The document discusses the role of a Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) team at a university faculty. The team holds training events on individual tools like Adobe Presenter and uChoose, and also showcase events to introduce faculty to a variety of TEL techniques using tools like Blackboard, video cameras, and wikis. The goal is to empower faculty to identify how TEL can support their teaching in a way that is appropriate and sustainable.

1. Faculty of Health
and Life Sciences
Supporting technologies for HLS

3. Who I am …
Masters in Social Science, History of
supporting technological innovation in
Medical Education, PRINCE 2 Project
Management Practitioner
Project Officer at the Royal College of
Paediatrics and Child Health
Learning Technology Intern at the
University of Bristol
Postgraduate Officer at the University of
Bath
Education Projects Administrator at the
Royal College of Obstetricians and
Gynaecologists Course Developer
(Technologist)
University of West of England

4. TEL – What is it?
For the purpose of this policy,
TEL is defined as any Information
and Communication Technology
(ICT) that directly supports
learning and teaching.
This is seen as a more inclusive
term than those of e-learning or
blended learning which often lack
clarity of definition

5. January 2012 August 2012 January
Oliver Haslam Oliver Haslam Michael Harris
Lisa Thrower Michael Harris Tom Buckley
Susan ? Tom Buckley
John Doherty
Name Role
Kath Ross Associate Dean for Student Experience
Simon Messer Technology Enhanced Learning Lead
Matthew Cownie Learning Educational Technologies Manager
??? Course Developers
TEL - Who we are

6. TEL - What we do
Support the TEL Strategies
within the Faculty.
These being
•The UWE TEL Strategy
•The Faculty TEL Strategy
•The Departmental TEL
Strategy

7. Background and context
The UWE TEL survey (Falconer 2011) reveals a
range of other technologies in use, both from
internal provision and external provision, examples
of which include an extensive range of websites,
web 2.0 tools, and social networking sites.
The embedding of practice within Faculties and
departments is a challenge however (Falconer
2011) and the ELDU are developing an
infrastructure which strongly aligns the ELDU with
identified staff within each Faculty

8. Faculty TEL strategy : Aims I
The overall aims will be:
•to ensure that the Faculty takes full advantage of
the affordances of TEL for meaningful
enhancement of existing and future provision of
our portfolio
•to ensure meaningful enhancement of the quality
of our teaching and student
experience through the use of TEL.

9. Faculty TEL strategy : Aims II
3 key TEL activities will be enabled to have
multiple uses:
•Realign support infrastructure for effective
development and online-learning delivery of
credit- and non-credit bearing content
•Enhanced role of TEL in modules /
programmes / courses
•Staff and student development in TEL

10. Action Who by When
Staff development
Staff TEL development sessions identified Associate Dean and HoDs
TEL faculty lead
Nov 2011
Faculty strategy implementation
Identification of current/new programme suitable for
online delivery
HoD with TEL faculty lead Dec 2011
Identification of module / programme suitable for TEL
enhancement
HoD and programme managers Dec 2011
Agreement of identified departmental
activities/programmes by Executive and forward action
plan to TEL Implementation Group
Executive and TEL
Implementation Steering Group
Chair
Nov 2011
Action plan for 2012/13 implementation identified and
overseen by TEL Implementation Group
TEL Implementation Steering
Group
June 2012
Infrastructure
Gain approval for new technologists posts and I grade
academic post. Advertise and appoint.
Dean Sep 2011
Audit of current activities overseen by the LET (LTDU)
and refocus for future responsibility
Deputy Dean, ITS, Head of LET Oct 2011
Set up TEL Implementation Steering Group; ToR and
membership
Associate Dean Sep 2011
Agreement of identified departmental
activities/programmes by Executive and forward action
plan to TEL Implementation Steering Group
Executive and TEL
Implementation Steering Group
Chair
Jan 2012
Action plan for 2012/13 implementation identified and
overseen by TEL Implementation Steering Group
TEL Implementation Steering
Group
March 2012
Module support
Audit of Bb and agreement on minimum expectation
across all modules
Learning Technology Group and
TEL Implementation Steering
Group (including student rep input
on minimum expectation)
Dec2011

11. Faculty TEL strategy : Outcomes
• Audit of Blackboard Usage and Blackboard
Minimum Standards
• Departmentally agreed strategies for
implementation
• Staff Development sessions identified
• Identification of 1 suitable programme
for delivery ‘online’

12. Re-alignment of support
infrastructure
• LET and TEL (It gets complicated!)
• Learning Educational Technologies (LET) and
Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL)
• New TEL unit established with an I-grade
academic and 3 new E-grade technologist posts

13. Course Developer

14. TEL - What we actually do …
• Set minimum standards for information on the
VLE
• Run workshops and taster showcases
• Help with the instructional design of learning
objects
• Help plan and deliver online learning
environments
• Desk side / Just in time support

15. Appropriateness

16. Scalability

17. Sustainability

18. Interoperability ??

19. TEL - Why we do it …
• Enhance ‘Student Experience’
• Modernisation of teaching
• Increased competitiveness nationally
• Increased competitiveness globally

20. Transformative
• Learners that feel more supported in practice
• Deliver our excellent teaching further
• An up-skilled academic work force
• Support teaching that encourages an
‘active’ learner

21. Problems I
• Cross campus
• Organically created support structure can
become complex to negotiate
• Lack of clarity of whom supports what
• Communication
• Politics

