Tools are often enablers rather than drivers : “Technology is available to develop either independence and

learning or bureaucracy and teaching” (Ivan Illich, Deschooling Society, 1971)

Developments in Digital Learning Technology and Harnessing these on a Budget

Steve Wileman - Educational Technology ConsultantProduct Development ManagerSmart Assessor

Education has moved on from books, pencils and pens to the use of interactive technologies to help impart knowledge and understanding

Employers and learners need new routes to learning; learners are demanding better communication tools on and off campus with access to learning materials including revision and extension activities

whenever and wherever they are.

The institutes e-readiness is the key to meeting these challenges.

• With tightening budgets and the disappearance of Train to Gain, it is becoming more difficult for employers to justify workforce training and development.

• The threat to continuity of service is evident and a radical change is needed to facilitate this drive.

• Many colleges use Private Training Provider as an effective way of increasing learner numbers and widening or consolidating their offer.• Private Training Providers will have to ensure that their offer reflects current funding priorities and integrate further with existing college/client

services

• Requires the services of a multi-functional team with significant technology experience offer/utilising learning environments best suited to client needs

• Need to provide:• Quality of provision in a landscape of funding pressures and reduced delivery hours• More engaged learners, new assessment methods and ways of working, as well as making time and cost savings.• The best cost effective multi function technologies to support innovation and improvement delivery,enabling immersive learning and inspiring

teaching

• However, various cost saving solutions can be adopted to ensure a more synchronous digital institute.• Hardware• Software• Infrastructure

Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)

Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) — use the devices learners already have and are familiar with in teaching and learning environmentA willingness to look beyond the traditional virtual learning environment to technological solutions that bring learning into our learner’s space

Investment in Wi-Fi infrastructures to facilitate reliable, robust, fast connectivity

Off set pc replacement program with resilient “future proof” Wi fi (pc reduction year on year)

Plan BYOD into Vision statements & delivery methods“Realignment of learning vision, leadership, culture, design, methodology, pedagogy and assessment may require upfront investment in infrastructure and human resources.” Bob Harrison - Feltag

Holistic planning Wider Vision statements

• The increase in availability of mobile devices and Wi-Fi, staff and learners are beginning to exploit social media tools to support learning and teaching, whether as part of assignments or group activities

• Support the creation of more informal personal learning networks.• Learners are on the go, always connected, and demanding to

engage with their institution in a variety of ways• Create a community with peers to share news, ideas about

teaching and learning• Most institutes today recognise the huge potential of social media

and personal learning spaces (e-portfolios)• Staff and learners beginning to exploit social media's potential to

support learning and teaching, attitudes towards it are changing...

Why Social Media

• Because of its ease of use, speed and reach, social media is fast changing public discourse in society and setting trends and agendas in educational institutes

• Social media can also be construed as a form of collective wisdom or the chatter of a community – Usually FREE software

• Facebook groups can be to discuss learning topics and make it easier for learners to help each other out without having to be in the same room. Twitter can be used to get in touch with subject matter experts, stir up discussions and curate interesting content about the eLearning topic.

• Facebook groups, YouTube channels, Twitter lists, Google+ communities; the list is expanding year on year.

Facebook • Use Facebook groups to communicate with students.

• This is a very powerful tool for sharing information and collaborating with students from a safe distance.

• Members of the groups can exchange files, links, information, polls and videos very quickly.

• Facebook pages can also be used to create a central page for students and teachers to share information (goodbye VLE / Moodle?!?)

• Shrewsbury college are providing additional communication and collaboration with 182 closed Facebook groups currently in place across curriculum areas.

• Twitter accounts are used to raise awareness of the digital life initiative and to support communication and course activities

• Teachers setting up subject or class Twitter accounts that students can follow.

• The teacher then tweets information related to their class.

• Homework via Twitter• Minimum time to set up , quick instant

information• Lesson prep tool – instant reminder,

assignment deadlines• Exam prep information, room changes• Educational visits• Art Images and learner feedback

Twitter

Flavour or Flavor of Month

• Google offers its free apps for education, with secure email, a calendar, access to Google's Microsoft Office-like suite of productivity tools, and more establish mediums

• Google have also launched Google Classroom, a free service that is trying to be the new Moodle, but….

• Changes and CPD !!!!!

