Virtual and Augmented Reality at School. Disruptive Innovation in Education.Carlos J. Ochoa Fernández
Virtual and Augmented Reality presentation at ICERI 2016 (International Congress of Education Research and Innovation). A profund analisys about the VR&AR technologies and their impact in Education Sector.
Speaker: Scott Hibberson, subject specialist (online learning and the digital student experience), Jisc
This workshop will build confidence to design and deliver a digital curriculum – one that will prepare students to learn successfully in digital settings, and to thrive in a digital world.
Three activities will be introduced and attendees will be encouraged to share ideas about completing them. Participants will then be able to take away the associated resources and complete, reflect on and follow up the activities in their own time.
Virtual and Augmented Reality at School. Disruptive Innovation in Education.Carlos J. Ochoa Fernández
Virtual and Augmented Reality presentation at ICERI 2016 (International Congress of Education Research and Innovation). A profund analisys about the VR&AR technologies and their impact in Education Sector.
Speaker: Scott Hibberson, subject specialist (online learning and the digital student experience), Jisc
This workshop will build confidence to design and deliver a digital curriculum – one that will prepare students to learn successfully in digital settings, and to thrive in a digital world.
Three activities will be introduced and attendees will be encouraged to share ideas about completing them. Participants will then be able to take away the associated resources and complete, reflect on and follow up the activities in their own time.
The role of UK higher education (HE), further education (FE) and skills sectors in developing student employability is clear. Technology can be an enabler to the development and communication of employability skills, but are organisations and employers making best use of it?
This presentation aims to share and discuss the emerging themes and ideas being generated through our student employability project, which explores how technology can best support students to develop and communicate the skills that are needed for the workplace.
The presentation informs participants of what has been learnt so far and engage them in discussions. We will:
Share emergent themes including issues and opportunities from the study
Share, discuss and build on ideas for what organisations, programme teams and we can do to enhance student employability and the use of technology.
Presenters:
Lisa Gray, senior co-design manager, Jisc
Peter Chatterton, independent consultant, higher education
Geoff Rebbeck, independent consultant, further education and skills
Who will find this useful?
The presentation will be of interest to anyone across HE, FE and skills with an interest in how students develop and communicate employability skills, primarily:
Senior managers with responsibility for employer responsiveness and employer engagement
Academic/teaching staff with an interest in employability
Technology-enhanced learning and academic enhancement roles
Employability leads
Staff with responsibility for personal development planning (PDP)
Careers staff.
This e-guide is addressed to professional trainers and educators willing to extend and develop their knowledge and awareness in the field of digital training, more particularly when delivering through an e-learning platform.
The Guide is a product made thanks to the DIGITAL-S in rural Areas project.
The project is carrying out by 5 partners: CEIPES – International Centre for the Promotion of Education and Development (Italy), Familles Rurales (France), SSW Collegium Balticum (Poland), INFODEF- Instituto para el Fomento del Desarrollo y la Formación (Spain) and CPIP – Center for promoting lifelong learning (Romania) and it is funded by the European Commission within Erasmus+ programme, Key Action 2 (Strategic Partnership for Innovation, Exchange of good practices and for adult education).
DIGITAL-S aims to experiment and develop the effective use of ICTs for trainers willing to keep pace with digital technology in the field of training. The project will particularly focus on distance education learning for adult learners from rural areas having urgent specific needs to enhance their digital skills as an essential European key skill.
The new field of Learning Design provides ways to describe innovative teaching strategies, and methods for their online implementation. Last Monday Professor James Dalziel, Director, Macquarie E-Learning Centre Of Excellence (MELCOE), Macquarie University ran a workshop at INSPIRE on this topic. James was in Canberra as part of his Australian Learning and Teaching Council National Teaching Fellowship. The first half of this workshop covered Learning Design concepts and implementation, examples from the "LAMS" Learning Design system, and a discussion of recent development and future prospects for the field. The second half of the workshop was opened up for discussion, questions and exploration of examples, including consideration of the connections between Learning Design and Curriculum Design. Keith Lyons has blogged about the workshop here and the James's powerpoint slides are here.
