The Higher Education Academy enhancing the student experience

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The Academy / JISC CollaborationA partnership
to support Higher Education
Academy JISC Collaboration Team Jo Smedley
JISC Team Leader Sharon Waller Academy Team
Leader
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Business case for the collaboration

• Support implementation of the HEFCEs e-Learning
  strategy 2005
• Develop closer working relationships between the
  two organisations
• Simplify access to the range of e-learning
  resources and services provided by JISC and the
  Academy
• Provide coherent and co-ordinated support to the
  Higher Education sector in e-learning
• Identify gaps in current provision

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Operationalising the Collaboration

• 2005
• Memorandum of Understanding January
• HEFCE e-learning strategy March
• March 2006 - March 2009 Collaboration initiative
• March 2007 March 2009
• Collaboration team (Jo Smedley (JISC Team Leader)
  Sharon Waller (Academy Team Leader))
• Established to work with Collaboration Network
• Collaboration Network Academy and JISC
• i.e. Academy Subject Centre Network and network
  of JISC Services and Regional Support Centres
  (RSCs)

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Mapping the territory recognising respective
strengths

• JISC and the Academy bring a wealth of
  complementary expertise and resources
• JISC
• development programmes, tools, resources,
  content, repositories, research etc
• advisory services
• Academy
• pedagogy, overarching LT context, resources,
  professional development, research, staff
  development focus etc
• discipline focus through subject centre network

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Mapping the landscape existing resources

• Aims
• to identify
• good practice,
• the impact and usefulness of existing resources,
• possible duplication/overlap
• to provide strategic advice and guidance to JISC
  and the Academy on future development areas.

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Campaigns and their methodology

• Use of technology to support
• Assessment (Sept 07 Jan 08)
• Academic staff (Feb May 08)
• Work-related learning (Jun 08 Jan 09)
• The student learning experience (Jun 08 Jan 09)
  
• Methodology
• Stage 1 gathering information sector
  consultation
• Stage 2 synthesis and gap analysis
• Stage 3 developing appropriate information
  vehicles
• Stage 4 providing strategic advice

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Session aims and objectives

• Reflect on
• Challenges in the use of technology to support
  learning, teaching and assessment for
• HE community generally
• different staff groups and discipline communities
• Merits of existing Academy/JISC resources to
  support academic staff
• Additional development needs/support requirements

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Challenges In your opinion

• 1a) What challenges do academic/teaching staff
  face in using technology effectively?
• 1b) are there particular challenges for different
  groups of staff e.g.
• new staff,
• experienced staff,
• part-time staff,
• graduate teaching assistants,
• PRS communities and other discipline groups,
• any others?

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Resources In your opinion

• 2) What types of resources enable academic staff
  to use technology effectively to enhance
  learning, teaching and assessment? (and why?)
• 3) How useful are the resources developed by the
  Academy and/or JISC to academic staff and/or
  those with a learning and teaching support role?
  
• 4)What additional resources do academic/learning
  and teaching support staff need that aren't
  currently available?

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Increasing awareness and uptake of Academy/JISC
resourcesIn your opinion

• 5) What are the best ways of -  
• a) raising staff awareness of available
  Academy/JISC resources and support?   
• b) increasing uptake of Academy/JISC resources
  and support?

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Further information

• Academy
• Sharon Waller sharon.waller_at_heacademy.ac.uk
• http//www.heacademy.ac.uk/ourwork/learning/elearn
  ing/collaboration
• JISC
• Jo Smedley j.smedley_at_jisc.ac.uk
• http//www.jisc.ac.uk/aboutus/partnerships/he_acad
  emy.aspx