Social media - Benefits

• Its educationally valuable to embrace it, turn it into an opportunity for our students to develop an appreciation for the advanced cognitive skills they employ on a daily basis,

• Social media can simultaneously improve the learner journey, reduce teacher/assessor workload, and drive down costs

• Social media has exploded as a category of online discourse where people create content, share it, bookmark it and network at a prodigious rate.

The use of Social Media and learners managing personal on-line learning space will be the weapons of choice and we have to encourage teaching colleagues to look beyond the comfort blanket of the VLE to achieve it.Geoff Rebbeck - FELTAGSIG

Considerations

• Using social media well is a skill, just like anything else, and those unfamiliar with newer technologies and platforms can benefit from some form of training

• Provide professional development, encouraging teachers to rethink their learning models

• Provide a structured approach to helping staff build their networks – particularly those who are new to using social media in a professional capacity

Microsoft/Apple/Google

Dominant player remains MicrosoftFlavour of the month remains Apple, with the cool of the iPad providing an allure that no other product can match & a comprehensive app store available and many features such as the facility for teachers to easily create bespoke, multimedia textbooks for their classes.Google now has moved in Added functionalities, ease of use and uncomplicated maintenance that cloud software offers will convince even more organisations

HardwareChromebooks have won market share in large part because they are cheaper

Microsoft offers education-appropriate laptops cheaper than Apple, but thus far have not matched Chromebooks

Compared to Apple and Microsoft products Google's Chromebooks have limited functionality, but they're low on headaches and ongoing expenses

Being able to buy twice the number of machines for the same price while not having to budget for software makes sense, but……

Which way?Google Apple Microsoft Facebook

Cheap Expensive Middle of Road New Kid on the Block

Services ever change – “Talk”

Intuitive Staff friendly Learner accessible

“free” Tech Industry preferred

Employer Industry preferred

Learner preferred

Demand results – case studies by independents not suppliersTry before you buy – 3 x sample “well resources” e-projects

Get all stakeholders involvedListen to all stakeholders

Which is better? There's only one way to find out: FIGHT!

Web Hosted - Online DeliverySustainable apprenticeship delivery, CPD & team meetings

Ensuring staff development and CPD sessions are offered across all sitesStaff /learners loose time to travelling and thus this can affect attendance

Personal Learning Spaces (e-portfolios)

Travel incurred costs have always been a major expenditure for any organisationThere is an increasing need to find realistic alternatives to significantly reduce travel costsFunding cutbacksInstitute sustainability programs Trailblazer programs Mergers and FE “area reviews”Challenges for multi site institutes

Many Online meeting alternatives

All have pros & cons…

Goto Meeting ClickMeeting Ustream

Skype Adobe Connect Vscene - JISC

Big blue button Oovoo Clickmeeting

Periscope Google Hangout Integrated web conference room Smart

Rooms

Android and iOS supportDesktop & Application SharingWhiteboardSimultaneous Video FeedsAnnotation(Pointer & Markup)Public/Private ChatPollingFile SharingStreaming Audio/Video (YouTube)Breakout RoomsReportingRecording & EditingWaiting RoomParticipant List , Rights & RolesEmbed Session

WFD –Distance learning solutions multi use software solutions

• Invested in a new web hosted e-portfolio system for our Work Force Development • Smart Assessor came with an integrated web conference room they called Smart Rooms.• Assessors can use the Smart Rooms to interact with learners 'virtually' over the web, in

between formal face to face reviews.• Smart Rooms allowed assessors to record audio/video for Professional discussion, Q&A

sessions and review progress.

• The E learning team immediately saw the benefits of this software from a teaching & Learning & training perspective.

• A cloud based online meeting space….

Versatile Multi Use Online meeting environment

Re purpose Re Use sessions - Online CPD • Created an online course that included the resulting video footage from the

sessions & introduction to our college “experts in the field”

• Re use demonstrations for online lessons – Functional Skills resources generated

• World Skills Vocational MasterClass• Principal address• Staff feedback - excellent – Less travel• Management feedback - excellent – standardisation of CPD• Externals - excited – Took ideas back to own SLT• Attendance - 40 + attendance to many online sessions

• We proved that we could stream CPD activities with minimal hardware investment whilst demonstrating different uses of the technology

• It also meant that we were able to present standardised CPD across all of our campuses

MONITOR MILES/ HOURS/ CO2

• Three sessions across 4 x campus’s

• Principal address

• Shadow Minister Education visit

• Mental Health Awareness session

• Miles Saved: 6595• CO2 emissions saved:

