on Ability to monitor discussions addresses students’ measuring learning and interactions easily with experience of social inbuilt notifications isolation DIMENSION Incorporation of Theoretical component of TREND: INFRASTRUCTURE: demonstration videos, the course taught online • Blended learning • ICT infrastructure documents and learning apps designs within the platform across both distance and face-to-face units of study
Piloting OB3 is an ideal way to explore the benefits that OB3 can bring to your organisation We’ll help you to plan your pilot Enhanced pilot engagement support OB3, drawing on our knowledge service. and experience working with other This support level enables us to work organisations, and ensuring you are 1:1 with educational developers, course fully supported throughout the initial builders, teachers and tutors in a pilot exploration, planning, pilot delivery, course. Our highly experienced and and post-pilot assessment stages. Our qualified staff function as a virtual team, promise to you is that we will provide to plan and support OB3 activities you with outstanding engagement and around the specific needs of your pilot. support. We will do everything in our power to ensure you achieve a successful Review and reporting service outcome from your piloting process. This provides monitoring, analysis of your use of OB3, both during and at Pilot services we offer include: the conclusion of your pilot. Reporting will include summaries of analytics Onsite visits data, analysis of your use of OB3, and Visiting provides an unparalleled recommendations for future course opportunity for us to build a deep delivery. understanding your needs, focus intensively on your pilot, and establish Research services professional connections with your staff Examples include collaborating with that will continue online. Activities might academic staff at your organisation include: meetings, training, presentations on the preparation of journal to diverse audiences (management, articles or conference papers. More teachers, students), seminars, workshops, strategically focused longer term or participation in campus conferences. research collaborations may involve We are experienced working with grant writing, and seeking co-funding audiences at all levels within Higher from external investment sources, with Education. outputs feeding back into technology innovation. Pilot planning and kick-off activities This will involve building an understanding Development services of your priorities and challenges, agreeing Perhaps your pilot would benefit from on overall objectives for the pilot and how prioritized development of a new it will be managed, and finding the right feature, or there may be a technical or courses for initial piloting. We’ll assist you organizational requirement at your end with online webinars and presentations, that requires development services. project management activities, 1:1 We’ll identify these needs in the pilot support and training (via chat, email, and planning stage, and whatever the online calls), meetings, and the creation/ challenge we’re here to help. sharing of demonstration content in OB3. 20
Pilot (year 1) • Initial engagement • Pilot planning and kickoff activities – what does good look like? Identify risks. Identify internal project owner • Project management – track and report progress • Enhanced Pilot engagement service • Review and Reporting services • Onsite visits (1-2) Post-pilot engagement (year 2) • Apply outcomes from pilot • Ongoing use in pilot courses, onboard additional new courses • Capacity building and dissemination activities with T&L staff • Research, initial discussions and planning • Onsite visit (1-2) Adoption and enterprise (year 3+) • Clarity on both sides around goals and expectations • Innovation and strategy. Identify projects, advance tactics • Research. Support your researchers around OB3 outputs • Client-relationship-management: opportunity planning, technology roadmap and alignment to your needs • Onsite visit (1-2)
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Active learning The OB3 Difference benefits according to • An elegant and powerful editor for creating our customers media-rich study documents, which only requires users to have basic digital skills Approaches • Discussions created in context within content • Flipped classroom • Learners and teachers co-create meaningful • Blended learning models independent and collaborative study • Deep learning activities • Co-creation of understandings • Co-construction of learning • Alumni access • Work integrated learning / • Novel technical design for content: pages knowledge in action are constructed from many individual • Online learning communities elements of content – allows development of innovative features in areas such as study Types summarisation, content management, and • Peer to peer collaboration (+) reporting workflows • Personalised learning • Personalised support for learner based Applications on their activity through in-app and email • Reflective practice notifications • Documenting and discussing • Integrate with enterprise systems with practice experience objective to avoid duplicating existing • Portfolio development for systems and “do best what the LMS does professional certification worst” • Conventional lecture documents • Strategic partnerships – building on the • Curriculum content with Q&A strong relationships we have established and • Wiki pages sustained over many years with our Higher • Journal club discussions Education clients. • Interdisciplinary projects • Organise work in groups • Adoption pathway – reference-ability includes case studies of long term adoption in contrasting programmes, conference presentations, and publications • Highly experienced and capable founding team with decades of experience in Higher Education spanning technology, teaching, research, design, product development and innovation
OceanBrowser Ltd. Rodney Tamblyn Dr Gloria Gomez http://www.ob3.io Co-founder & CEO Co-founder @ob3app rodney@oceanbrowser.com gloria@oceanbrowser.com +643 474 21 02 © 2019 OceanBrowser Ltd. All rights reserved.
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