JISC HE in FE programme

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JISC HE in FE programme
Lisa Gray Programme Manager, JISC e-Learning
Programme
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Joint Information Systems Committee

• Why does the JISC exist?
• to provide world-class leadership in the
  innovative use of ICT to support education and
  research

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What is innovation?

• Innovation is typically understood as the
  introduction of something new and useful, for
  example introducing new methods, techniques, or
  practices or new or altered products and services
  (Wikipedia)

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Primary JISC activities

• National provision to Education and Research
• Computing Network (Super JANET)
• Support for Learning and Teaching
• Support for Research
• Information Environment and Access management
• Electronic Content
• Advisory Services

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For example advisory services

• Services that provide advice and resources to
  individuals and institutions on how to develop
  strategy, change policy, innovate and improve
  practices, benefit from new technologies

Etc.
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Development programmes

• Several hundred development projects that fund
  activities in institutions to support and
  encourage innovation
• Organised into programme themes that are planned
  holistically
• e-Learning programme
• e-Research programme
• Information Environment programme
• Users and Innovation programme
• Leading to guides to good practice, exemplars,
  shared knowledge and experience, developing and
  supporting networks

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e-Learning Programme 2008-2012

• The aim of the JISC e-learning programme is to
  enable UK further and higher education to create
  a better learning environment for all learners,
  wherever and however they study, in order to
  realise the vision

• The vision is of a world where learners,
  teachers, researchers and wider institutional
  stakeholders use technology to enhance the
  overall educational experience by improving
  flexibility and creativity and by encouraging
  comprehensive and diverse personal, high quality
  learning, teaching and research.

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Development projects

• e-Learning Framework and Tools (Toolkits and
  demonstrators) - July 08
• e-Learning and pedagogy e.g. D4L and Learner
  Experience - March 09
• Innovative use of technologies in learning and
  teaching (mobile, gaming and learning spaces
  July 08
• Scottish Transformation Programme - July 07
• Distributed e-Learning Regional Pilots December
  07
• Digital Libraries in the Classroom X4L - July
  07
• Collaboration projects March 09
• HE in FE March 09
• Domain Models and technical development
• User owned technologies (PLE) March 09
• Academy subject centre projects
• XCRI and admissions demonstrators
• Assessment demonstrators July 08

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Outputs of programmes In their own words
...And because they technologies save me time,
I can spend more time doing the research and
getting everything ready, because I know when I
put the whole thing together, it will come
together quite smoothly. Gary, 4th Year
Medical Student In their own words report,
JISC
They learners have an expectation of being
able to access up-to-date and relevant
information and resources and see this as vital.
They dont see technology as anything
specialjust another tool to support their
learning. LXP Student Experiences of
Technologies Final report (Conole et al., 2006)
www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/elearning_pedag
ogy/intheirownwords
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Stories from the Regional Pilots

• 21 projects looking at the use of technology to
  support lifelong learning in a regional context
• Including the effective use of e-portfolios to
  support widening participation and progression
• And use of social networking tools for
  educational purposes

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HE in FE strand

• Projects to implement and pilot e-learning
  technologies within the HE in FE context
• Focus was on projects that aim to address an
  issue faced by piloting an appropriate, existing
  technology with students in order to enhance the
  learners experience
• Focus on evaluating the experience of those
  involved, including learners, practitioners and
  employers
• March 2007 March 2009
• 9 projects funded

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HE in FE strand

• These projects are supporting the HEFCE
  e-Learning Strategy, HEFCW strategic aims and the
  DfES e-Strategy.
• Supporting widening participation through the
• Facilitation of progression
• Provision and support of work-based learning
• Flexible delivery
• Personalised learning experiences

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Deliverables

• Implementations of e-learning technologies to
  support learners on HE courses delivered in
  colleges
• Pedagogic and technical models
• Reports or case studies analysing the areas where
  the project has been more or less successful,
  highlighting the implications and challenges for
  the sector
• Evaluation reports - of the learners experience,
  including case studies, learner diaries,
  reflective logs

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Projects

• E-portfolio / PDP related
• Bradford College ELGG to support work-based
  learners
• Gateshead College e-portfolios to support
  work-based learners
• Hull College ELGG to support work-based learners
• Leicester College exploring use of pocket PCs
  by teaching assistants to help them reflect and
  collect evidence
• e-Assessment
• Derby College personalising assessment for WBL
• University of Wales College, Cardiff exploring
  the role of e-assessment across partner colleges

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Projects

• Mobile technologies and social software
• Sheffield College use of blogs and
• wikis to teach e-communication
• University of Glamorgan and Kingston
• College use of social software and
• mobile technologies to support learners
• in the workplace

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Hull College

• Using ELGG to support work-based learners
• Developing a 3-way conversation with the
  learners, employers and tutor
• Across a range of Foundation Degrees, one PGCE
  and a BSc.
• Early findings
• Business students were less IT literate, but they
  understood the value of the software and were
  quicker to make use of it
• Computing and IT students had a wider experience
  of software but were slower to see the academic
  benefit
• Part-time students have different levels of
  engagement with their employer
• Students doing group work whilst not on campus
  enjoyed having all materials in one place
• Tutors like the reduction in paperwork regarding
  the assessment of reflection and PDP online
• Reflection is hard tutors need support in
  prompting and eliciting reflection from their
  learners

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Next steps

• Launching at ALT-C in September
• 2008
• Together with a supporting infoKit
• www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/e-portfolios
• Current calls for proposals
• Review of technologies to
• support lifelong learning
• Call out around transforming
• curriculum delivery through
• technology

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Further information

• Email l.gray_at_jisc.ac.uk
• JISC www.jisc.ac.uk
• JISC e-Learning Programme www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo
  /themes/elearning/programme_elearning.aspx
• HE in FE strand web site www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/
  programmes/programme_elearning_capital/el_heinfe.a
  spx
• JISC e-Portfolio work http//www.jisc.ac.uk/eport
  folio
• JISC Advisory Services www.jisc.ac.uk/publication
  s/publications/pub_advisoryservices.aspx
• Publications www.jisc.ac.uk/publications.aspx