The Higher Education Academy enhancing the student experience

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The Academy / JISC CollaborationA partnership in
support of Higher Education
Sharon Waller - Higher Education
Academy Academy/JISC Collaboration Team Leader
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The Academy/JISC Collaboration

• Collaboration team established to work with wider
  Collaboration Network (March 2007-2009)
• 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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Mapping the territory recognizing 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 and regional support centres
• 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)
  sub-themes
• Learner to learner communications
• Learner to tutor/staff communications
• Learner access to resources

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Session aims and objectives

• Reflect on
• Challenges and priorities in the use of
  technology to support the student learning
  experience for
• HE community generally
• your discipline community
• Merits of existing Academy/JISC resources to
  support the student learning experience
• Importance of subject-specific resources
• Additional development needs/support requirements

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How do you usually find resources?

• Please write down
• 3 methods/sources in order of importance that
  you regularly use to locate resources to support
  learning, teaching and/or assessment
• e.g. professional body, subject centre,
  institution, repository, search engine, etc.
• why you use those particular methods/sources

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Discussion Challenges and priorities

• what do you consider to be the challenges and
  priorities which arise from using social media
  technologies to support the student learning
  experience? for
• the HE community generally?
• your discipline community?
• what additional support/developments are needed
  to address these challenges?

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Discussion Challenges and priorities

• which arise from using social media technologies
  to support the student learning experience?
• e.g. for different phases of the student life
  cycle
• what additional support/developments are needed
  to address these challenges?

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Some Academysocial media projects / resources

• Conference papers, case studies
• Pathfinder project IMPALA (Informal Mobile
  Podcasting And Learning Application)
• transferable model, 5 HEIs,10 case studies
• SIG wiki podcasting for pedagogical purposes
• IMPALA4T supporting student transition
• ICS wiki supporting new academic staff
• Economics Network
• Guide Using blogs in Economics
• English and PALATINE
• Theatron 3 Educational Undertakings in Second
  Life

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Some JISC social media projects/resources

• Users and Innovations Personalising Technologies
• Academic Writing Empowered by Socially Mediated
  Online Environments (AWESOME) Dissertation
  Environment
• Alternate Reality Games for Orientation,
  Socialisation and Induction (ARGOSI)
• eTutor - Education Through Ubiquitous
  Technologies and On-line Resources
• Problem-based Learning in Virtual Interactive
  Educational Worlds (PREVIEW)
• Advisory Services
• Regional Support Centres
• events, blogs and wikis

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Discussionmerits of existing resources

• how effective/useful do you think Academy/JISC
  resources developed to support the student
  learning experience are from
• a generic perspective?
• a discipline-specific perspective?
• should funding be used to develop generic
  resources which can easily be repurposed/adapted
  for a variety of disciplines?
• how can the Academy/JISC raise awareness of and
  increase use of resources they develop or fund
  the development of?

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What do we mean by resources?

• Broad interpretation including, but not
  necessarily restricted to
• expertise advice and guidance
• events
• access to networks, communities, special interest
  groups
• audio-visual
• case studies
• course materials (ready made and/or capable of
  being adapted)
• publications e.g. effective practice guides,
  journal articles, project reports
• reusable learning objects
• tools e.g. interactive white boards, question
  banks, simulations, scenarios, software,
  templates,
• tutorials
• web 2.0 technologies e.g. blogs, folksonomies,
  wikis

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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
• Louisa Dale l.dale_at_jisc.ac.uk
• http//www.jisc.ac.uk/aboutus/partnerships/he_acad
  emy.aspx