Anne Vallins

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• Anne Vallins
• Centre Manager

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Making IT happen in Business and Management

• The BEST Introduction
• Discussion of ways in which you can make IT
  happen
• How can BEST help?
• Consider how resources introduced today might be
  used

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The Business Education Support Team

• Higher Education Academy
• A UK national initiative
• Funded by the HEFCs of England, Wales, Scotland
  the Department of Education in Northern Ireland
• 24 subject based centres
• Aim To provide information and support to
  academics on learning teaching from a
  discipline perspective

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The Business Education Support Team

• Works to enhance the teaching of business,
  management and accountancy by communicating and
  disseminating ideas, good practice and resources
  throughout the academic community
• Partnership between
• School of Management University of East Anglia
• Glasgow Caledonian University Business School
• Open University Business School

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Activities

• Encouraging research in LT
• Refereed journal
• Teaching research grants
• Workshops and seminars
• Annual conference
• Good practice guides/briefing papers/BEST stories
• Visits to institutions
• Fact finding or seminars
• Provide feedback from community to funders on
  national priorities

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Making IT Happen HOW?

• Learning that is facilitated by online resources
• Using a VLE
• Computer aided assessment
• Distance learning course
• ...............

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Making IT Happen WHY?

• UK governments widening participation
  programme has increased class sizes recruited
  students with divers needs
• More student have jobs or family commitments
• Have difficulties in attending classes
• Students cannot be support individually as in the
  past
• Institutions hit financially if students drop out

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Making IT Happen WHY?

• Institutional purchase of VLE or MLE
• Expectation and decree that this will be used
• Mistaken belief that this will save money and
  automatically lead to student centred learning
• ? Belief in the opportunities for an enhanced
  learning experience

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Making IT Happen Opportunities for enhanced
learning learner support

• Information unambiguous and stable
• Notice board, collation of regulations,
  deadlines, assessment criteria etc
• Supportive
• Feedback on work, FAQs, sample essays marks
• Formative assessment
• Facilitation of collaborative work
• Peer support and discussion monitored or not
• Selected resources
• Monitoring of student engagement

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Making IT Happen the downside

• For lecturer
• Learning curve for preparation
• Front-loaded steep learning curve
• Changes the dynamics of tutor support
• VLEs can be constraining
• SENDA issues
• For Student
• Reduced personal contact
• May have access problems
• Cost of printing

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How can BEST help?

• Website
• Access to online resources
• Access to banks of case studies e.g. ECCH
• Assess to electronic journals
• Easy searching of huge range of resources
• Events
• Annual conference
• Workshops
• Good practice exchanges

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How can BEST help?

• Teaching support
• Access to new tutor resources
• E-moderating courses
• Publications
• Stories of best practice
• Good practice guides
• Journal papers
• Enquiry service
• Best_at_uea.ac.uk

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BEST Story Creating a Web Site for Studying
Strategic Management

• Wanted flexibility to change material, add new
  links and respond to student needs quickly
• University could not deliver the technical
  flexibility required so used a DIY approach
• Provides useful links to the wider academic
  community on the internet
• Use of internet technology as a means of reducing
  costs and facilitating radical transformation of
  business and university systems
• Colin Clarke-Hill and Ismo Kuhanen University of
  Gloucestershire and formerly at Plymouth
  University

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BEST Story Hot Technology, Cool Academics! An
intranet for Brighton Business School

• Could an intranet be used in an educational
  setting to enhance student access to the range of
  information relating to their studies?
• Cautious view of learning technologies
• No great promises made
• Long period of adaptation expected and cultural
  shift required
• Stirred debate about the role of electronic
  resources in the Business School
• Becci Newton, Cameron Paine and Stephen Flowers,
  Brighton Business School, University of Brighton

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Best Story Using learning technology resources
in teaching management accounting

• 7 year development and success in integrating
  learning technology resources into teaching
• Continual adaptation needed to enhance students
  learning experience
• Student demand for and pedagogic benefit from
  providing a rich and varied learning environment
• Greg Stoner, Department of Accounting and
  Finance, University of Glasgow

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IJME Papers

• Models of eLearning Technology Promise vs
  Learner Needs
• A report on the delivering of off-campus granular
  e-learning opportunities using Project SMILE (SME
  Micro-LEarning)
• Virtual Learning Environments in Business and
  Management A Review of Some Recent Developments
• Using Virtual Learning Environments to Facilitate
  New Learning Relationships

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Briefing Papers (online)

• The Use of Computer-Based Assessment
• Virtual Learning Environments

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Consider......

• How might you make use of the resources you have
  seen today?
• What resources do you currently use?
• What type of resources would you find useful?
• How will you make IT happen for business and
  management in your institution?

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• a.vallins_at_uea.ac.uk
• best_at_uea.ac.uk
• 01603 592312