The Learning and Teaching Experts Group Meeting

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The Learning and Teaching Experts Group Meeting

• The Watershed Media Centre, Bristol, 26th March
  2008

Joint Information Systems Committee
Supporting education and research
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Welcome

• Special welcome to our new members
• Focus on the learner
• Housekeeping
• Fire alarm at 11 am
• 1300 Lunch
• 1515 Tea Break
• Delegate Packs
• Technology-Rich Physical Space Design An
  overview of JISC Activities. Student Expectations
  Briefing paper, JISC Inform,Project summaries,
  and expenses claim form
• Feedback on the venue!

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Overview of the day

• Theme 1 - Learning from the learners
• 1040 An update on the Learner Experiences of
  e-Learning Programme
• Rhona Sharpe, Support and Synthesis Project,
  Oxford Brookes University
• 1100 An update on the latest JISC funded Ipsos
  MORI research on student expectations
• Charles Hutchings, Market Research Manager,
  JISC
• 1120 Group discussion
• 1200 Feedback from group discussion
• 1215 Sounds Good
• Bob Rotheram, National Teaching Fellow, Leeds
  Metropolitan University.
• 1300 Lunch

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Overview of the day

• Theme 2 Supporting learners
• 1345 Supporting learners Projects from the HE
  in FE programme will be discussing their work
• WALES Prof. Tony Toole, University of Glamorgan
• KASTANET Andrew Williams, Kingston College.
• WOLF Dr Sahm Nikoi, Leicester College
• 2 x 20 minute roundtable discussions
• 1430 Effective Practice with e-Portfolios
• Lisa Gray, JISC, Jacquie Kelly, JISC InfoNet
  and Ros Smith, Communications Consultant
• 315 Short tea break
• 330 Update from the e-Learning Programme
• Sarah Knight, JISC
• 400 Close

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Session 1
An update on the Learner Experiences of
e-Learning Programme Rhona Sharpe, Support and
Synthesis Project, Oxford Brookes University
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Group discussion
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Session 2
An update on the latest JISC funded Ipsos MORI
research on student expectations Charles
Hutchings, Market Research Manager, JISC
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The e-Learning Programme

• An update

Joint Information Systems Committee
Supporting education and research
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e-Learning Programme 2008-2012

• The aim of the JISC e-learning programme is to
  enable UK further and higher education to create
  a better learning environment for all learners,
  wherever and however they study, in order to
  realise the vision

• The vision is of a world where learners,
  teachers, researchers and wider institutional
  stakeholders use technology to enhance the
  overall educational experience by improving
  flexibility and creativity and by encouraging
  comprehensive and diverse personal, high quality
  learning, teaching and research.

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By 2012 within this environment

• Learners and teachers are using a mixture of
  institutionally-provided and user-owned 
  technologies in a confident and effective manner
  
• Course teams are effectively exploiting the
  available technology in all aspects of course
  design, development and delivery
• Technology rich physical and online learning
  teaching and research spaces are accessible and
  flexibly designed to reflect an understanding of
  the learning styles preferences and diversity of
  their users
• A wide range of learning resources is freely
  available, easily discovered and routinely
  re-used

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By 2012 within this environment

• There is widespread deployment by institutions of
  flexible technical infrastructures that take
  advantage of service oriented approaches and of
  shared services
• Institutional decision makers are making
  realistic and effective choices about the
  deployment of proprietary and/or open source
  software
• National, sectoral, and institutional e-learning
  strategies in further and higher education are
  aligned and agencies are working confidently in
  partnership for the benefit of the whole sector.

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Communication and Dissemination Update

• Use of Technology to Support Admissions to Higher
  Education Briefing paper - http//www.jisc.ac.uk/p
  ublications/publications/bpadmissionsv1.aspx
• Technology-Rich Physical Space Design An
  overview of JISC Activities - http//www.jisc.ac.u
  k/publications/publications/bpelearnspacesv1.aspx
  
• Distributed e-Learning Regional Pilot stories
  Launching at the JISC conference on 15th April
• Tangible Benefits of e-Learning Does investment
  yield interest? - Launching at the JISC
  conference on 15th April

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Opportunities for funding

• Just started
• RepRODUCE 19 project funded to re-develop
  course module using external content.
• Just released
• Identity management for lifelong learning in UK
  higher and further education (closing date 2
  April)
• Exploration of the role of e-portfolios in
  formative and summative assessment practices
  (closing date 8 April)
• Study on timetabling and resource scheduling
  (closing date 9 April)
• Formative Assessment Process Modelling (Closing
  date 16 April)
• Consultant(s) to plan, deliver and host an online
  conference for the JISC e-Learning Programme
  (Closing date 18 April)
• Coming up end April 2008
• Curriculum re-design call
• Open rolling call

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Thank you for your attendance!
Next meeting Wednesday 9 July 2008, Birmingham