2179.32• Hours Saved: 276.5• Fuel Cost saved: £2641.60

Advantages of Online Meeting spaceLow investment• Sustainable delivery method • Small investment is necessary to implement online CPD / meetings• Only a normal computer with Internet access and special web conferencing software is

required to participate in an online meeting. • Cost effective Web cameras and headsets • All participants can jointly access, view and edit documents in real time. • Only a standard computer with Internet access and webcam is required to participate in an

online meeting – no username / account set up (SKYPE) • Staff can use their work time more productively due to less travel• WFD assessor / learner online one-to-ones – no travel 200 miles for learner – even

different countries - India etc• Cross institute /college collaborations – shared services eg CPD • Annual growth rate of 7.9% online cpd delivery since 2012

InfrastructureLearning outside the classroom is a key aspect of the latest Common Inspection

Framework Transform the campus learning-space planning process to include collaboration and

participation by all stakeholders in the digital arena and enable learners to recognise take responsibility for their learning styles and needs.

Areas designed to encourage autonomy associated with online delivery Facilitates the completion online activities, e-portfolio, resources & learner targets,

Staffing & Infrastructure• It is evident that more digitally confident staff are

needed to accommodate a much higher additional online workload in the future.

• Further cost savings required to ensure financial stability • eLearning team under resourced?• ELearning development team models can adapted,

adopted and deployed in existing areas of the college /institute

LRC - Digital Learning Hub

• Re-evaluating the role of the LRC and its staff as well as learning support staff you can extend the reach of services to students

• Digital learning space which becomes the “heart” of the college/ institute - where information and support can be centrally accessed, with a focus upon teaching and learning and support services.

• Incorporate and access different support areas in one place a sense of “community” and one stop support area for staff and students alike.

• The LRC’s need to transform themselves into technology and support hubs, an unrestricted open space that enables access to support information, technology and a central source of digital literacy.

The merging of roles ...Instructional Systems Design + Technology +Librarianship • Strategic way to evolve the current LRC setup is emphasise, adapt and support

the teaching component of the “teacher” librarian’s role .

• LRC staff should be seen as experts in helping lecturers enhance the learning both in and out of the “traditional “classroom

• LRC - Home for the e-Learning Team & IT support (merging of roles –eventually)

• Expert team of learning technology specialists provide support, guidance and advice to the curriculum teams and students on how to use technology in the classroom effectively.

• The LRC should be as much a resource for teachers as it is for students by embedding ILT into regular CPD activities, online cross campus team meetings and video conferencing taking place in this space.

• Cross campus video conferencing (smart rooms) will show substantial cost savings in travel expenses, increased productivity due to time saved not commuting and of the college’s carbon footprint.

• These opportunities could include linking up with other learning providers across the globe (Skype classroom / Google classrooms/ Smart Room / TUTE online).

Rebrand - Repurpose• Focused upon collaborative learning environments and

the use of appropriate digital tools for different student learning styles, a modern hub for 21st-century teaching and learning, providing realistic, innovative and supportive strategies for our learner’s futures.

• Online activities can all be centralised in the LRC with students taking more ownership of their learning outcomes. (JISC Change Agents)

• Peer-to-peer tutoring and one-on-one learning can be facilitated - LSA staff form a regular part of the LRC environment.

• Providing workshop style support for online modules or flipped learning within their study programme.

• Likewise other support services should be intrinsically liked to this central digital space, to provide a cohesive learning area outside the traditional classroom.

Benefits of Redesigned LRC & “E” roles

• The LRC should be multi-dimensional hubs offering a range of in-house training, workshops, learner journey events and digital resources.

• Enhance learner’s digital experience - Personal Learning Spaces (e-portfolios)• Online presence of knowledge

• Utilise learner willingness to contribute to the college experience

• Collaborative production of learning -Students as digital change agents• Learners interact with everything - Collaboration is the norm – learners reduce staff

costs

• Librarians (new staff priorities) are part of the wider student experience – online teaching supported

• “Digital Hub” staff to support the teachers while they are delivering classes and demonstrate how to better use the technology.

• Fully utilised LRC space & staff

• Incorporate more apps and develop more online courses to make learning even more personalised for our students and teachers.”

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Benefits of Redesigned LRC & “E” roles • Embedding Academic and Research Libraries in the Curriculum

• Improve Digital Literacy

• Rethinking the Roles and Skills of Librarians • Embracing the Need for Radical Change

• Increasing Value of the User Experience • Prioritization of Mobile Content, Personal Learning Spaces (e-portfolios) &

link to Delivery

• The design of library spaces can better facilitate the face-to-face interactions that most commonly take place there.