Building a digital environment to support the development of your students’ d...Jisc
Speaker: Sarah Davies, head of higher education and student experience, Jisc.
This interactive workshop will discuss how we can ensure our digital environment offers our students’ opportunities to develop their digital capabilities.
We will share the outcomes from our recently completed Jisc student digital experience tracker surveys of over 22,000 students from higher education, further education and skills as well as online learners. These findings will highlight key areas we need to be addressing to ensure our students’ digital capabilities are supported.
Participants will also explore resources and tools they can use in their own organisation to support their practice.
Here is the PowerPoint that the Chesapeake High presenters used at the 2010 MSA National Conference on the VLE. The videos in the presentation will be available at chesapeakehighmsa2010.pbworks.com.
Making a difference with technology-enhanced learning - Chris Thomson, Esam B...Jisc
Led by Chris Thomson, subject specialist for online learning and the digital student experience, Jisc.
With contributions from Esam Baboukhan, advanced practitioner, City of Westminster College.
There will be a focus how technology can support learning and teaching for a better student experience.
Local providers will be sharing how their technology-based approaches have made a difference for learners and teachers.
Connect more in London, 28 June 2016
A presentation sharing the findings from our 2020 student digital experience insights surveys together with an overview of our new questions for the 2020-21 surveys of students, teaching and professional services staff and researchers.
The session will offer opportunities for colleagues to share their experiences of how students are adapting to the changes bought about by the pandemic.
By Ruth Drysdale, senior consultant - data and digital capability, Jisc and Sarah Knight, head of data and digital capability, Jisc
A learning system based on formalized teaching but with the help of electronic resources is known as E-learning. While teaching can be based in or out of the classrooms, the use of computers and the Internet forms the major component of E-learning.
Designing strategically aligned credentialing systems with open badges to eng...Jisc
Open badges are digital credentials that earners can display anywhere on the web. They are underpinned by an open accreditation infrastructure developed by Mozilla, which enables the issuing of open badges to recognise granular achievements gained through formal and informal learning opportunities and to capture attributes not picked up in formal qualifications, such as the individual qualities that could help a student stand out in the job market. This workshop will focus on effective open badge system development, introducing Mozilla and Jisc toolkits to support badge system design and a strategic approach to implementing open badges in a formal education context. The session will be led by Mozilla and Jisc, and will include tips, case studies and guidance on best practice in badge system design. Participants will gain hands-on experience with tools they can use for developing open badge systems for motivating learning, supporting engagement and progression and enhancing employability.
Speakers:
Dr Clive P L Young, advisory team leader digital education, information services division, UCL
Nataša Perović, digital education adviser, UCL
ABC is an effective and engaging hands-on workshop that has now been trialled with great success over a range of programmes.
In just 90 minutes, using rapid prototyping, teams work together to create a visual ‘storyboard’ outlining the type and sequence of learning activities and highlight assessment and feedback opportunities.
Presentation made at the OER Camp Global 2021 – an Unconference on OER. The first 48-hour Festival for Open Educational Resources. December 09–11, 2021 | globally | BarCamp | via Zoom
The Mobile Learning infoKit is a developing resource from JISC infoNet launched at ALT-C 2011 alongside the new JISC publication Emerging Practice in a Digital Age (September 2011). Augmenting the Emerging Practice guide, this infoKit is a practical guide for educational institutions planning to implement a mobile learning initiatiative.
At launch, the Mobile Learning infoKit comprises a wiki-based resource collating information and guidance from JISC and other sources. It will develop to include a section on future trends, incorporate additional examples, and be made available in a variety of formats.
Hybrid Virtual Classroom - Do's and Don'ts - OEB - Dec 2021Zac Woolfitt
What are the characteristics of the Hybrid Virtual Classroom. What are the challenges facing teachers in the Hybrid Virtual Classroom? How has the pandemic accelerated this format and what can we learn from current teaching practice?
The role of UK higher education (HE), further education (FE) and skills sectors in developing student employability is clear. Technology can be an enabler to the development and communication of employability skills, but are organisations and employers making best use of it?
