Priority themes from pre-meeting questionnaires

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Priority themes from pre-meeting questionnaires
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Facilitating progression

• Provision of online advice and an e-portfolio to
  FE and schools arts students to help them to put
  together an appropriate portfolio to gain access
  to HE arts degrees.
• University of the Arts, London
• Initiatives aiding transfer from HE to employment
• Would like to build on Lifelong Learning
  Networks, Regional Skills Partnerships, and the
  Joint Progression Strategy
• Systems which enhance progression between
  institutions

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Facilitating progression

• Working with other providers to create learning
  pathways between institutions and programmes so
  as to assist student progression
• Open University in London
• Building on work with London East Thames Gateway
  Aimhigher
• Interoperability between partner e-learning
  systems
• Making use of JISC e-learning tools and
  technologies
• Working with schools to facilitate progression
  working with students and staff building
  grounded projects that continue long-term
• Look at retention and achievement as well as
  progression involve LEA, LSC, HEIs in local
  support mechanisms

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Sharing resources and collaborative teaching

• Sharing learning resources across institutions
• Explore how eLearning systems can be used across
  institutions
• Creating collaborative course/programme provision
• Foundation degrees especially ICT
• Building on NTI and HEIF 2 knowledge exchange
  networks

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Sharing resources and collaborative teaching

• Subject focus
• ESOL
• Foreign languages
• Multicultural understanding
• Essential, basic and key skills
• Technology, business, numerate disciplines
• Facilitating sharing content, assessment and
  tools between institutions eg FE-HE,
  ACL/WBL-FE/HE.
• Helping students to make the transition between
  these learning contexts

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Sharing resources and collaborative teaching

• Kaleidoscope project repository of materials
  for basic and key skills for schools and colleges
• Looking for HE partners
• Adaptation and reuse of learning objects across
  different institutions
• London Met have experience in learning object
  reuse, and database of sharable objects
• Are looking for partners

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Supporting the independent lifelong learner

• Supporting work-based learning
• Involvement of older people and disabled people
• Accessibility and support for young people with
  learning difficulties
• Empowerment of learners to aid transitions
  between formal and informal learning throughout
  life