• Library staff are increasingly studying learner behaviour to inform decisions for strategic plans and budgetary considerations.

• Expand to make room for active learning classrooms, media production studios, makerspaces, and other areas conducive to hands-on work.

• These changes reflect a trend that is being driven by a deeper pedagogical shifts in education to foster learning experiences that lead to the development of real-world skills and concrete applications for students

New Delivery Methods - Facilitate group work and collaborative projects

• To facilitate group work and collaborative projects, classroom spaces should be redesigned where learners have more flexibility in their own learning without the traditional classroom environment

• Promote, support, encourage and enhance students’ natural ability with technology.

• Encourage active learning with formal and informal areas, and facilitate BYOD learning with group areas that encourage teaching, learning and sharing.

• Set up the ‘collaboration room’ – a model based on the University of Wolverhampton’s LaTTE (Learning and Teaching Test Environment), to facilitate small group work.

Collaboration Rooms

Cut New Classroom costs• Smartboard & Promethium very expensive projectors with bloated software

that requires high levels of staff support

• SMART BOARD M680I6 (77" DIAGONAL) INTERACTIVE WHITEBOARD WITH UF70 PROJECTOR

• £2,049.00 (£2,458.80 inc VAT)

• PROMETHEAN 78" ACTIVBOARD 378 PRO WITH MOUNT SYSTEM AND PROJECTOR

• £2,031.00 (£2,437.20 inc VAT)

• Both Smart and Promethean offering top of the line performance

• Smart & Promethian offers so much in the way of features and resources,that not everyone will be able to take full advantage of it.

Cheaper better alternatives• Introduce wi-fi connected, interactive, Epson short throw projectors at a fraction of the

cost• Encourage & allow learners to utilise their own devices to share content via AirServer.

This costs £6 per license compared to the more costly alternative of AppleTV.”

• no problems with unwanted shadows being cast by objects or by people walking in front of the beam

• Epson EB-475Wi Projector• £ 1,059.00 • Epson ELPCB01 Control & Connector Box• £ 161.00• Epson EBWAR7106857 5 Year Hardware/Lamp• £ 170.00

Vs £2,458.80

Software, CPD & Staff adoption• Plenty of ways to connect a massive variety

of sources to the projector, such as a HDMI port, two VGA ports and a USB port. In combination with Epson's supplied Easy Interactive Function software

• Save your notes as a PDF, PNG, JPEG or BMP file (upload to vle/eportfolio)

• Epson's iProjector app for Android and iOS to display photos, documents and web pages directly from your phone.

Staff development• The new projectors proved so intuitive to

use, sessions took just 20 minutes, whereas previously, staff development for the whiteboards took over an hour.

• Interactivity is focused and clear. The feedback from staff was immediately more positive and they were keen to get started with making lessons more engaging

• Two page handout on desktop image

Multi use softwareSoftware purchases / deploymentOften two, three software solutions are purchased for different aspects of the learner journey/ Ofsted requirements. Even WFD & Curriculum differences - WHY?

Value for money – return on investment – value proposition

Tracking learner progressLearner skills scansUpload evidenceIV samplingResource areaE portfolio Trackable online presence (POD gone but what next?)

Management dashboards & tracking – aid retentionDynamic data to aid relevant to your auditsMany of these solutions cross over DuplicationAdditional training Larger CPD programsReduced staff adoption - Are they all needed?

Personal Learning Spaces E-portfolios • E-portfolios provide educators with an opportunity to

observe learners individual growth and how they identify their evidence to learning outcomes on their course

• Improving the access to data for learners, parents, and staff

• Planning how to approach a given learning task, monitoring progression, and evaluating progress toward the completion of a task

• Upload intuitive innovative methods of evidence collection such as video, audio, documents

• Developing personalised, formative assessment• Track every detail of the learner journey (Dynamic

Progress Tracking)• Support distance learners and promote independence

through the completion of extension activities• Support progress and achievement of learners with

diverse demographics.“Technology acceptance models are based on perceived usefulness “

