Wimba’s product vision

Steve Kann

SVP Engineering

Wimba’s product vision

Steve Kann

SVP Engineering

Enabling 21st Century Teaching and LearningEnabling 21st Century Teaching and Learning

The following is intended to outline our general product direction. It is intended for information purposes only, and may not be incorporated into any contract. It is not a commitment to deliver any material, code, or functionality. The development, release, and timing of any features or functionality described for Wimba’s products remains at the sole discretion of Wimba.

21st Century Teaching and Learning

Is changing the basic education model

21st Century Teaching and Learning

Is changing the basic education model

Teacher Teacher ProficiencyProficiency

Education Model

StudentStudentExpectationsExpectations

Better Better ResultsResults

More More ChoicesChoices

Political Economic

Social Technology

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Effective Teaching and Learning

Begins with effective content

Effective Teaching and Learning

Begins with effective content• Effective content is

a requirement of teaching and learning

• Effective content can be in digital or traditional formats

• Effective content can come from traditional sources, or directly from educators and students

• Teaching and learning is much more than simply distributing content

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Effective Teaching and Learning

Collaboration is the engine

Effective Teaching and Learning

Collaboration is the engine• The most profound

experiences students take away from school don’t come from books.

• Effective educators instill in students a passion for learning, and provide the tools to learn how to learn.

• Collaboration, and learning happens both inside and outside of the classroom

EducatorsAnd Students

EducatorsAnd Students

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Effective Teaching and Learning

Assessment and Analytics

Effective Teaching and Learning

Assessment and Analytics• If you can’t measure

something, you can’t improve it.

• The movement for accountability in education is growing in importance

• Assessment– Standardized assessment, adaptive

assessment, and self-guided assessments

• Analytics (aka Usage Insight)– Determine the effectiveness of tools,

methodologies, staff and content.– Can be used for immediate remediation

(intervention), or for fine-tuning processes.

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Web 2.0an evolution of the web focused on rapid development

and connecting people together.

Web 2.0an evolution of the web focused on rapid development

and connecting people together.

• Sharing content

• Bring people together in social networks

• User-generated content

• Rich Content

• Technological standards and APIs create climate for innovation

Image © Luca Cremonini, Markus Angermeier, redistributed under terms of Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.5 License

Image © Luca Cremonini, Markus Angermeier, redistributed under terms of Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.5 License

Wimba’s MandateEffectively harness technology to enhance

21st century teaching and learning

Wimba’s MandateEffectively harness technology to enhance

21st century teaching and learning

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Teacher Teacher ProficiencyProficiency

Education Model

StudentStudentExpectationsExpectations

Better Better ResultsResults

More More ChoicesChoices

Political Economic

Social Technology

Wimba Product Vision is your product vision

Wimba Product Vision is your product vision

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• We’re learning every day• Our product managers• Our advisory board• Feedback:

http://www.wimba.com/community/productfeedback.php

What’s a Kiwi?What’s a Kiwi?

• Our Next Generation Platform

• Built from the ground up for education, and only for education

• Designed from the ground up to be:

– Integrated– Scalable– Modular

• The platform behind Pronto

What about our existing platforms?What about our existing platforms?

• Core technologies are shared between current and next-get products:– Media: Audio, Video– Application sharing– Tunneling– Others

• We’ll continue to innovate on our current platforms!

• Core technologies individually support teaching and learning

• Smart application designs combine technologies to support diverse learning opportunities

• Opportunistic enhancements and workflows support key non-instructional activities

• Integrated solutions work together to reinforce the lifecycle of content

– Create

– Collaborate

– Assess

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ArchitectureModularity

ArchitectureModularity

• Scalability to meet growing needs of larger institutions, consortia, and centralized ASP deployment:

– Enterprise-class reliability

– Layered architecture with multiple servers possible per layer

– Scales from 1 server to 1 rack.

