MLE and Further Education

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MLE and Further Education
MLE Developers Pack

• Paul Ricketts
• City College Manchester

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Networking Lifelong Learning 1999

• Managed Learning Environments
• Materials Development
• National Infrastructure
• Local Infrastructure
• Staff Development

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Context

• Success for All

• Get on with IT Report

• DELG recommendations

• Joint Implementation Group (JIG)

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DfES strategy

• To create an accessible infrastructure which
  makes ICT universally available to learners
• To make ICT integral to all learning processes
  and to stimulate the development and acceptance
  of new ways of learning
• To create, implement and support a dynamic
  framework for ICT skills and a corresponding
  framework for teachers

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DfES Get On with IT

• ICT as a Basic Skill an entitlement for all
• College Online
• E-learning for work based learning and SMEs
• Mentoring Network
• From learning to work Which Way?
• Ministerial lead
• E-learning marketing strategy

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Funding for Post 16 e-Learning
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DELG Areas of action

• Strategy and coordination at national and local
  levels
• Learner provision
• Content
• Quality standards and accreditation
• Learner management and information
• Staff skills and CPD
• Sustainability and funding

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Strategy and co-ordination

• Inter-agency national co-ordination (but not
  control) of e-learning initiatives
• National strategic framework for DEL
• Local LSC plans for DEL (part of core local
  strategy)
• Workforce development strategy to include
  e-learning
• LSC DEL - planning remit to include ALL 16
  provision

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Learner provision

• Goal all learners have access to ICT, and
  access to ICT and e-learning skills
• Blended learning the norm
• Research programme better to understand best
  fit blend of method and learner needs
• Develop widely available e-learning approaches to
  Skills for Life needs
• Grow the infrastructure to provide ICT access to
  whole LSC community

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Content

• Materials design standards underpin public
  funding of development
• Guidance on best practice standards for
  accessibility of DEL materials
• Feasibility of a learning materials development
  and access strategy for Post-16 sector
• Extend learndirect materials to wider 16
  community

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Quality standards and accreditation

• Standards-driven approach to materials design
• Support development of on-line assessment
• Work with QCA for rapid unitisation of
  qualifications
• Minimum standard of physical resources to be
  expected of providers
• Training in DEL for inspectors

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Learner management and information

• Alignment of learner record systems to reduce
  bureaucratic burdens on learners
• Press for unique learner ID to allow progression
  tracking between providers, including schools and
  universities

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Staff skills and professional development

• Joint study with FENTO et al to design relevant
  CPD programmes
• Study of the impact on professional practice of
  unbundling the total delivery process
• Substantial programme of development aimed at
  practitioners and managers
• Develop leadership programmes for DEL
• ICT skills mandatory part of teacher training for
  FE programmes

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Sustainability and funding

• Appropriate balance between public and private
  providers/publishers
• General expectation that the market will provide
• LSC role in promoting development or gap filling
• Mode free approach to funding
• Not all funding should be formula-driven
• Non-formula funds allocated by local LSCs to
  deliver local DEL plan

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NLN II

• In 5 years we look to establish a fully connected
  national learning community covering homes,
  schools, colleges and workplaces sharing
• Infrastructure
• Learning materials
• Learning systems and data
• Enthusiastic, well trained staff
• First class support services
• Best practice

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NLN Strategic Vision
Learning systems and data
Learning materials
Infrastructure
First class support services
Enthusiastic well trained staff
Best practice
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Becta Managing agency for NLN, NLN Materials
development ILT Champions NLN website Ferl
UKERNA JANET connections network related
issues Technical training Information services
LSC Policy, Strategy Funding Liaison with DfES
UfI/learndirect, funding bodies, UK Online
JISC JISC Committees Regional Support
Centres Collections JISC Services
LSDA Research activities FENTO ILT Standards
development Staff development activities Conferenc
e support Senior Management Training
NILTA Membership FENTO ILT Standards NILTA
Committees Support for Local LSCs Liaison with
UfI and AOC
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NLN II

• Focus of centrally supported development to move
  from ILT infrastructure to realising the
  potential of ILT for Learning and Teaching
• Higher priority to practice and management whilst
  sustaining infrastructure investment

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Questions

• Current strategy effective way forward?
• Coping with exponential resource demands?
• The size of the people task?
• Likely changes in learner expectations?
• Overcoming innate conservatism?
• Faster curriculum changes?
• How do we measure the impact?