How to make savings

Mapping evidence into functional skills

Booking online sessions with learners

Educators using the CPD skill scans to identify deficiencies

Upload and link to relevant e-learning resources

Using activities with learners

Recording teaching/ learning for future use

Use of electronic signatures

Updated sampling plans

Transferring data in from another MIS

Reduced travel to learner time and costs by 25%

Upload initial assessments to the induction session

learner satisfaction and surveys

Educators feedback is cross referenced across the whole program eg different units / functional skills

Learners are using the initial declarations

Employers/ parents log into the e-portfolio -

Parent/employer reports – automated content

Every £1 invested in Smart Assessor returned £3 direct cost savingo Invest £15,000 saved £45,000 – Chichester College

Eliminated paper (sustainable)Electronic learning resources, handouts, assignments and standardsElectronic Reviews, Learning PlansElectronic signatures eliminate paper formsReduced travel to learner time and costs Increasing case load (increased class sizes / online attendance)MIS integration (two way)Reduced administration costs to file/chase/manage paperworkQuality Assurance – build in electronic IQA (IV) processesOfsted Ready DashboardElectronic enrolment forms

Ensure use 80% plus of any software’s features – not 20%

Augment LearningIn this profession we have to be Innovators, constantly looking for new ways to educate and “entertain” our

learners. It’s obvious that good teaching is needed to raise student achievement, but the rise of the mobile enabled

“youtube” hungry learner clearly indicates technology is part of their everyday life. These empowered learners demand quick access to bite size learning reinforcements and the potential use of AR/VR in the classroom is

undeniable. As educators today we are always looking for creative ways to engage with our learners. AR/VR is no longer a

technology accessed by the few luminaries with countless funding and very deep pockets.

The App:

• Utilised the Aurasma AR platform.

Created a South Staffordshire College branded app. This allowed the generation of content specifically for curriculum areas and also apply some corporate identity to the wider cross college learner experiences.

Aurasma is currently free for educational organisations. They helped us to set up a ‘studio’ for our college where we could create AR content.

Aurasma studio allows you to link video content, web page links and animations (auras) to a ‘trigger’ image.”

more inspiring, engaging, innovative and modern self-support / situated learning communication methods

» Following the introduction of Augmented Reality at South Staffordshire College, AR began to change the way we teach, learn and communicate to our 21st Century learners making the whole learning experience more entertaining, rewarding, engaging

The Start of the AR Journey - App:

Redefinition: Tech allows for the creation of new tasks previously inconceivable

Modification: Tech allows for significant task redesign

Augmentation: Tech acts as a direct tool substitute, with functional improvement

Substitution: Tech acts as a direct tool substitute, with no functional change

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» The technology is having an impact particularly in practical subjects such as construction and is driving up their success rates !!

» Vocational qualifications & practical demonstrations lend themselves wonderfully to AR. Fileting a fish, sharing hair and beauty techniques, to arranging floristry displays or even laying a row of bricks.

» Highly effective way of engaging our learners. These demonstrations can be very time consuming and often involve expensive non reusable materials. We are already starting to see the impact of AR demonstrations in the classroom.

» Following AR demonstrations of how to correctly cut a brick» Construction lecturers Terry Ramwell & Leigh Jakeman

reported 90% of their learners “got it right first time” compared to 60% prior to using AR. Wastage and material costs of the bricks have decreased due to the lecturers not having to demonstrate repeatedly.

» Prior to AR Retention/Success was 74%, » After AR 89%, an increase of +20% in course

The App:

» Through collaborations with the charity Rethink Mental Illness, an AR project has built upon our work promoting greater awareness of hidden disabilities

» Using Augmented Reality has enabled us to do this in a way that is comfortable and easily accessible to staff and learners developing a college wide inclusive culture

Often stigma is attached to the perception of mental health issues

» All of the Mental Health Awareness Augmented Reality support posters (including the instruction guide) can be downloaded here:  

» https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ur2xecln3ec6lp2/AAAuMWHuXwSQPQEAtJGj10Oza?dl=0

» Tiny url» http://tinyurl.com/q75z2y3» All outputs are available shortly on the

UK's largest repository for discovering and sharing Open Educational Resources - JORUM

» http://www.jorum.ac.uk/

The App: :

» AR poster outputs can be viewed using the unbranded Aurasma app.

» Upgrade your QR to AR and download Aurasma app on an ipad/iphone or android device.

»  Open your QR code reader - point your device at your smart phone to be taken to your free Aurasma app.

»  

The App:

Virtual RealityVirtual reality is similarly becoming an accessible medium for education.

