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Employer-responsive provision: designing, delivering and supporting flexible

learning opportunities

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Higher Education Academy

Centre for Recording Achievement

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Aims

Aims:

– Enable JISC, Higher Education Academy and HEFCE-funded projects to share emerging lessons and learning around the use of technology to support the design, delivery, support and assessment of flexible learning opportunities for work-based and work-placed learners; and engaging with employers / professional bodies / other partners in this context

– Consult with projects around relevant emerging outputs from projects working in related fields, including the HEFCE funded HE5P project

– Through discussion, to develop our collective understanding of the issues in this area and identify potential ways forward

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Pre-meeting activities

Project showcase and networking

All projects have been asked to prepare a poster and short 3 minute video clip uploaded to our YouTube channel

http://www.youtube.com/jiscxprog

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Overview of the day

10.00 – 10.20: Welcome and introductions Suite 6

10.20 – 11.50: Project showcase and networking Suites 5 and 6

11.50 – 12.40: Keynote presentations Suite 6

Jane Kettle, Senior Adviser, Higher Education Academy

Rob Ward and Janet Strivens, Centre for Recording Achievement

12.40 – 13.00: Discussion Suite 6

13.00 – 13.50: Lunch Suites 2/3

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Overview of the day

13.50 – 14.50: Parallel sessions

– Delivering flexible learning opportunities Suite 4

– Designing and assessing flexible learning opportunities Suite 5

– Managing employer-responsive provision Suite 6

14.50 – 15.15: Feedback (and refreshments) Suite 6

15.15 – 15.30: The Design Studio Suite 6

15.30 – 16.00: Reflections, opportunities and policy Suite 6

implications

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JISC and employer responsive provision: the vision

Lifelong and work-based learners :

– Have easy access to appropriate information and guidance

– Are well supported both online and face to face

– Are able to create and share rich records of their learning and achievements

Institutions have:

– Well managed and understood processes supported by technology for assessing evidence of prior experience of learning and enabling interactions with employers

– Flexible and agile processes that enable them to respond to demand

– Integrated customer relationship management, reporting and resource management systems in place and make strategic use of them

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JISC and employer responsive provision: the vision

Learning opportunities and resources are:

– Flexible in the light of learners developing needs

– Varied in terms of study hours, course length, attendance patterns etc

– Related to the learners own employment context

– Described in a structured, standardised format

Employers and professional bodies:

– Are fully engaged with developing courses where appropriate

– Have a culture of staff development, motivated by the need to retain and develop staff

– Can easily find out about the learning and staff development opportunities offered

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JISC and employer responsive provision: the vision

Systems and infrastructure

– Support credit transfer, flexible curricula, the negotiation of learner defined programmes and ways of recording achievement

Institutional policy

– Encourages community engagement and access through the use of open systems and processes

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JISC and employer-responsive provision: programmes of work

JISC programmes:

– Institutional Approaches to Curriculum Design

– Transforming Curriculum Delivery

– Lifelong Learning and Workforce Development

– Business and Community Engagement

HEFCE projects

– HE5P

– Higher Education Academy Employer Engagement projects

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Transforming Curriculum Delivery Through Technology

Aims

– Projects to transform the delivery and support of learning across a curriculum area through the effective use of technology, in response to a particular challenge faced by the department(s) or institution(s) involved.

Timescales

– November 2008 – October 2010

Expected outputs

– Descriptions / models of delivery

– Rationale for the delivery / support model

– Detailed case studies

– Evaluation reports

– Guidance for institutions / curriculum areas

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Curriculum challenges

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Institutional Approaches to Curriculum Design

Aims

– The 12 projects will be reviewing course design and validation processes and in particular looking at the ways these are supported and informed by technology in order to transform learning opportunities

Timescales

– October 2008 – July 2012

– Baseline reviews + interim reports + project videos

Expected outputs

– New/redesigned programmes, modules and sessions

– Guidelines on various aspects of curriculum design

– New design tools and environments

– Development/integration of technical systems and data processes to

support the design process e.g. Data/information diagrams, process diagrams, use cases or other models of the new data processes

– Institutional case studies, video case studies, etc

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Curriculum challenges

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Lifelong Learning and Workforce Development

Aim is to deliver HE-level learning services, that meet the needs of learners in the workplace, and of their employers.

13 projects (March 2009 – March 2011) building on previous work to implement technologies and processes across the institution to support its strategies

All projects will be exemplars to other institutions by demonstrating innovation and good practice, and building knowledge and experience, which can be shared across institutions.

Themes: Flexible/Negotiated Frameworks, APEL, eMentoring, CPD learning opportunity Portals, Employer Engagement, Institutional rollouthttp://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/institutionalinnovation.aspx

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Business and Community Engagement – Supporting Strategic Partnerships

Strategic services eg Consultancy, CPD;Virtual collaborative

facilities

External access to knowledge and expertise

resources

Internaleffective processes +

Interoperable systems (e.g. CRM);

HE/FE KNOWLEDGE & EXPERTISE Research, Education: BCE Strategy

BUSINESS & COMMUNITYDEMANDProblem/need or opportunity

BCE PRACTITIONERSFacilitation, Relationship and Service Management

Productive knowledge and learning partnerships

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Higher Education Academy Employee Learning programme

Programme of work to support the sector to achieve strategic, pedagogic and curricula change with respect to employee learning

Networks

• PVC SIG; Exchange Group – all HEFCE funded Employer engaged projects; Research Network; Stakeholder Group

Publications –forthcoming

• PVC guide for PVCs/middle managers;

• QA demonstrators;

• Exchange Group – EE developments

Subject Centres

• EE Facilitation group- online guide/case studies forthcoming

ELT Evidence-based Practice Seminar Series 2010 (5) + synthesis by Leeds Met (http://steelproject.wordpress.com )

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HE5P: Higher Education, Employer and Employee Engagement through E-portfolios

Key question: “Can e-portfolios support the employer engagement agenda, and If so how?”

Led by the Centre for Recording Achievement…

Twelve HEIs, two professional bodies and a Lifelong Learning Network…

Steering Group (AGR, CBI, HEA, JISC, QAA, Unionlearn, etc)…

Outcomes based upon literature and practice review, participant practice, future oriented scenario building, information architecture model… and your feedback!

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Publications

Open Educational Resources: An update on activities

Leap2A: Enabling e-portfolio portability

Effective Assessment in a Digital Age

– Launching at ALT-C

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Twitter tag

#jisccdd

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Project showcase and networking

10.20 – 10.35: Have a look around at the posters or videos and identify 4 projects you’d like to know more about....

http://www.youtube.com/jiscxprog

10.35 – 10.55: First project showcase

10.55 – 11.15: Second project showcase

11.15 – 11.35: Third project showcase

11.35 – 11.55: Fourth project showcase

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Parallel sessions

Delivering flexible learning opportunities

– Lisa Gray and Sarah Knight (Suite 4)

Designing and assessing flexible learning opportunities

– Rob Ward, Janet Strivens and Judith Smith (Suite 5)

Managing employer-responsive provision

– Simon Whittemore, Jonathan Garnett and Ruth Drysdale (Suite 6)

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Parallel sessions

Focusing on the following questions:

– What are the issues in this space?

– How can technology act as an enabler to address these challenges?

– What are your projects doing about it and what do you have to share with others?

– Where are the gaps that need filling?

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