– Single point of administration

• Single, coherent database for tracking activity and usage

• Integrated platform for sharing content, and collaborating across applications.

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Pronto/Kiwi Architecture, v1.5Pronto/Kiwi Architecture, v1.5

ArchitectureScalability & Integration

ArchitectureScalability & Integration

ArchitectureStandards and APIsArchitecture

Standards and APIs

• IMS Standards– QTI: Question and Test Interoperability– LTI: Learning Tools Interoperability

• We lead this working group– IA: Information Analytics

• Emerging group studying interoperable exchange of analytical information

• Open APIs– Published APIs for our applications– Consumer, as well as Producer APIs

• Industry Standards– XMPP messaging– Asterisk/IAX/SIP media– Xiph Speex, Theora codecs – MP3 audio for Voice, Classroom– MP4 video

• Provide universal access and ease of use

• Drive “active engagement” any time, place, mode

• Bring the spark of learning outside of traditional environments.

• Respect teaching and learning workflow

• Integrate applications to create 1+1=3

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FunctionallyPowerfully simple applications for 21st

Century Teaching and Learning

FunctionallyPowerfully simple applications for 21st

Century Teaching and Learning

CreateCreateCollaborateCollaborate

AssessAssessRefineRefine

ShareShareReportReport

CaptureCaptureEnhanceEnhance

FunctionallyFunctionally

• Integrated platform can enable richer collaboration than isolated products

– Integrated presence– Content Mobility– Rich learning objects– Rich interactions in traditionally text-based applications

WimbaPRONTOWimbaPRONTO

WimbaASSESSWimbaASSESS

WimbaVOICEWimbaVOICE

WimbaCLASSROOMWimbaCLASSROOMWimbaCREATEWimbaCREATE

• Rich usage insight• Real-time information access and reporting

• Role based usage• Starts with rich APIs

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Users

Needs

EngagementTrends

Early Warning

SystemManagement

System Users Admin Users Faculty Users

Dashboard

UnifiedData

Who is doing well, who is

falling behind?

Who is doing well, who is

falling behind?

Users Courses Activity Analytics

AnalyticsAnalytics

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2007 2008 20102009

• Pronto 2.x

First use of Kiwi technology(Pronto)

“Tutor” 1.0

Product RoadmapProduct Roadmap

2006

Increased integration between applications

Increased integration between applications

Increased sophistication of core technologies

Increased sophistication of core technologies

More applicationsBuilt on kiwi

More applicationsBuilt on kiwi

Introduction of Multi-way video(Classroom)

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Q1 08 Q2 08 Q3 08 Q4 08

2008 Release Plan2008 Release Plan

Pronto 2.0•Video•Appshare•Chat Queue•Helpdesk•Institutional Notifications

Pronto 2.0•Video•Appshare•Chat Queue•Helpdesk•Institutional Notifications

Pronto 2.1•Internationalization•Scalability•ASP administration

Pronto 2.1•Internationalization•Scalability•ASP administration

Pronto 2.2•File sharing•TBA (privacy)

Pronto 2.2•File sharing•TBA (privacy)“Tutor” 1.0

• remediation and self-assessment

“Tutor” 1.0• remediation and self-assessment

Classroom 5.2•Analytics API•Presenter on the fly•Resizable Chat•MP3 archives

Classroom 5.2•Analytics API•Presenter on the fly•Resizable Chat•MP3 archives

TBATBAMoodle 3.2•Voice Authoring•Workflow enhancements

Moodle 3.2•Voice Authoring•Workflow enhancements

Classroom 5.1•External Video•Echo Cancellation•eBoard improvements•Door chime•Admin usability

Classroom 5.1•External Video•Echo Cancellation•eBoard improvements•Door chime•Admin usability

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Next generation products supporting the best features, flows and usability traits of all products

• Focus on the three pillars of learning, with collaboration as key

• Incorporate vision of our landscape

• Provide capabilities to measure results

SummarySummary

Questions?Questions?