View
232
Download
1
Category
Tags:
Preview:
Citation preview
Introduction
Journey in HE:Shared responsibility, shared resources
Phil PooleDirector of Learning and Teaching
Programme ManagerPersonal Learning Portal Pilot
Programme
• JISC Distributed e-Learning Regional Pilots• What is PLPP? • Perspectives on supporting widening
participation• The role of Learning Technology: workshops• Emerging issues: A proposal for future
collaboration
JISC Distributed e-Learning Regional Pilots
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/pilotsdetail.html
(Kent) Personal Learning Portal Programme (PLPP)
The partners
Canterbury Christ Church UniversityAimHigher University of KentOxford Brookes UniversitySouth Kent College(University of Greenwich)
Personal Learning Portal Programme (PLPP)
A challenge
Widening participation has accentuated the differences that students have always exhibited when faced with particular modes of learning and assessment. For the uninitiated, or perhaps non-traditional HE entrants, mature students, minority ethnic groups or different cultural backgrounds, the learning context [in HE] can be a barrier to them demonstrating achievement.
Personal Learning Portal Programme (PLPP)
Emerging issues
Those significantly more likely to leave said that they were concerned about:
• a lack of staff support• their ability to learn independently • problems with the academic level of their
studies (more than indicating problems with workload)
Cooke, A (2004)Heading them off at the pass: predicting retention problems University of Ulster
Emerging issues
• Those who declared themselves to be unprepared were more likely to leave than those who did not.
• The maxim “If you fail to prepare, then you prepare to fail” appears to be as true of learners as it is of teachers.
Cooke, A (2004)Heading them off at the pass: predicting retention problems University of Ulster
Emerging issues
• What does it mean?:• Incoming students are extremely ill-informed about
what they are about to experience. This does not relate to the curriculum so much as to how they are expected to work and interact, particularly with staff.
• we should all aspire to produce students who think and learn independently, we can no longer assume that they will arrive already able to do so.
Cooke, A (2004)Heading them off at the pass: predicting retention problems University of Ulster
PLPP Extension 2006-07
Complete the development of an illustrative, searchable repository of centrally held learning objects (to support a range of academic skills), which exploits emerging technologies to provide a portable, flexible resource for FE and HE institutions across the region.
PLPP Study Skills
Linking to PLPP
• Let us know you are interested• Could you offer any resources? • Would you be able to organise the technical
support for using the objects?• Use PLPP resources on the web and help
us develop and evaluate them.
Links
• http://www.kent.ac.uk/is/plpp
• http://www.canterbury.ac.uk/plpp
• http://www.jisc.ac.uk
• http://www.jisc.ac.uk/pilotsdetail.html
Recommended