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WELCOME TO RSC WBL NETWORK MEETING
HOSTED BY KM TRAINING LTD
Teresa Mullin & Jenny Donald
31 AUGUST 2012
TOILETS: UNISEX -FLOOR BELOW (to left)
THROUGH OFFICE/ STAFF ROOM
ASSEMBLY POINT: ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND
Your neighbours include……………….
• Mike Mason and Shaun Elliot – Pearson in Practice
• Duncan Hembury – Access Training
• Charlotte Moreland – NHTA
• Sharon Nash- The Derbyshire Network
• Carol Salusbury- Byrne – Leicester College
• Mick Gilroy – Isis Training
• Margaret McNeil and Roger Clarke – Onsite Training
• Stan Unwin, RSC/ JISC Advisor -Work Based Learning
• Dan McCaffrey- RSC SW
• Nona White/ Alison Robson, Charnwood Training Consultants
Network Meeting Overview
9.30 – 10.00 Coffee and Networking
10.00 – 10.10 Welcome and introductions
10.10 – 11.00 Education.net - a free e-learning VET
resource sharing platform
Teresa Mullin – Director, KM Training
Dan McCaffrey - RSC -SW
Assessing the ICT capability of
learners A free tool developed by KMT
11.00 – 11.15 BREAK
11.15 – 12.00 Functional Skills Discussion
Stan Unwin, and delegates
12.00 – 12.30 Open Forum
including e-signatures and an update on the
FE & Skills Funding round
12.30 LUNCH
Education Net Supported by JISC Advance Funding
• Offer free, e-resources to learners, educators and employers
• Activities, videos and articles which are curriculum based
• Safeguarded and checked whilst the learner stays on the site
• Ideal for apprentices and work-based learners
• Easy access
• Accessibility issues: currently using vozme, open to other web-
friendly suggestions, options for screen colour and font size, meeting
learning styles
• Assumes user is IT competent at least a basic level
• Collaboration with JISC Advance and Charwood Training
Evolution of Education-net.org
Assessing dependent orindependent ICT ability in Work Based Learning
How ICT Literate are:
•You?
•Your staff?
•Your learners?
Making Assumptions…..
• Tool has emerged from recent LSIS RDF 2012 research
• Research explored the concepts and ability of whether a learner is a
dependent or independent learner in ICT
• The project also reviewed how can this be assessed.
• ICT is a changing environment
• Increasingly, learners are assumed to be ICT literate.
• Evidence suggests learners differ in their ICT abilities.
• If not initially assessed for their ICT ability learners are likely to
experience learning barriers.
Our Framework & Indicator Tool
ICT ability / Confidence
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DependentDependent
IndependentIndependent
ICT Learner Progression Route
Semi-Independent
Semi-Independent
Interventions
• Check there are no learning difficulties such as dyslexia or Irlen’s syndrome
• Review the levels of e-learning the course contains.
• Spikey Profiles lead to ICT skills gaps- Providers can include activities in ILP Reviews to increase use and therefore confidence incrementally
• Re-test to show improvement
This presentation was part of the JISC RSC East Midlands Work Based Learning Forum
held on 31st August 2012.
More details are available at http://moodle.rsc-em.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=128
