Research & Development

Sue Attewell – Head of Change FE & SkillsMay 1, 2023

Jisc Online CPD Service for Further Education and Skills

Presenters

»Sarah DunneSenior Co Design Manager, Jisc

»Clare KillenEducational Author and Consultant

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Expectations: students

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“I expect college to provide free access to a range of digital devices, services and software. I want to be using the software I’ll need at work.”

“I want support in moving beyond the basic functions of software and systems, and using things effectively”

“Ask us what we need - we might just surprise you. I don’t feel the college genuinely engages us in decisions about technology”

“I want teachers who are digitally skilled, confident, and willing to hand over control to us to use familiar technologies in class”

“I expect modern, easy to find learning resources. How about making screencasts or videos available on the VLE?”

Perspectives: teaching staff» Goals:

› Learner engagement › Learner retention and

achievement› High-quality learning resources and

activities for use in classroom and homework

» Barriers:› Short on time to find and review

resources› Largely thinking of traditional face to

face teaching models› Not sure what’s possible; how the

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“We use resources from all over the place – some that we’ve created, some free, and some content that the college has paid for.”

“I want engaging content and activities that I can give to learners for homework, revision, or to use to cover staff illness”

Perspectives: e-learning managers

» Challenges:› FELTAG suggests the sector moves 10% of guided learning hours online – who will create

the content? › Motivating and supporting staff in moving to a blended model – developing digital

capability and an awareness of the need and the opportunities› Customising – supporting individual staff linked to specific curricula and student

requirements› Making time and space for e-learning development and providing flexible training

models › Variable access to in-house digital support and expertise› Lots of content but how best to evaluate, navigate, use and keep current?› Staff digital skills, confidence, aspiration and buy-in

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Working in partnership to develop students’ employability 601/05/2023

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Find & reuse

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Brief overview of vision and purpose• Responding to needs

highlighted in FELTAG report:• trainers and teachers may

not be sufficiently trained or confident in the use of new digital technology,

• FELTAG felt the sector should circulate its innovative ideas more widely

• teachers be supported to acquire a high level of digital competences and adopt innovative teaching practices through flexible training and education

“Ease of access to curated content through orchestrated activities to help staff use them in their own teaching”

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Discover

Diagnostic ‘Discovery’ tool linked to Jisc’s six elements of digital capability contextualised to FE and Skills

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»Offer feedback and suggested actions/next steps as well as link to resources

»Use will help awareness and raise expectations and understanding of digital capabilities and opportunities

»Highlights importance of digital capabilities and how they may apply in different contexts

»Allows for self-review (individuals and/or teams)

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LearnLearn

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»Searching and browsing curated resource bank (either through Discovery tool or user search)

»Routes through collections of resources

» Community ratings and reviews»Focus on specific digital capability

themes and learning outcomes»Options to record, evidence and

showcase skills development»Opportunities for

accreditation/online badges

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BuildOnline activity builder app – a tool to assist with embedding digital approaches to learning in lesson planning»Choose content,

qualification and level»Choose platform»Upload content»Add wrapper elements

(learning outcome and objectives)

»Add activities and assessment

»Potential for online course builder

»Encourage and collate new models of delivery

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»Review and rating of apps and learning resources for learning, teaching and assessment

»Develop knowledge base and contribute resources

»Opportunities for collaboration and sharing of experience

»Reflection and peer support

»Sharing of guided learning pathways

»Facilitation of in-house, regional and national models of community support

»Facilitation of special interest groups

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Find & reuse

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Find and reuse

»A route through to learning objects with instruction on how to repurpose and reuse the objects on various platforms

»Linked to upcoming Jisc app store and will incorporate existing resources from Jorum as well as newly identified resources

»A route through to educational apps selected and rated by teaching practitioners

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»Of the things we have described - what will be the most useful aspects in addressing your challenges?

»Is there anything else that would be beneficial?

Your feedback

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Keep in touch

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Further info

Contact

Heather PriceSenior Co Design Manager, Jisc

Heather.price@jisc.ac.uk

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