Foundation Degree South West Learning Materials Development

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Foundation Degree South West Learning Materials
Development

• Jane Rowe Project Manager

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Overview

• Introductions
• Background to the project
• Gateway To Study website
• Materials under development
• Where do we go from here?
• Questions

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Whos Who

• Jane Rowe Project Manager
• Sally Wilks Senior Learning Support Advisor
• Flea Palmer Learning Support Advisor

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Background to the project

• to provide additional academic support for
  students on FdA programmes in Creative Digital
  Arts/New Media and Tourism at nine colleges
  delivering Plymouth and Bournemouth-validated
  programmes

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HE/FE institutions involved in FDSW

• Fd Tourism
• Cornwall College
• Somerset College of Arts and Technology
• Bournemouth and Poole College
• Weymouth College/Kingston Maurward College,
  Dorchester
• Fd CDA/Graphic Design
• Plymouth College of Art and Design
• Somerset College of Arts and Technology
• Yeovil College
• Salisbury College

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Aims

• To enhance range of teaching resources available
  to staff and students
• To foster more independent learning among
  Foundation Degree students to ease transition to
  top up
• To build on collaboration of college and
  university subject staff started at curriculum
  design phase

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Strategy

• Networking with teaching and support staff across
  the institutions
• Development of website to host materials
• Commissioning of materials

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Creating the framework to underpin sharing of
resources

• Securing agreement from college management to
  involvement of staff
• Legal underpinning ownership issues
• Proposal process
• Subject evaluators

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Networking college visitsKey issues

• Heavy teaching commitments of staff
• Students need for flexible delivery
• Concerns about transition need for greater
  emphasis on independent learning
• Need for resources tailored to programmes but
  easily customised by staff

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Launch of Gateway_To_Study websitewww.plymouth.ac
.uk/gateway_to_studywww.bournemouth.ac.uk/gateway
_to_study

• Student support materials developed and adapted
  for partner college students
• Study skills materials One Stop Shop approach
• Researched links sections for each subject
• Customisable work placement materials
• Subject specific resources to support delivery of
  particular modules

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Subject resources under development

• CDA/New Media/Graphic Design
• Professional Studies 1 and 2 (commissioned)
• Proposals Introduction to Graphic Design, colour
  theory, audio, typography
• Tourism
• Business Environment I and II (commissioned)
• Tourism Studies (proposed)

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CDA/Graphic Design Resources in production
Professional Studies 1 and 2

• Structure and operation of media companies
• Running a small production company
• Aspects of media law
• Budgeting for media production
• Commissioning procedures
• Pitching for media work
• Working as a freelance
• Health and safety

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Professional Studies materials

• Subject information
• Relevant case study material
• Interactive content and links to websites
• Activities to promote active learning
• Assessment
• Available April 2003

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TourismResources in productionBusiness
Environment 1 and 2

• Series of units based on learning outcomes
  underpinning each module
• Business Environment I David Eeles (South Devon
  College)
• Business Environment II Paul Brunt (University
  of Plymouth)

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Tourism materials

• Introduction and reading list
• Study notes incorporating links to other websites
  and research tasks
• Student response facility
• Tutor response to compare
• Suggested exercises and assignment titles
• Available May 2003

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What FDSW can do for practitioners

• Access to extended range of resources
• Financial incentives for development of
  new/adapted materials
• Guidance in writing materials for web-based
  delivery
• Technical assistance

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Where do we go from here?

• Continue to publicise site to practitioners and
  direct to students
• Generate feedback on materials as theyre
  uploaded (email, focus groups)
• Evaluation report July 2003

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• Jane Rowe
• Project Manager
• Foundation Degrees Learning Materials
  Development
• University of Plymouth
• Tel [phone]
• E-mail jrowe_at_plymouth.ac.uk

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Questions