Speakers: Allen Crawford-Thomas, subject specialist (strategy and business process), Jisc Martin Peoples, ‎head of technology enhanced learning and support, North West Regional College

1. Northern Ireland
Tuesday 19 June

2. Harnessing digital technology
Allen Crawford Thomas and Martin Peoples

3. Digital challenge
Educators have always been innovators. Early electronic visual learning
aids like film projectors or television sets were adopted by teachers to
enhance lesson content and learning

4. Digital timeline
Joseph
Licklider1960
National
Physical
Laboratory
(UK)
1970
The first
dot com
domain
registered
1985
The World
Wide Web
goes live
1991
•Google
•Social
media
2000
•Smart
devices
•Artificial
intelligence
2015

6. Promise v Reality
Provide more time
Improve student engagement and
motivation
Extend opportunities for learning
Improve accessibility and inclusion
Improve efficiency will lead to short and
long terms benefit
Digital skills take time to acquire
Poor results make it easier to turn back
to what works
Technical issues can undermine
individual confidence
Digital good practice is hard to distill and
to up scale

7. Martin Peoples

8. »TEL Health Check,
external
»Self Evaluations
»Learner feedback
Where we are
»Round table – facilitated by
Allen (JISC)
»TEL Users Group, VP
Curriculum +
»Produced set of Strategic
Priorities (SPs)
Where we want to be
NWRC Digital Strategy - Process

9. »Describe why, what, how
»Action Plan developed
»Mechanism for delivery
»Communications
SPs – added narrative and actions
»LMT
»TEL Users Group
Strategy out for consultation
NWRC Digital Strategy - Process

10. Activity

11. Activity
Think about your own organisation and it’s digital journey
Where are we now?
Are we where we
want to be?
If not, whats missing
And, what needs to
be done?

12. Seeing a strategic approach
• Analysis data
• Trends (PESTLE)
• External forces
• Internal capability
• Choice
Know why
• Communication
• Vision
• Values
• Policy
State intent • Define what success looks like
• Developing the necessary
capabilities
• Business processes
• Performance management
• Project management
Plan how

13. Digital strategy
ILT or e-learning
strategy
Digital strategy

14. Final thoughts
“It’s only by understanding the motivations of all parties that you can
develop a digital vision that has purchase and buy-in across the whole
institution.This is something that every institution has to embrace and
engage in.” professor MalcolmTodd University of Derby
"Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time.
What we really want is for things to remain the same but get better."
- Sydney J. Harris
Digital capability is a journey and not a destination

15. Except where otherwise noted, this work is licensed under CC-BY-NC-ND.
Allen Crawford Thomas
Subject specialist (strategy and business
process)
a.crawford-thomas@jisc.ac.uk
Thankyou
Tel 07468 727174