eSupport for WorkBased Learning in Foundation Degrees

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eSupport for Work-Based Learning in Foundation
Degrees

• Project Director Prof Mark Stiles
• Project Manager Vicki Watkin
• Project Co-ordinator Fleur Corfield
• http//www.staffs.ac.uk/COSE/SURFWBL

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• Main Project Partners
• Staffordshire University
• Stoke-on-Trent College
• Shrewsbury College of Arts and Technology
• Burton College
• Supporting Partner
• Foundation Degree Forward

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The Starting Point

• Contacting tutors and organisations involved in
  Work Based Learning
• Collecting, and reviewing existing resources
• Reviewing Processes and Policies involved in Work
  Based Learning

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Focus

• Work-based Learning
• SURF Courses mainly FDs
• Generic WBL Resources
• Subject specific exemplars
• For use across SURF
• For submission to JORUM
• SURF and Institutional Processes for this

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Materials

• Issues
• Getting Materials
• Employer Access to materials
• Original Content
• Standard Microsoft Tools
• New Content
• Tools include eXe and Dreamweaver

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Supporting the Learner

• Including
• Careers Skills and Personal Qualities, Values
  and Motivation, Preferred Work Activities
• Key Skills Learning Styles and Reflection,
  Writing Skills, Harvard Referencing System
• The Work Based Learner Agreement
• Writing the WB Project Report
• Use of materials in courses
• Reviewing access to materials for all students

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Outputs

• Resources in Jorum and SURF repositories as
• HTML
• IMS Packages
• Word documents
• Reports covering
• Resourcing and Support of WBL
• Policy Organisational Implications of
  Resourcing Supporting WBL in a Consortium

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Examples
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Quotes A Tutor

• The Work Based Learning Agreement
• For the documentation of the Foundation Degrees
  it was essential to have a suitable Work Based
  Learning Agreement...one was available in the
  shared resources, and it would seem much
  consideration has been put into its writing, this
  one has been incorporated into the FD documents,
  and was used successfully in the validation
  process.
• Rowena Beighton-Dykes Coordinator for Foundation
  Degrees for the Creative Cultural Industries
  (Staffordshire University)

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Quotes A Student

• The Harvard Referencing Model
• The quizzes were also good to make me aware of
  the punctuation for each of the parts to the
  reference and how to lay them out. It was really
  helpful for my assignment work and... I know a
  lot of students used it in the later stages of
  their courses.
• Kate Kelly student PGCE, Burton College.

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Quotes Tutor

• The Harvard Referencing Object
• Students seemed to have less trouble with
  referencing now we are using this learning object
  compared to the publications we had available in
  the past.
• Julia Hardwick teaching lecturer, Burton
  College. BA Cert Ed BA Hons

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Where next?

• SURF WBL-WAY
• JISC Capital Programme
• Same partners plus Harvest Road
• Build on SURF WBL to engage employers
• Build on SUNIWE DeL Pilot
• Using Web Services and uPortal to provide
  individualised access to WBL resources held in a
  repository

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Thank You

• Contact
• m.j.stiles_at_staffs.ac.uk
• v.l.watkin_at_staffs.ac.uk
• f.m.corfield_at_staffs.ac.uk
• For LDI reports and papers see
• www.staffs.ac.uk/COSE/cosenew/reportsandpapers.ht
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