EDHEC / Horizon Wimba

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EDHEC / Horizon Wimba
Bernard Curzi - ProfessorHead of Elearning DepartmentEDHEC Group Thomas Jepsen Dir Bus. Development, EMEA Horizon Wimba

• PowerPoint Template

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POP QUIZ
What is the worlds oldest pedagogical medium ..
and the one least used in online education?
SPEECH!
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About Horizon Wimba

• Horizon Wimba develops web-based collaboration
  software for the Education sector.
• Formed in Jun 04 by the merger of HorizonLive and
  Wimba
• Two long standing Blackboard Building Block
  partners
• Offices in US (New York) and Europe (Sophia
  Antipolis)
• Total focus on Online Education
• Classroom Collaboration
• Language Learning
• Approx 350 educational institutions in more than
  20 countries worldwide

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EDHEC Group

• 0ne of the top five French business schools
• Bachelor programs, Master programs, MBA Theseus
• Two campuses (Lille and Nice) approximatively
  3600 students (22 are foreign), 90 professors
• International accreditations

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Elearning policy

• Elearning introduced four years ago. It was a
  gradual rollout
• To improve our pedagogy
• Started with MBA program
• Currently developping elearning methods and
  contents for all the programs of EDHEC group
• A brand NETEDHEC Learning
• A site http//www.netedhec.com
• 100 Management support
• Elearning differentiates from other Business
  Schools in France
• Edhec become a learning organization

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The choice of BlackBoard

• BlackBoard Learning System ML
• Currently nearly 2150 students enrolled and more
  than 250 courses on line
• June 2004, EDHEC became BlackBoard Education
  training center

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Learning Teams (1)

• A specific use of Wimba tools
• To create a community spirit and to facilitate
  exchanges between students and between teachers
  and students
• We wanted to create a more human form of contact
  with voice tools, for example for free online
  discussion
• The voice tools we chose were Wimba tools
• The decision to use new voice tools was taken for
  pedagogical reasons not for technogical reasons

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Learning Teams (2)

• We started to use Wimba voice tools on our
  elearning platform this summer with a
  non-synchronised free discussion forum
• Actually, it wasnt very successful and the
  reason for that is psychological and not
  technological

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ACCESS TO LEARNING TEAM GROUP
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VOCAL FREE DISCUSSION FORUM
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VOICE BOARD RECORD A MESSAGE
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VOICE BOARD RECORD A MESSAGE
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VOICE BOARD RECORD A MESSAGE
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VOICE BOARD RECORD A MESSAGE
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VOICE BOARD REPLY A MESSAGE
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VOICE BOARD REPLY A MESSAGE
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VOICE BOARD REPLY A MESSAGE
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Live Demo.. http//www.netedhec.com
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Next experiment (1)

• Use of Wimba tools with another audience
• In France we have specialized Masters with
  students from companies.
• For one specialized Master there are courses on
  site one week per month
• Included in these courses is an English lesson

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Next experiment (2)

• One English lesson per month is not enough.
  During other three weeks the students study
  English on line
• Voice contact meetings on line with their English
  Teacher
• Practical exercises
• Real time course with voice contact

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Advantages of Voice tools

• Students give more information with voice tools
  in comparison to keyboards
• Its user friendly. A teacher can listen and
  speak easily. He is not limited by a keyboard
• One criticism from the students at the end of
  last academic year not enough communication
  space. Would like more opportunity to
  communicate. So we want to exploit Wimba tools
• Observation with a keyboard, users communicate
  less. Hope with Wimba tools, they will
  communicate more

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Horizon Wimba Education
Horizon Wimba learning solutions enable
educational institutions to fully embrace the new
wave of pedagogical opportunities afforded by
campus-wide networks and the internet

• Technology matched to unique needs
• Commitment to education priorities
• Fostering a global community

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Portfolio Products
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BlackBoard Enterprise and ML Integration

• Blackboard integration delivers classroom
  collaboration and language learning solutions
  directly into your Blackboard courses
• Single sign-on and user database
• Configuration through familiar Blackboard
  management interface.
• Blackboad integration allow you to significantly
  reduce the training needs of faculty and students
  already familiar with Blackboard.
• simplifies course deployment,
• minimizes barriers to adoption.
• Classroom Collaboration and Language Learning
  solutions
• Appear as any other resource within Blackboard
• Are deployed like any other resource within
  Blackboard and
• Are accessed by students and instructors like any
  other resource within Blackboard