Slides to support a discussion at ColegauCymru CollegesWales HE in FE Network, 12 April 2013.

1. Technology to enhance learning
Update to ColegauCymru / CollegesWales
HE in FE Network
Lis Parcell
HE Coordinator
@lisparcell
@rscwales http://www.slideshare.net/lisparcell/
ColegauCymru / CollegesWales HE in FE
Network 120413

2. What’s new?
• Reshaping Jisc http://bit.ly/XGFC97
• Welsh Government Online Digital Learning
Working Group http://bit.ly/ZdsLta
• CollegesWales Jisc Advance iTunes U project
• http://collegeswalesitunesu.blogspot.co.uk/
• Increased focus on Open Educational Resources
(OER), Massively Open Online Courses (MOOC).
Useful links:
– http://www.jisc.ac.uk/oer
– http://bit.ly/YPlgsQ

3. Opportunities: Digital Literacy
• Digital literacy
– “By digital literacy we mean those capabilities which fit an
individual for living, learning and working in a digital
society.”
– Developing Digital Literacies Programme
• http://bit.ly/17uzQcw
• Two Welsh projects
• PADDLE (five North Wales colleges) http://bit.ly/12Plbsq
• Digidol (Cardiff University) http://bit.ly/YgUeH6
• Disseminating throughout 2013
– Digital Literacy organisational review http://bit.ly/152mJiR
• Jisc RSC Wales working with other RSCs across the UK
• Could be used eg to support a college’s HE provision

4. Opportunities: events
• All details at http://bit.ly/RSCWalesevents
• Lunchtime Bytes – one hour webinars
– Focus on Open Educational Landscape
– April 23rd Finding free and open resources
– May 13th Online learning at scale: responding to the MOOC
invasion
– May 24th More on OER and MOOC (details soon)
• 9 May – F2F Workshop on Developing and implementing
your strategy (Swansea)
• Summer conference: Encouraging Innovation
– 18 June online
– 26 June face to face (Cardiff)
– Details on our website in the next week

5. Social media for student engagement

6. What’s your experience?
• How do we use social media to help HE students to
“belong” and develop their identity as HE students?
– Any examples of how your college is using social media to
engage with HE students?
– Any challenges are there for colleges when using social
media for HE engagement?
• Some Jisc resources on social media for engagement
– http://bit.ly/152peSz
– http://bit.ly/10Z2AFw
• Jisc RSC Wales Guide – out later this term. Contact Lis
Parcell for more info or if you would like to review a
draft

7. Staying in touch
e.j.parcell@swansea.ac.uk
support@rsc-wales.ac.uk
www.jiscmail.ac.uk/rsc-wales-higher-ed
Lis Parcell 01792 513261
Helpdesk 01792 295959
@rscwales
@lisparcell
www.jiscrsc.ac.uk/wales
http://www.slideshare.net/lisparcell/