This presentation aims to share and discuss the emerging themes and ideas being generated through our student employability project, which explores how technology can best support students to develop and communicate the skills that are needed for the workplace.
The presentation informs participants of what has been learnt so far and engage them in discussions. We will:
Share emergent themes including issues and opportunities from the study
Share, discuss and build on ideas for what organisations, programme teams and we can do to enhance student employability and the use of technology.
Presenters:
Lisa Gray, senior co-design manager, Jisc
Peter Chatterton, independent consultant, higher education
Geoff Rebbeck, independent consultant, further education and skills
Who will find this useful?
The presentation will be of interest to anyone across HE, FE and skills with an interest in how students develop and communicate employability skills, primarily:
Senior managers with responsibility for employer responsiveness and employer engagement
Academic/teaching staff with an interest in employability
Technology-enhanced learning and academic enhancement roles
Employability leads
Staff with responsibility for personal development planning (PDP)
Careers staff.
This e-guide is addressed to professional trainers and educators willing to extend and develop their knowledge and awareness in the field of digital training, more particularly when delivering through an e-learning platform.
The Guide is a product made thanks to the DIGITAL-S in rural Areas project.
The project is carrying out by 5 partners: CEIPES – International Centre for the Promotion of Education and Development (Italy), Familles Rurales (France), SSW Collegium Balticum (Poland), INFODEF- Instituto para el Fomento del Desarrollo y la Formación (Spain) and CPIP – Center for promoting lifelong learning (Romania) and it is funded by the European Commission within Erasmus+ programme, Key Action 2 (Strategic Partnership for Innovation, Exchange of good practices and for adult education).
DIGITAL-S aims to experiment and develop the effective use of ICTs for trainers willing to keep pace with digital technology in the field of training. The project will particularly focus on distance education learning for adult learners from rural areas having urgent specific needs to enhance their digital skills as an essential European key skill.
The new field of Learning Design provides ways to describe innovative teaching strategies, and methods for their online implementation. Last Monday Professor James Dalziel, Director, Macquarie E-Learning Centre Of Excellence (MELCOE), Macquarie University ran a workshop at INSPIRE on this topic. James was in Canberra as part of his Australian Learning and Teaching Council National Teaching Fellowship. The first half of this workshop covered Learning Design concepts and implementation, examples from the "LAMS" Learning Design system, and a discussion of recent development and future prospects for the field. The second half of the workshop was opened up for discussion, questions and exploration of examples, including consideration of the connections between Learning Design and Curriculum Design. Keith Lyons has blogged about the workshop here and the James's powerpoint slides are here.
Building a digital environment to support the development of your students’ d...Jisc
Speaker: Sarah Davies, head of higher education and student experience, Jisc.
This interactive workshop will discuss how we can ensure our digital environment offers our students’ opportunities to develop their digital capabilities.
We will share the outcomes from our recently completed Jisc student digital experience tracker surveys of over 22,000 students from higher education, further education and skills as well as online learners. These findings will highlight key areas we need to be addressing to ensure our students’ digital capabilities are supported.
Participants will also explore resources and tools they can use in their own organisation to support their practice.
Here is the PowerPoint that the Chesapeake High presenters used at the 2010 MSA National Conference on the VLE. The videos in the presentation will be available at chesapeakehighmsa2010.pbworks.com.
Making a difference with technology-enhanced learning - Chris Thomson, Esam B...Jisc
Led by Chris Thomson, subject specialist for online learning and the digital student experience, Jisc.
With contributions from Esam Baboukhan, advanced practitioner, City of Westminster College.
There will be a focus how technology can support learning and teaching for a better student experience.
Local providers will be sharing how their technology-based approaches have made a difference for learners and teachers.
Connect more in London, 28 June 2016
A presentation sharing the findings from our 2020 student digital experience insights surveys together with an overview of our new questions for the 2020-21 surveys of students, teaching and professional services staff and researchers.
The session will offer opportunities for colleagues to share their experiences of how students are adapting to the changes bought about by the pandemic.