The most cost effective virtual reality solution available to everybody right now is Google Cardboard. It requires nothing more than your existing smartphone and a cardboard frame with a couple of cheap lenses inside.

Google have released the design as open source so you can make your own or buy one online for less than £5. Not only is the hardware cheap for consumers but developing applications which support it is low cost and the results

can be amazing.

Ebay - £3.99Templates - Make your own - Cheaper

Virtual Reality Everywhere

£3.99 per curriculum area

http://www.chupamobile.com/blog/2014/07/30/googles-cardboard-what-it-is-and-how-you-can-get-one/

Super cheapEasy to useAffordable fun

Cheap, mobile virtual reality that's a cinch to

make

LEARNER CENTRED VIRTUAL REALITY

Design, organize

1Assessment

Give learners opportunities to explore VR for Free & encourage learner found Apps

Free Existing Apps:Curriculum - Tourism

London VR

FULL 360 sites of London. Navigate totally through your VR headset for a tour like no other. It's just like you are actually there. Visit sites like:-Tower of London-London Eye-HMS Belfast-and many more!

There are various options to facilitate Curriculum focused Virtual Reality

LEARNER CENTRED VIRTUAL REALITY

Design, organize

1Assessment

Give learners opportunities to explore VR for Free & encourage learner found Apps

Free Existing Apps:Curriculum - English

War Of Words

‘War Of Words: VR’ uses virtual reality to take you back to 1916, and into a mind-set captured by Siegfried Sassoon in his controversial poem ‘The Kiss’.The poet describes preparing a rifle for battle. Following the bullet fired from the rifle will lead the viewer to the second part of the poem. The 'kiss' described by the writer is a metaphor for the act of bayoneting an enemy soldier.

There are various options to facilitate Curriculum focused Virtual Reality

GOOGLE SPHERE

Design, organize

1Assessment

Learners / Staff can create their own VR learning

On their own device

Free Existing Apps:

ALL Curriculum - Google Sphere

Create, 360º panoramas and publish them to Google Maps and VLE. Explore a global map of other public photo spheres too.

ALL CURRICULUM AREAS – THE ENABLER

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/about/contribute/photosphere/

Curriculum engaging teaching & learning resources eg – 360 immersive images– Kitchen / Construction Workshop images to promote and identify hazard awareness safely Google Sphere -360º panoramas of all the college campus’s

Virtual walkthroughs of all campus’s on website linked to google maps

Curriculum – Construction –Torc (Health & Safety – spot the hazard)

Virtual Reality & the 21st Century Learner

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In times of austerity where staff cuts are inevitable organisations are also looking for staff to generate e-learning content to meet this provision.

Generation of high quality online materials is very time consuming and requires e-skills that many teaching staff do not have.

More digitally confident staff are needed to accommodate a much higher additional online workload in the future, but this also has implications for CPD programs, teacher utilisation and eLearning teams.

Currently there thousands of free Open educational resources that can be utilised by educational establishments, employers, learners and teaching staff.

Open Educational Resources (OER) — Rip,remix (and credit) resources streamline learning and teaching

• Teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others

• Open educational resources include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge

• So where do we locate these free educational resources • (lesson plans, quizzes, syllabi, instructional modules, simulations, etc)• Based upon the current educational needs in Further Education I have focussed

upon a few of these I have used …..

OER Commons• One of the largest comprehensive digital

“public” libraries of open educational resources.

• Course Syllabus for "PRDV201: Accounting Principles I“

• Individual units• Mapped and guided learning hours:• Learner outcomes• Links • Online self directed study• Ratings & Review

https://legacy.saylor.org/prdv201/Unit03/

Citizen Maths• Citizen Maths is a free open online maths resource for:

• Learners who want to develop their grasp of maths at Level 2• Colleges and other learning providers who want to give enrolled

learners an additional or alternative route to improving their maths (Self Study)

• Employers who want to provide staff with a practical and flexible learning and development opportunity in maths

• Citizen Maths is funded by the Ufi Charitable Trust• Uses google course builder & only requires google email address

• Citizen Maths has five and 10 hours of study for each area. • 5 areas of study• It it built up from: • short “to camera” videos and explanatory screencasts• activities, tasks and other practical challenges• “low stakes” quizzes to help users check their understadinng

Using four main types of content 5/7

Talking to camera

Screencasts applets (for learners & in screencasts)

Writing to camera

https://www.youtube.com/user/CitizenMaths/ https://citizenmaths.com/what-is-it/

Citizen Maths

JISC / AoC• More than just a resource library• Individual support• Audits • Case studies• Networking

Jorum• The UK's largest repository for discovering

and sharing Open Educational Resources for HE, FE and Skills.

