JISC

Welcome and Introduction to the day (PowerPoint)
Sarah Knight, e-Learning Programme Manager

Supporting Learners in a Digital Age (PowerPoint)
SLiDA Case Study I (PowerPoint)
SLiDA Case Study II (pdf)
Rhona Sharpe, Greg Benfield, Oxford Brookes University and Judy Hardy, University of Edinburgh

The Supporting Learners in a Digital Age project is investigating how UK further and higher education institutions are supporting the development of effective learners in a digital age through the implementation of relevant institution-wide strategies and policies. These will be strategies and policies which embed technology to enhance the learning experience and ensure provision for the development of learning literacies for a digital age. The project is producing 10 institutional case studies and a final report with recommendations for further and higher education on how to develop effective institution-wide strategies and practices which better support effective learners in a digital age. This session will provide an overview of emerging findings and offer experts an opportunity to feed in ideas on how best to present the evidence so as to support institutions with the development of their own strategies for this area.

Members Showcase

Members from the Experts Group are invited to showcase their work or invite feedback on specific areas they are working within. The session will run as two 20 minute roundtable discussions offering members the opportunity of attending two of the three sessions.

• Session 1 – An update from the TLRP Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) Programme
  Richard Noss, Director of the TLRP-TEL Programme, Institute of Education
  
• Session 2 – MOTILL: Mobile Technologies in Lifelong Learning (PowerPoint)
  Agnes Kukulska-Hulme and Alice Peasgood, The Open University
  The EU-funded MOTILL project (2009-10) was tasked with bringing together evidence on the impact of mobile technologies on lifelong learning by considering mobile learning research and practice in light of a developing learning ethic characterized by increasing self-directedness and marked by states of transition between different life stages and learning contexts. The work was presented to policymakers and is now available on the web (http://www.motill.eu). The project team selected, tagged and reviewed over 50 publications to create the Scientific Annotated Review Database; developed an Evaluation Grid to assess best practices; and contributed to the Best Practices Collection, a set of 11 mobile learning case studies from 4 partner countries involved in the project. Twenty-seven national policymakers signed 'declarations of intent' supporting the proposition that mobile technologies have an important role to play in realizing the goal of lifelong learning.
  
  
• Session 3 – Learning from the Higher Education lifelong Learning Opportunities Project (Power Point)
  Lucy Stone, Project Manager, Leicester College
  The HELLO (Higher Education lifelong Learning Opportunities) Project involves 200 learners and 14 staff across Foundation Degree, HND and HNC courses at Leicester College. The HELLO Project has two key elements:
  
  Element One: Development of learning communities within Moodle for “Tutor driven”, curriculum activities, both formative and summative.  Evidence has shown how these developments have impacted on the learners “social” aspect of learning, as well as aiding retention on one particular part-time course.  
  
  Element Two: Development of social communities within an e-portfolio using Mahara for “Student driven” activities.  In this area learners are able to link in with experts from Industry as well as meet online peers from De Montfort University. 
  
  Through findings some issues have been identified that were not originally considered.  In particular the need for formative activities to keep learners “warm” throughout the long summer break.  We have been working on using reflective blogging on Mahara together with theoretical lessons on deeper reflective thinking and writing.  Throughout the summer and on return in September we will be observing the impact of these activities on building the learner’s “resilience” in the current employment and educational climate.

Lunch and networking time

An opportunity to view posters from the Curriculum Delivery programme and to network over lunch.

Supporting Institutions with Developing Learning and Digital Literacies (PowerPoint)
Helen Beetham, Consultant to e-Learning Programme

This session will be exploring how institutions are supporting learners in a digital age. There will be an opportunity for delegates to examine some of the materials that are being piloted - designed to support curriculum and institutional interventions around digital literacies.

Transforming Curriculum Delivery through Technology Programme (PowerPoint)

This session will be led by Peter Chatterton, Critical Friend to this cluster and will provide an opportunity to learn more about the Curriculum Delivery Cluster focusing on pedagogic models and approaches from the following projects: