Programme support event
Employer responsive provision: Designing, delivering and supporting flexible learning opportunities
Event Cross- programme meeting
Date 27 May 2010
Venue Lakeside Centre, Aston University, Birmingham
Aims
- Enable JISC and other related projects to share emerging lessons and learning around the use of technology to support the design, delivery, support and assessment of flexible learning opportunities for work-based and work-placed learners; and engaging with employers / professional bodies / other partners in this context
- Consult with projects around relevant emerging outputs from projects working in related fields, including the HEFCE funded HE5P projects
- Through discussion, to develop our collective understanding of the issues in this area and identify potential ways forward
Participants
This programme meeting is open to projects from the following programmes (maximum of 2 per project):
- JISC Lifelong Learning and Workforce Development programme
- JISC Curriculum Design programme
- JISC Curriculum Delivery programme
- JISC Business and Community Engagement programme
- HEFCE funded HE5P projects
- HEFCE funded Employer Engagement projects
Agenda
| Time | Session |
|---|
10.00
10.20 |
Welcome and Introduction to the day (PowerPoint)
Lisa Gray, JISC |
10.20
11.50 |
Project showcase and networking
Project Posters |
11.50
12.40 |
Keynote presentations
|
12.40
13.00 |
Small group discussions |
13.00
13.50 |
Lunch |
13.50
14.50 |
Parallel sessions
|
14.50
15.15 |
Feedback |
15.15
15.30 |
Synthesising and communicating project outputs: The Design Studio
Marianne Sheppard, JISC InfoNet |
15.30
16.00 |
Reflections, opportunities and policiy implications
Prof. Jonathan Garnett, Director of the Institute for Work Based Learning, Middlesex University |