By Ruth Drysdale, senior consultant - data and digital capability, Jisc and Sarah Knight, head of data and digital capability, Jisc
A learning system based on formalized teaching but with the help of electronic resources is known as E-learning. While teaching can be based in or out of the classrooms, the use of computers and the Internet forms the major component of E-learning.
Designing strategically aligned credentialing systems with open badges to eng...Jisc
Open badges are digital credentials that earners can display anywhere on the web. They are underpinned by an open accreditation infrastructure developed by Mozilla, which enables the issuing of open badges to recognise granular achievements gained through formal and informal learning opportunities and to capture attributes not picked up in formal qualifications, such as the individual qualities that could help a student stand out in the job market. This workshop will focus on effective open badge system development, introducing Mozilla and Jisc toolkits to support badge system design and a strategic approach to implementing open badges in a formal education context. The session will be led by Mozilla and Jisc, and will include tips, case studies and guidance on best practice in badge system design. Participants will gain hands-on experience with tools they can use for developing open badge systems for motivating learning, supporting engagement and progression and enhancing employability.
Speakers:
Dr Clive P L Young, advisory team leader digital education, information services division, UCL
Nataša Perović, digital education adviser, UCL
ABC is an effective and engaging hands-on workshop that has now been trialled with great success over a range of programmes.
In just 90 minutes, using rapid prototyping, teams work together to create a visual ‘storyboard’ outlining the type and sequence of learning activities and highlight assessment and feedback opportunities.
Presentation made at the OER Camp Global 2021 – an Unconference on OER. The first 48-hour Festival for Open Educational Resources. December 09–11, 2021 | globally | BarCamp | via Zoom
The Mobile Learning infoKit is a developing resource from JISC infoNet launched at ALT-C 2011 alongside the new JISC publication Emerging Practice in a Digital Age (September 2011). Augmenting the Emerging Practice guide, this infoKit is a practical guide for educational institutions planning to implement a mobile learning initiatiative.
At launch, the Mobile Learning infoKit comprises a wiki-based resource collating information and guidance from JISC and other sources. It will develop to include a section on future trends, incorporate additional examples, and be made available in a variety of formats.
Hybrid Virtual Classroom - Do's and Don'ts - OEB - Dec 2021Zac Woolfitt
What are the characteristics of the Hybrid Virtual Classroom. What are the challenges facing teachers in the Hybrid Virtual Classroom? How has the pandemic accelerated this format and what can we learn from current teaching practice?
An overview of the changes within Jisc and the offer to the Skills Sector. Information on the Jisc Security certificate, Prevent duty and e-safety. As well as links to useful resources and guides etc.
New options for transferring money internationally for payments to/from global customers (whether you are the client or the vendor) and how to minimize fees and exchange rate costs in doing so. Helps you assess your own unique needs for this task and how to create a strategic and money-saving approach to this task.
Prediction 2016 with Forrester Research: APIs take center stage for banking I...Apigee | Google Cloud
Forrester predicts that significant digital shifts are coming to financial services in 2016, one of which is the increased focus on APIs. With the spread of apps and handheld devices, consumers increasingly expect to have services at their fingertips, in real time.
Scottish Initiatives in e-Learning - Enhancement-Led Innovationdrdjwalker
Slides from keynote presentation given at UK Heads of e-Learning Forum (HeLF) 10th Anniversary Event. Slides reflection on a cross section of key Scottish e-learning initiatives, and their impact, over the last 10 years.
This presentation highlights the outputs of the Jisc technology for employability project. The presentation was delivered at the Scottish Assessment Conference in January 2016 which focussed on the Scottish government strategy of Developing the Young Workforce.
Chisholm Institute presentation - Neil MorrisNeil Morris
Blended learning and digital technologies for the VET sector
Professor Neil Morris
T: @NeilMorrisDT
Presentation at Chisholm Institute, Melbourne, June 2022
How you can enhance your efficiency and effectiveness for teaching and learni...Jisc
Led by Sarah Knight, senior co-design manager, Jisc.
With contributions from:
Dave Monk, e-learning development coordinator, Harlow College
Yousef Fouda, group vice-principal, Warwickshire College
Connect more in Nottingham, Tuesday 12 July 2016.
