REMOTE High Tech Distance Learning VOCATIONAL PORRIDGE

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REMOTE High Tech Distance Learning VOCATIONAL
PORRIDGE
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• Presented by
• Dr. Brian Hill
• Principal Lecturer in Manufacturing Engineering
• Centre of Excellence

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Presentation Outline

• The Problem
• Achievement of Excellence
• Value and benefit to the North East Institute
• Value and benefit to the Wider Community
• New developments and different approaches

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The Problem

• Prisons wish to train their inmates in skills
  that are transferable to the world of work.
• Difficult to find vocational teachers and
  lecturers who are able and willing to go into
  the prison scenario.
• Institute looked for an innovative way to use a
  virtual classroom approach using ASCOT
  CourseMaster product (this allows a tutor to
  talk to, and see, the students via an ISDN
  telephone line and share a software application).

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ACHIEVEMENT OF EXCELLENCE (1)

• Nov 1996 Application made for European Funding.
• Mar - Sept 1997 early investigative work
  carried out.
• Oct - Dec 1998 CAD Team involved in further
  research including a link from London to
  Dublin.
• Jan - Mar 1998 Negotiations with ASCOT.
• Mar - Jun 1998 Purchase Installation of
  CourseMaster
• Sept - Oct 1998 Testing of CourseMaster
  system, training for staff and production of
  material for delivery. Recruitment of first
  batch of inmates in the prison to study on
  the programme.
• Nov 1998 LAUNCH of the Programme.

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ACHIEVEMENT OF EXCELLENCE (2)

• Nov 1998 - May 1999 - Delivery of AutoCAD
  Programme
• June 1999 - Completion of first course with five
  inmates receiving CG 4351-01 Computer Aided
  Draughting and Design using AutoCAD
  Certificates.
• Aug 1999 - Recruitment of second batch of
  inmates.
• Sept 1999 - June 2000 - Delivery of AutoCAD
  training.
• May 2000 - CAD Team travelled to London to
  receive a UK BEACON Award.
• June 2000 - Completion of second course with four
  students receiving CG 4351-01 CAD Certificates.

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ACHIEVEMENT OF EXCELLENCE (3)

• Aug 2000 - Recruitment of third batch of inmates
  in the prison to study on the programme.
• Sept 2000- June 2001 - Delivery of AutoCAD
  training to third batch of six students.
• Oct 2000 - CAD Team travelled to Paris to
  research a link up with a French Company
  (AFIDE) who were developing a new web based
  delivery system using NetTutor for AutoCAD
  and were seeking a partner in the project.
• Nov 2000 - Second Application made for European
  Funding.
• May 2001 - CAD Team receive a BT ICT Award.
• May 2001 - Second European Fund Bid successful.

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ACHIEVEMENT OF EXCELLENCE (4)

• June 2001 - Completion of third course with four
  students receiving City Guilds 4351-01 CAD
  Certificates.
• Aug 2001 - Recruitment of fourth batch of inmates
  in the prison to study on the programme.
• Sept 2001- June 2002 - Delivery of AutoCAD
  training to fourth batch of six students.
• July 2001- Feb 2002 - Researching, tendering and
  purchasing of CNC Machine tools for Phase 2 of
  the project. Purchase of NetTutor for up
  grading existing link.
• May 2002 - Installation of NetTutor System.
• June 2001 - Completion of fourth course with six
  students receiving City Guilds 4351-01 CAD
  Certificates.
• Sept - Oct 2002 - Testing and retraining of
  staff. Recruitment of a fifth batch of inmates
  to study on the programme.

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VALUE AND BENEFIT TO THE INSTITUTION (1)

• Project bonded a team of lecturers together to
  research a leading edge method of delivery and
  learning in a virtual classroom.
• The team won a UK BEACON AWARD for Colleges of
  Further and Higher Education entitled The BBC
  Education Award for the use of Television, Video
  and Audio media in the Delivery of Distance
  Learning. We were the first college in Northern
  Ireland to gain the award.
• The team won a BT ICT Award for its pioneering
  work in using telephone communications to further
  education and training.
• A very close working relationship with the
  Educational Unit in the prison has been
  established.

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VALUE AND BENEFIT TO THE INSTITUTION (2)

• An international partnership with a French
  Company started to develop as the team sought to
  allow exchange of techniques to be carried out.
  The team visited the offices of the company in
  Paris and held exploratory talks.
• The Mechanical Engineering Section was recognised
  a Regional Centre of Excellence for the
  Manufacturing Industry status by government.
• Programme Manager for Mechanical Engineering was
  successfully nominated for the EDEXCEL
  Outstanding Lecturer Award 2000.
• The team has now the knowledge, capability and
  the will to undertake applications for further
  European monies for Curriculum and Research
  Projects.

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VALUE AND BENEFIT TO WIDER COMMUNITY (1)

• The programme has been integral to prisoners
  preparation for release as the inmates trained on
  the programme have now got modern industrial
  employable skills.
• A new transferable skill has been gained by the
  prisoners as most of them had no previous
  experience of CAD.
• Twenty one inmates now have a Level 3
  qualification in the use of AutoCAD, an
  industrial CAD software used extensively in the
  Engineering and Construction industries.

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VALUE AND BENEFIT TO WIDER COMMUNITY (2)

• The Prison now has an expectation in that they
  can hook into more programmes of this nature.
• The Institute is now seen as a centre of
  teaching, learning and research for such
  programmes.
• The technology used in the project is such that
  no other similar programme has been attempted in
  the United Kingdom. Some hybrids of the
  technology have been identified, but none
  directly, as far as we are aware, are in
  operation in this particular mode.

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NEW DEVELOPMENTS/APPROACHES

• Develop new provision opportunities e.g.
  3-Dimensional Design using AutoCAD or Using
  AutoCAD AEC in the Built Environment.
• To extend the Video Conferencing side to allow
  interaction of prison inmates with Institute
  students.
• Another Prison Education Unit within the province
  is now investigating replicating the system.
• Possibility for other prison authorities within
  the UK to invest in such a set up.
• To facilitate access by the Prison Education
  Service to Machine Tools in Our Institute using a
  reverse of the current process. The students
  would be able to see the machine tool actually
  cutting the component.

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Beacon Award Winners 1999-2000 2000-2001
Manufacturing Engineering CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE
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