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Education Day
e-Learning@imperial: Structure & Strategy
Omar K. Matar
Chair of e-LSC
Tuesday 20 April 2010
http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/elearning/
Outline
• Why ‘e-Learning@imperial’?
• ELSC membership
• Terms of reference
• Structure
• Strategy and implementation
• Education Day: examples
Why e-learning@imperial?
The key drivers for e-learning are the evolving nature of
• students and their needs
• staff, their skills and roles
• technology and its use in education
• HE institutions
• competition
Membership
• Prof. Omar K. Matar (Chem. Eng., Chair) • Mr. Paul Allatt (ICT) • Dr. Steven Cook (Life Sciences) • Prof. Susan Eisenbach (Computing)• Ms. Ruth Harrison (Library) • Mr. David Lefevre (Business School) • Prof. Alan Spivey (Chemistry) • Dr. Maria Toro-Troconis (Medicine)• Mr. Jonathan Silver (Student Rep.)
Terms of Reference
• To advise the Strategic Education Committee (SEC) on the College’s current use of educational technologies in learning, teaching and assessment.
• To advise the SEC on recent trends and forthcoming developments in the use of technology within education.
• To advise the SEC on the College’s strategic priorities in the planning, implementation and evaluation/research of educational technology, and administration thereof, including implications for internal funding, and theco-ordination or management of future developments.
• To prioritise and approve College bids for the external funding of educational technology initiatives, for instance, bids for JISC funding, as appropriate.
• To allocate funding for College-wide e-Learning technology initiatives.
1. To coordinate, support and promote e-learning activity across the College to further the aims of the College’s teaching and learning strategy:• To promote a blended approach to teaching and learning which incorporates
use of e-learning into traditional teaching and learning methods • To promote innovation and creativity in the use of technology in teaching and
learning • To promote the use of e-learning to enhance the quality, efficiency and flexibi
lity of assessment and feedback • To ensure adequate capacity/capability of e-learning provision and associated
support across the College
• To encourage departments to develop ‘local’ strategies that mesh with the ELSC and College strategies
• To work with those areas of the College other than academic departments, eg SPD, AHSC, to encourage the use of E-learning tools where appropriate
2. To promote Imperial College as a leader in worldwide education: • To encourage the development of an infrastructure to allow publication of lea
rning materials, where appropriate, to a worldwide audience through the use of tools such as Open Courseware and iTunes-U
Strategy
Implementation
• Secure internal and external funding for core e-learning
activities
• Continue to develop the role of Learning Technologists (LTs)
• Continue to recruit LTs as appropriate
• Ensure that the VLE remains up-to-date and suited to the
strategic needs of the College by carrying out regular reviews
Implementation
• Encourage departments to support e-learning and LTs
• Encourage departments to develop an appropriate infrastructure for e-learning integration in teaching and learning
• Encourage departments to integrate LTs into their teaching committees as appropriate
Implementation
• Encourage LTs and academics to remain abreast of developments in e-learning via attendance of conferences, seminars, workshops
• Incentivise and reward LTs and academics for the development of creative and novel e-learning tools
• Provide advice on how to explore novel technologies that support e-learning
Implementation
• Provide guidelines for and support the use of e-learning tools for formative and summative assessments
• Support the design of courses (both blended and fully on-line) taking into account student support, special needs and accessibility, QAA codes
• Raise student awareness of support provided by the VLE (for assessment, coursework submission, discussion groups etc)
• Enhance student skill set in e-learning techniques
Implementation
• Resolve issues related to IP
• Set up framework (and associated support network) for development of open courseware e-learning tools: from content creation to publishing
• Monitor the development of open courseware tools in other HE institutions world-wide
Implementation
• Ensure penetration of e-learning into departments
• Create discussion forums for academics and LTs, and disseminate best-practice across the College
• Keep strategy under constant review
Examples of what’s on offer today
Workshop: 11.15: A journey from PowerPoint to the Virtual Learning Environment