UOW Exemplar Moodle Site with DLT’s - Lynley Clark, Blackboard and Denise Spa...Blackboard APAC
The University of Wollongong and Blackboard have collaborated to develop an exemplary course for staff that demonstrates best practice for digital learning within Moodle. In 2015, the University implemented a set of minimum expectations and good practice elements called the Digital Learning Thresholds (DLT). The DLT strategy supports the principle that all students will have access to digital learning and both staff and students have clear expectations about the use of digital learning within the curriculum. This session will be co-presented by Lynley Clark from Blackboard and Denise Spanswick from the University of Wollongong (UOW). It will discuss how Lynley and a small team of Educational Designers from UOW worked together to incorporate the DLT elements into examples of activities and resources within a Moodle site with the aim of providing a model or exemplar to develop staff’s understanding of digital learning in a way that could more easily translate to their own subject development and an exceptional learning experience for UOW students.
How Resilience Academy and GeoICT4e project uses DigiCampus to deliver 21st C...Msilikale Msilanga
The presentation is focusing on demonstrating different ways that the Digicampus platform is used to deliver multi-competence training to youth and university staff for future employability
This presentation about Open Education focuses on Open Educational Practice and Open Access. It was delivered as part of the Jisc Digital Leaders programme on 20th November 2015. The presentation was collaboratively put together by @celeste_mcl (focussed on OEP) and @hblanchett (focussed on Open Access).
Exploiting the inclusive and innovative use of technology in a 21st century o...Celeste McLaughlin
This presentation was delivered by myself and colleague Margaret McKay at the SDF Staff Developers Conference in April 2015. The first part of the presentation focuses on innovative use of technology including augmented reality and mobile learning. It also highlights the need to have appropriate digital literacy/digital capabilities to make appropriate use of innovative technology.
The second part of the presentation focuses on inclusive learning and provides an overview of the importance of incorporating inclusivity into everyday practice. The presentation highlights how technology can be exploited to ensure that the duties within the Equalities Act 2010 are met.
Digital Rewards for CPD: Developing a digital practitioner series of Open Bad...Celeste McLaughlin
This presentation was delivered at a SHED (Scottish Higher Education Developers) CPD event in November 2014. The focus is on Open Badges as a digital rewards for CPD and outlines the development of the Jisc RSC Scotland digital practitioner series of Open Badges. Further information about the event - https://scottishhedevelopers.wordpress.com/meetings/past-shed-events/2014-joint-jisc-shed-cpd-event-open-education/.
This presentation was delivered to a Moodle forum facilitated by Jisc RSC Yorkshire & Humber in May 2014. The presentation gives a brief overview of Open Badges, highlights the Open Badges developed and issued by Jisc RSC Scotland, and highlights how Open Badges have been issued by Borders College for staff CPD.
This presentation was delivered at City of Glasgow College during their CPD week in June 2014. The presentation gives an overview of blogs, media sharing tools, digital curation tools, and social networking tools, giving exemplars of how these tools have been used in an educational context.
This presentation was delivered as part of webinar for e-Learning staff at Borders College in February 2013. A number of case studies are highlighting which demonstrate effective assessment practice.
This presentation was delivered as part of an event at the University of the Highlands and Islands in August 2012. The presentation gives a number of examples of how mobile technology was being used in the UK tertiary education sector.
This presentation was delivered as part of the Scotland’s Colleges/College Development Network Dangerous Ideas event. The focus is open education and sharing of open educational content. The presentation was delivered by webinar in June 2012.
June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
A Strategic Approach: GenAI in EducationPeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
Acetabularia Information For Class 9 .docxvaibhavrinwa19
Acetabularia acetabulum is a single-celled green alga that in its vegetative state is morphologically differentiated into a basal rhizoid and an axially elongated stalk, which bears whorls of branching hairs. The single diploid nucleus resides in the rhizoid.
Francesca Gottschalk - How can education support child empowerment.pptxEduSkills OECD
Francesca Gottschalk from the OECD’s Centre for Educational Research and Innovation presents at the Ask an Expert Webinar: How can education support child empowerment?
