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E-learning – Why bother?
A view from RSC Wales
“Donkeys with computers in Greece” by davesag available on Flickr under Creative Commons
• e-Learning is ‘learning facilitated and supported through the use of information and communications technology’
• e-Learning is fundamentally about learning and not about technology
• “A powerful addition to a person’s stock of mental tools. Nothing is given up in return”. (Seymour Papert, Mindstorms, 2nd ed. 1993)
RSC Wales HE activities• Work with key staff on e-learning development
– FE, smaller HE, HE-in-FE, ACL, WBL– Advice on e-learning, e-resources, technical issues– Advise on, and broker, staff development
• Events open to all• Online forums open to all
– http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/ITT-WALES-POST16.html– http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/elearning-wales
• Website www.rsc-wales.ac.uk (blogs are coming…)• Signpost resources: eg. memory stick• Work in partnership with JISC, the Academy and other
organisations to share good practice
LLUK minimum core requirements for ICT (June 2007)
Minimum core document
“…. Learners and teachers make very good and
innovative use of virtual learning environment
materials…”
A recent (2006) Inspection Report for a Welsh FE College commented…
• HEFCW Enhancing Teaching and Learning Through Technology (2008)
– “Our vision is that enhancing learning and teaching through the use of technology should be considered a normal part of mainstream provision, processes and practices.”
Increasing numbers
Flexibility of time and place
Recruitment and retention of Generation Y
Recording achievement and reflection
Skills and employability
Institutional strategy
Quality
Continuity if staff change
Common drivers
In their own words: learner voices
Findings:• students use
technologies to personalise and manage their learning
• Often do not register the “e” – in “e-learning”
• Still need their tutors
• Exploring tangible benefits of E-learning
• 37 case studies• Explores diversity of e-
learning in HE• Identifies where benefits
are being found
http://www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/publications/info/tangible-benefits-publication
Cost savingsFlexibility of time and place
Recruitment and retention of Generation Y
Achievement
Skills and employability
Staff development
Quality
Inclusion
Making Higher Education visible
Research communities
Improved pedagogy
Tangible benefits
• VLEs – Virtual Learning Environments
• Online ‘store’ and much more
• Increasing emphasis on communication tools and integration with other systems
Students can take more control of their own learning…
…with good quality learning resourcesFirst World War Poetry Archive
http://www.nln.ac.uk/
Mind maps
Interactivity…
…engagement
Above image: Copyright HEFCE 2005
Web 2.0• youTube
(www.youtube.com )• Flickr• Del.icio.us• Instant messaging• MySpace• Blogs
(www.blogger.com)• Facebook• Wikis
http://edu.blogs.com
mobile technology helps learning in many scenarios
Above image Copyright HEFCE 2005
e-PortfoliosA way of gathering a range of different types learning evidence including text, spreadsheet, video, audio, blog• http://www.pebblelearning.co.uk/• www.elgg.net
http://www.careerswales.com/progressfile/tour/pfotour.asp
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/aboutus/partnerships/he_academy/assessment.aspx
Assessment and managing plagiarism
“Samba in style” by Carf, available on Flickr under Creative
Commons
• Building a Community of Practice – example: Swansea University’s Learning Lab
• http://learninglab.swan.ac.uk/
Wiki-based web space
Personal support
Bite-sized staff development tailored to needs
Social dimension
• Some more JISC-funded advisory services and resources:
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/services/• Techdis (Accessibility)• TASI : Images (& Moving Images and Sound)• JISC Legal• JISC IPAS - Internet Plagiarism Advisory Service• JISC Collections – subscription and free resources• Intute and Virtual Training Suite
• Effective Practice with e-Learning– Emphasis on “Design for
Learning”– “Designing in” the technology
where appropriate
JISC projects produce useful publications (including video case studies) atwww.jisc.ac.uk/publications
” True computer literacy is not just knowing how to make use of computers… it is knowing when it is appropriate to do so.” Seymour Papert
Active, enjoyable learning that raises motivation
Voting Systems (aka personal response system or ‘clickers’)
Video clip:http://www.elearning.ac.uk/
innoprac/practitioner/strathclyde.html
What technology can I use to…articulate and communicate knowledge / understanding?
Download full Phoebe report athttp://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/publications/phoebefinalreport.aspx
• No need to go it alone…• Keep talking to your
Subject Centre• Contact your local RSC• http://www.jisc.ac.uk/rsc• Talk to the e-learning
person in your institution• Enlist help from your staff
development unit• Make friends with your
librarians• Look out for project
opportunities• Collaborate
Next steps?
• Some forthcoming events
• Workshops 10-11 June– Change management– Managing Multiple Projects
• Promoting Innovation through Virtual Learning - Merthyr Tydfil College conference 1 July
• Wales Moodle Moot 2 July
• Swansea University and other Swansea staff - E-Learning and Beer social - 12 June – The Wig
• More details available from RSC Wales
Lis Parcell [email protected]
01792 513261
Christine [email protected]
01792 602511
www.rsc-wales.ac.uk
(videos, and pictures of people and places, in this presentation were obtained from JISC Case Studies, © 2004/5 HEFCE)
