CAMEL at Greenwich Maureen Castens Director of Information

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CAMEL at GreenwichMaureen CastensDirector of
Information Library Services

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CAMEL at GreenwichOil on troubled waters A
managers perspective on implementing the
e-learning strategy
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Overview

• Key strengths
• The challenges
• How we are meeting them
• Summary

• My perspective
• The context here
• Where we are in the
• e-learning strategy life cycle
• Projects
• Mechanisms for quality assurance and integration

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My perspective

• Manager of a key central service

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My perspective

• Manager of a central service
• Relatively new to Greenwich

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My perspective

• Manager of a central service
• Relatively new to Greenwich
• Member of the e-learning group

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Context - organisational

• Schools

• Primary focus

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Context - organisational

• Schools
• LEAP

• Primary Focus
• Service the strategy

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Context - organisational

• Schools
• LEAP
• ILS

• Driving Force
• Service the strategy
• Infrastructure
• Services
• Resources
• Support

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Context - organisational

• Schools
• LEAP
• ILS
• Ed Tech Services

• Driving Force
• Service the strategy
• Infrastructure
• Services
• Resources
• Support
• None

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E-Learning Strategy

• E-Learning Strategy

• Developed 04/05
• Live 05/06

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E-Learning Strategy

• E-Learning Strategy

• Developed 04/05
• Live 05/06

• Supports University mission
• Has a definition of e-learning
• Uses Scribbins Powells (2003) fan
• Principal corporate VLE platform WebCT
• Some strong School VLEs
• Philosophy of managed diversity within resources

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Strategy Life Cycle

• Year 1
• 513,000 allocated 05/06 (inc. 100,000
  University work)
• Portal and convergence 160,000 38
• Grassroots projects (12) 28
• Generic courses across University (3) 10
• Staff Development Forum 10
• Management evaluation 10
• Contingency 10
• New LT Strategy developing 2005/06
• xxx,000 allocated 06/07 for e-Learning Year 2
• Enhancing learning and teaching major theme for
  Corporate Plan 06/11

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Some Projects-1

• PORTAL PROJECT the largest oilcan
• Steering group multiple stakeholders
• Using JISC Infonet Skills Kits (project
  management risk management)
• Student portal first
• SCT Luminus product
• Assembling and building technical skills
• Creating and linking communities

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Some Projects-2

• Empowering staff
• Learner centred CPD for staff
• Pastoral Skills Handbook for tutors
• Good practice website
• Empowering students
• On-line basic mathematics
• Virtual workbench suite
• Generic courses (Research techniques, critical
  thinking)

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Some Projects-3

• Assessment
• Marker wiz check sheet (for feedback)
• Plagiarism
• Recording achievement through e-learning
• New product
• Supervision for health health care professions
• New technology
• Podcasting
• Evaluation
• Student experience of e-learning

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Quality Assurance

• Project teams supported by Malcolm Simon
• Memorandum of agreement with phased release
  funding
• Requirement to present to peers
• Progress reports to E-Learning Group

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Integration

• E-Learning Group
• Technical integration by ILS re Portal
• Technical staff from ILS on project groups
• Staff Development Forum
• Multi-School involvement in most projects
• Evaluation project
• Malcolm Simon!

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Key Strengths

• Pervasive
• Focussed
• Managed
• Evolution not revolution
• Organic change
• School led
• Pragmatic (but with some vision)

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Challenges

• Keeping the focus
• Ensuring links to new Information Estates
  Strategies-currently under development
• Multi-School projects
• Implications for organisational structures?
• Understanding the costs and impacts

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SUMMARY

• The management perspective
• Leadership through strategy
• Facilitate money support
• Encourage listen, hear, respond celebrate
• Structured diversity
• Making connections across the organisation at all
  levels

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• Managed diversity? a fools paradise?