Welcome to TechSoup New Member Orientation and Q&A (May 2024).pdfTechSoup
In this webinar you will learn how your organization can access TechSoup's wide variety of product discount and donation programs. From hardware to software, we'll give you a tour of the tools available to help your nonprofit with productivity, collaboration, financial management, donor tracking, security, and more.
2. » Jisc offers digital services and solutions for UK education and research. The charity does this to achieve its vision for the UK
to be the most digitally advanced education and research nation in the world.
» Working together across the higher education, further education and skills sectors, Jisc provides trusted advice and
support, reduces sector costs across shared network, digital content, IT services and procurement negotiations, ensuring
the sector stays ahead of the game with research and development for the future.
» Find out more at www.jisc.ac.uk
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4. » Jisc Digital Student project – investigated student expectations and experiences of technology
» Phase 1 – HE experience
» Phase 2 – FE experience (completed May 2015)
› Desk review of 63 reports from FE sector
› 12 focus groups with 220 FE learners
› Six national consultation events
» Findings from Learners’ expectations and experiences of the digital environment in the Further Education and Skills sector:
A review of the literature conducted for the Jisc FE Digital Student Project, Metaxia Pavlakou and Rhona Sharpe, 2014 -
http://digitalstudent.jiscinvolve.org/wp/files/2014/12/JISC-FEDS-lit-review-Dec19-branded.pdf
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5. » Benefits
› Allows access at times that suit learners e.g. travelling
› Portable – anywhere, anytime learning
› Contextualisation of learning (e.g. use of location features such as GPS)
› Capture and record data and learning as it happens
› Peer and student-centred learning
› Promotes active learning
› Provides bite-sized e-learning
› Reduces technical barriers to e-learning
» Effective use in colleges requires strategic approaches – rolling out of wifi and BYOD policies
» Can blend and blur traditional boundaries between informal and formal learning – not necessarily a bad thing.
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6. » Tools to plan and organise learning such as reminders, mind-mapping tools and audio note taking can help and support
learnings during their studies
» Case study: Using AudioNote to record notes in a Psychology class at City of Glasgow College - http://www.rsc-
scotland.org/?p=5002
› This is an example of the AudioNote app being used successfully by an HNC Social Care student to create accurate
records of lectures. He has dyslexia and struggles to take legible hand-written notes and the effort of note-taking
distracts him from what is being discussed. The AudioNote app records the lecture whilst the student types minimal text
(mostly key words). Lecture slides can also be captured using the in-build camera on the iPad he is using. Using the app
also helps the student engage in group work; enabling him to capture comments from team meetings.
» Tools to support the learning process and can be used to create interactive resources and collaborative activities. These
include digital curation tools such as Pinterest and Scoop.it. Other tools include Voicethread, Polleverywhere, Socrative,
and Educreations or Explain Everything.
» Case study: Wraparound e-assessment for Core Skills Communication at Cumbernauld College - http://www.rsc-
scotland.org/?p=2465
› This example highlights the use of self-contained learning objects (grammar chunks) that contained an explanatory
video, made with the Explain Everything app.
› Explain Everything was used with an iPad turning it into an interactive whiteboard enabling the creation of video tutorials
incorporating handwriting, text, images and a voiceover.
› The videos were made available in Moodle and a quiz was created for each video.
› Student feedback about the videos and quizzes was very positive and were described as “fun”, with students scoring high
marks in the quizzes (90%) and they appreciated the immediate feedback.
