RSC London managers event

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RSC London managers event

• NIACE
• Eta De Cicco,
• ICT and Learning Team

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External drivers over last decade
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Furtherresearch
E-Guides, Management Support, WBL and Offenders
No specificcontent
Review e-strategies
1 Year ACL e-learning Initiative
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What are the restraining forces?
e.g. Cuts/redundancies
Funding
e.g. Inspection or restructure
e.g. not paying sessional staff to attend
training
Internal crisis or other priorities
Policy issues
e.g. Purchasing policyor IT support
restrictions
Not enough equipment to make use of e-learning
interventions
Slow corporate processes
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Balance between
For all initiatives, not just e-learning
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Findings funding e-learning
Link initiatives to organisational objectives
Strong leadership
VISION
Top-down, Bottom-up
Collaboration, aggregation
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VISION Facilitate the emotional and political
barriers

• Active involvement
• Groundswell of support
• Senior management consensus
• Personal staff commitment
• Visible stakeholder support

Rational
Political

• Clear vision/understanding
• Case for change
• Plan of activities
• Agreed way forward

Emotional
These are the difficult bits

• Enthusiasm
• Appreciation of need
• Clear role(s)
• Engagement
• Willingness to act

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VISION Flexibly support the emotional
rollercoaster
Mobilise
Discover
Deepen
Develop
Deliver
and sustain!
Confidence
ve

• We have a plan to success
• We have an answer

Emotional State

• We have some news

We have a solution

• There is a solution
• We have some options

• Its difficult
• It is not the best news

• Not sure how to solve
• It looks like this.

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Pedagogy
Promote blended learning, not wholly ICT
The point is learning, not teaching
sustainability
Integrate within mainstream delivery and QA
processes
Technology to promote more effective learning
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Economics
E-learning is not cheap
Economies of scale require large learner cohorts
or aggregation
sustainability
Identify the intended return on investment
Sustainable solutions must be supportable from
core institutional funding
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Short term priorities use inspection and self
assessment
Apply technological solution only when it adds
value
Helps work to your strengths
Helps address weaknesses