22. Problems II
• Outsourcing of use of technology to younger
members of the family
• Confidence and exposure
• Not understanding the basics
• The over fetishisation of acronyms
• Lack of literacy over what they are doing already

23. Change management approaches
• Hopeful approach
• Tool based approach
• Continuum based framework

24. Hopeful Approach

25. Tools based approach
• Staff supporting a range of supported tools
chosen by the Faculty
• Showcase Events to enlighten academics on
tools and approaches
• Training Events to help with the design
and implementation on specific tools

26. The Smorgasboard
Smorgasboard is a Scandinavian meal served
buffet-style

27. Why this approach?
• Creativity of academic not stymied
• Tools used appropriately
• Tools used where appropriate
• Help traverse steep learning curves
• Encourage self sufficiency
• Consistency in delivery

28. The supported software tools
• Blackboard Learn
• Adobe Presenter 8
• PebblePad
• uChoose

29. Project Specific tools
• WordPress (Public Health Pilot)
• Thinking Worlds (Nursing Simulation Pilot)
• Turning Point (Nursing Examination Pilot)
• iSpring (FdSc Health Sciences)
• MediaSite (FdSc Health Sciences)
• Xerte (Capita Project)
• Blackboard App (Learning Disabilities)

30. The supported hardware tools
1 x Computer Kinect
Multiple headphones
and microphones sets
8 x Bamboo Pads
1 x Bluetooth
Headset
1 x Multi-Pattern
USB microphone
6 x USB
Video & Still
Cameras
4 x Tablet
Laptops

31. Adobe Presenter 8
• Allows Presentations to be put online
• Allows classroom time to be freed up for
constructive sessions
• Allows quizzing at a distance
• Allows spoken information to be packaged and
delivered online

32. For the student
Pressure sore Quiz
NHS (Graphic)
Med Management Avatar
Faculty HLS UWE
Radiotherapy Planning 3
Faculty HLS UWE
Dummy Video Creator Content
Faculty of HLS UWE

33. For the academic
• Adds on to PowerPoint, no PowerPoint training
given here
• Training material curated with a prerequisite to
engage with before event
• Training “flipped”
• Must attend training to access
software

34. Adobe Presenter training
Time Section
40 minutes Introduction to Adobe Presenter with examples
20 minutes Thinking about the supporting pedagogy
120 minutes How to: Audio, Animation, Quizzes
20 minutes Discussion – Good practice and implementation
90 minutes Supported authoring and mop up

35. uChoose
• Branching stories simulation (Aldrich, 2005)
• Making case based learning more interactive by
using ‘Virtual Patients’
• Contextualises theory in practice
• A safe way to learn from mistakes If the
persons dies they can do it again)
• Re-plays offers different learning opportunities
• Student centred exploration of cases based on
their decisions

36. For the student
Virtual Patient: Chantelle
BryantNHS (Sensitive content)
Virtual Patient: Gerald
WaltersNHS (Insensitive
content)

37. For the Academic

38. uChoose training
Time Section
30 minutes Welcome and introduction to Case Based Learning
75 minutes Introduction to the uChoose application
60 minutes One to One authoring
30 minutes What next? Ideas going forward

39. Opening lines
“Two camps with technology those who love it and
embrace it and find it exciting but there are those who feel
that you lose a lot of the natural interactions that you may
get in a clinical situation by using a virtual patient. How do
we prepare people in a simulation environment for real
world interactions as a physio or a nurse?
The reality is there are positive and negative elements
associated with the use of virtual patients and actually it
can be quite challenging to develop such activities so we
must be mindful of these aspects from the start.”
Lucy Watkins, uChoose Lead

40. Events where we introduce different tools based
around Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL)
under two themes:
•Methods of delivering content
(Embedded Learning objects)
•Methods of facilitating learning
(Blogs, Wiki’s, e-Tivities, Virtual Classrooms)
TEL Showcasing Events

41. Fun atmosphere
• The idea is to get stuck in
• Just give it a go and demystify TEL
• Overcome lack of confidence
• Depoliticise the expectation
to engage with TEL

42. Outcomes of events
By the end of the 2 hour session academics would
have:
•Use a Bamboo Pad with unfamiliar equipment
Created a video on a ‘flip’ cam
•Uploaded video to Kaltura
•Create a page and updated a Wiki on Blackboard
•Use an embed code on within your pages .HTML

43. A typical showcase
Time Section
20 minutes Direction of travel with Technology Enhanced Learning –
the 3E framework ??
10 minutes The Blackboard Template explained
15 minutes Showcase of methods of delivering content
25 minutes Group Activity – Healthcare Pictionary using a Bamboo Pad
10 Minutes Coffee Break Activity – Record 30 second video about I
heart Glenside
10 Minutes Uploading content to Kaltura
10 Minutes Blogs, Wiki’s and facilitated spaces
15 minutes Embedding I heart Glenside video to a Wiki

44. Support structure
• Teach a man to fish …
• Frontloaded support

45. Revisiting the Smorgasboard
• A tools based approach is a less didactic way to
introduce TEL techniques
• Visibility
• It empowers the academic to think amd be
informed about how and where they would apply
a technique
• Relies on Academic identified learning needs
and drive
• The desire to drive has to be in place for this to
be effective

46. Benchmark framework
3E Framework
A different change management strategy?

47. Summary
• Here to support academics achieve TEL strategy
goals
• Currently holding two types of events
• Training on single tools
• Showcasing multiple approaches
• Aim to be appropriate in the usage and adoption
of tools to support a bespoke range of outcomes
• Events that allow large parts of hands on activity