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7. » Technology Enhanced Learner Support in Construction (TELSiC) Project at the City of Glasgow College - http://www.rsc-
scotland.org/?p=2163
» Project aimed to engage learners with the pre-vocational construction curriculum by:
› Empowering learners to develop essential skills
› Providing tailored teaching approaches and resources to meet their personal learning needs
» Project enabled purchase of 20 iPads enabling:
› Interactive learning
› Learner centred personalised learning
› Contextualised learning through augmented reality
› Use of a wide range of apps:
– Educreation app: students write on interactive whiteboard to answer the Khan Academy Question
– Mindmapping app (MindJect Maps) to help students plan their work
– Presentation app (Prezi) used for showcasing student work
– Online storage (Dropbox) used for students to save their work on the iPad
» Identified benefits
› Creation of interactive, contextualised, multi-sensory teaching and learning materials
› Enhanced student engagement
› Improved achievement with students empowered to monitor their learning
› Collaboration between different departments in the college
› CPD opportunities for staff
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8. » Academic staff consider social media to enhance the quality of the learning experience, however some consider it to be a
distraction. The most popular tool was YouTube (ETNA 2012)
» Case study: Stranraer cutting crew Facebook - http://www.rsc-scotland.org/?p=2163
› A Facebook group was set up – this was requested by students and was a student led group
› Used initially for general communications between learners and tutors
› Secure groups created for all hairdressing courses
› Use expanded to include:
– School links students posted pictures of practise styles they created at home and received tutor feedback
– Peer feedback was used constructively by learners and helped foster strong feelings of community and peer support
amongst learners
– Mobile devices were used to allow access to the learning platform and access an online consultation sheet allowing
learners to post and comment whilst on work placement
– There has also been a focus on employability with a secure group has also been created for local salon owners
› Using the Facebook groups encouraged learners to take ownership of their course and learners engage more, welcome
feedback and communicate with their peers and the course tutor
» Case study: Pinterest: The Art of Digital Curation at Cumbernauld College - http://www.rsc-scotland.org/?p=2437
» Pinterest is a social pinboarding site which allows users to collect and share images and website.
» The “pinned” website images are arrange on boards fro different topics.
» Used by the former Cumbernauld College with NQ Art & Design students
» Used by Art lecturer and students to compile and share boards about specific artists and boards relating to learning
outcomes
» Focus on images collections ensures students remain more focused
» Students also create sites to collate and share ideas with each other (peer learning)
» Started to be used in other areas to introduce students to the concept of research using the internet – of particular
relevance to curricular areas that are visual in nature e.g. fashion and beauty
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9. » Good student feedback:
› “I use Pinterest all the time. I made some boards on the same topics as our course units and I use them for
inspiration. I’ve made other boards on artists that interest me – people I found myself. I have a board for called
“Random, One Off Art” for things I intend to draw soon. When I get enough of my own work together, I’ll put
up a board on Pinterest.”
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10. » Technology enhanced assessment is much wider than online muti-choice quizzes. A number of technologies can be used to
demonstrate student competency including:
» Using e-Portfolios to evidence that specific skills have been demonstrated
» Virtual worlds can be used to provide simulations and authentic settings for assessment
» Games can be used to help learners demonstrate ability and comprehension by completing a task before they move on
to the next level
» Blogs can be used to demonstrate competency and understanding, and can be effective reflective tools
» Online polling can be used to gain a quick overview of understanding
» Automatically marked quizzes can provide feedback and help students see how they are progressing
» Case Study: Assessment through podcasting and video production at Borders College - http://www.rsc-
scotland.org/?p=232
» HNC Interactive Media students participated in a number innovative assessments including the construction of a podcast
equivalent to the 1800 reports identified in the unit spec.
» They also created a script for broadcast purposes and filmed and edited a short film based on the script. The film was
embedded in a site and made available to ‘clients’ (local organisations) demonstrating their employability skills via the
assessment.
» The quality of completed projects delivered to clients has increased significantly through the introduction of innovative
teaching methods
» Case study: Using QR codes and mobile technology with hairdressing and beauty therapy students at Perth College -
http://www.rsc-scotland.org/?p=232
› QR codes were used to access a number of interactive resources including quizzes and formative assessments
› These were accessed using smartphones so no need to book computer labs for these activities
› Activities could be completed outside class, promoting self-directed learning
› Has promoted discussion and reflection on activities
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11. » Summer of student innovation project - https://www.jisc.ac.uk/rd/projects/summer-of-student-innovation
» 2015 FE competition ideas - https://elevator.jisc.ac.uk/e/3-fe-learner-led/ideas
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