Northern Ireland Integrated Managed Learning Environment

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Northern Ireland Integrated Managed Learning
Environment
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Consortium Members

• Belfast Institute of F HE (Lead)
• North Down and Ards Institute of F HE
• North West Institute of F HE
• Queens University of Belfast
• University of Ulster

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Intended Project Deliverables

• Regional Integrated MLE for the NI tertiary
  sector
• Tools to build a secure regional MLE
• Demonstrators of portable courses,materials
• Report on the effectiveness of IMS
• Case studies of impact of MLE on Business
  Processes
• Reports on outcomes, impact effectiveness

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What the project will cover

• Develop smooth seamless information exchange
  between FE, HE
• Enhanced information services for students
• Eg Foundation degrees, Franchised degrees,HNDs,
  Access Courses, A Levels, Vocational
  Qualifications
• Sharing resources real and virtual
• Virtual cohorts educational pathways, careers
  advice, information portals, showcases
• Monitoring and supporting student progress

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Business and Technical Processes

• This project new MIS spur to review business
  processes
• Protocols for information posting exchange
• Enable sharing of resources, regional discussion
  lists, showcase for students work
• Unique student identifier
• Credit Transfer Scheme - NICATS
• Authentication of users and security of data

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Project Team

• 1 Project Manager
• 1 Curriculum Officer
• 2 MIS Developers
• Consultancy / short term secondments from FE and
  HE sector
• Team based at QUB
• DEL support (MIS and Curriculum contacts)

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Project Steering Group

• Project Director (Alan Dummigan)
• Experienced senior staff from consortium
• 1 rep from RSCni
• External advisor (DEL)
• External advisor (ANIC)
• Other co-opted experts

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Timescale

• Gearing up June 2002 August 2002
• Analysis, design, preparation for
  implementation Aug 2002 Jan 2003
• Prototyping and proof of concept Feb 2003 July
  2003
• Embedding Widening Concept Aug 2003 Jan 2004
• Implementation across consortium Feb 2004 July
  2004
• Further implementation across consortium Aug 2004
  March 2005

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Complementary regional Initiatives

• Regional approach to new MIS- interoperability
• NI MAN the means to deliver project objectives
• NICATS seamless/single credit framework
• Regional development of VLEs
• Regional support centre RSCni