• Scorm compliant resources

Still to Do with OER…….

• Identify suitable material• Agree material for release• Find electronic copies of original materials • Copyright check (ownership & 3rd party)• Adjust if appropriate• Pedagogic review• Upload or link in current VLE / Personal Learning spaces

(e-portfolio)

OER Benefits

• OER adoption brings financial benefits for students/institutions• OER Support informal learning opportunities & study support • OER reduces the increasing online content generation for teaching staff• OER used for supplementary support & online remit• OER access to high quality engaging content• OER increased curriculum offering• OER reduced costs through collaborative development

To VLE or Not To VLE?Learning elements that used to take a long time to develop, such as exercises, quizzes, tests and games, can now be generated using automated solutions. The most advanced tools scan the course content and determine which are the most important parts to be included in tests.

These solutions will only get better, allowing for significant time and cost savings in the development of eLearning courses. They can also provide a more individualised learning

experience.

Intuitive Content Development software • Ensure teachers can create cloud-based learning

resources which:• enable students to learn with structured support and

guidance• enrich learning with experiences beyond the standard

curriculum• extend learning beyond the classroom• publish SCORM 1.2 courses and assessments at the

touch of a button • Stafford College / Pitman Training using this to

generate SCORM • 11-18 school in Sandwell which has trail blazed this

innovation. Kirsty Tonks from Shireland Collegiate Academy a member of their senior team is part of ETAG!

• For more information: www.elearning247.com/nimbleeducation

Blended Learning Consortium• There is still a shortage of good quality interactive

learning content specifically designed for the sector and building this type of content for more than one or two courses is too expensive for individual colleges to do themselves.

• There is a solution for this by pooling human and financial resources across a number of colleges and sharing all content across the sector.

Blended Learning Consortium

• Lead by Heart of Worcestershire College, winners of this years AoC and TES awards for technology and learning

• Growing consortium, presently 13 Colleges working together to improve e-learning

• Annual membership of £5K• Money used to develop high quality e-

learning content using staff from partners colleges to write an “e-learnify” content

• Minimum investment each college will get at least £65Ks worth of content and hopefully more than a £100K

Blended Learning Consortium

• Examples of the type of content that will be produced (built by Heart of Worcestershire College)ConstructionAccess to Music

• Consortium will also share best practiceshare existing contentWork together on bids and tenders

• If interested contact pkilcoyne@howcollege.ac.uk

COST REDUCTIONS IN A TIME OF AUSTERITY

So reduction of hardware costsFull Utilisation of existing infrastructureMaximising efficiency with software purchasesReduction of staff trainingUtilising social mediaBYODOERCollaborative groups

Hooked On Learning

• Vision statements• Look at support out there • #Feltagsig• Jisc /Aoc• Utilise multi discipline software's• Intuitive software• Social Media• anytime, anywhere, any device

Tools are often enablers rather than drivers : “Technology is available to develop either independence and

learning or bureaucracy and teaching” (Ivan Illich, Deschooling Society, 1971)

“We talk about the fear of technology, it’s often about the fear of change, but often these technologies are there to enable change, it’s there to make things better for learners, to make things better for learners, easier for staff and better for staff.” (James Clay, Jisc project manager - Feltag Special Interest Group)

Email: stephen.e.wileman@gmail.comsteve.wileman@smartassessor.co.ukLinkedIn: uk.linkedin.com/pub/stephen-wileman/38/9b4/39aTwitter:@Bluejam15

Steve Wileman - Educational Technology Consultant

Product Development ManagerSmart Assessor

Is this enough?

• With the future of nearly 40 colleges in question, BIS and DfE have reveals those facing area reviews

• http://feweek.co.uk/2015/09/08/future-of-nearly-40-colleges-in-question-as-bis-reveals-those-facing-area-reviews/

• With many colleges currently facing “significant financial challenges”

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BIS report Reviewing post-16 education and training institutions

• The recently released BIS report said that the collective approach was required

• We will need to move towards fewer, often larger, more resilient and efficient providers. We expect this to enable greater specialisation, creating institutions that are genuine centres of expertise, able to support progression up to a high level in professional and technical disciplines

• A national programme of area-based reviews