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Page 1: E-Learning trends in HE An overview of the Higher Education Academy and its role in supporting HE in FE Lawrence Hamburg Associate Director and Head of.

e-Learning trends in HE

An overview of the Higher

Education Academy and its

role in supporting HE in FELawrence Hamburg

Associate Director and Head of e-LearningHigher Education Academy

RSC Conference – HE in FE & e-Learning solutions

Page 2: E-Learning trends in HE An overview of the Higher Education Academy and its role in supporting HE in FE Lawrence Hamburg Associate Director and Head of.

• Where are we now with e-Learning in HE?

• What are we trying to achieve?– What’s on the horizon

• Where we are moving to in terms of learning– Personalised student learning

• The role of the Higher Education Academy

• What is the HE Academy doing to support HE in FE?

Some questions to answer

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• What is e-learning?

• Not a single entity

• A development of educational processes driven by possibilities enabled by new technology

• Perceived benefits, DfES, SHEFC, HEFCE e-learning strategies – ‘embedding’, ‘transformation’

The state of e-learning in UK HE

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• ICT as a communication tool is widely used by students and staff.

• Tools such as the WWW and email are

becoming common practice.

• Numerous examples/case studies of staff using

the WWW in their teaching to provide additional

resources and support for their students.

Where are we (1)?

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• Institutional Learning and Teaching strategies increasingly make references to their chosen VLE (Virtual learning Environment) and MLE (Managed learning Environment) as the institutional VLE becomes more embedded

• However, the use of ICT to deliver substantial proportions of course materials and to provide an integrated approach to student-teacher and student-student interactions is much less widely established.

Where are we (2)?

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• Management commitment and organisational structure – a lack of understanding?;

• Willingness and ability to invest (what are the actual benefits – can we cost them?);

• Competing resources – staff time and rewards (research –vs- teaching in HE)

• Lack of skills in the emerging area of learning technology (those that can do, but what about the rest and what’s the motivation);

• Lack of examples of appropriate models for using e-learning to improve campus-based learning;

• Lack of affordable, reliable tools and technical infrastructure within universities; and

• Uncertainty as to the pedagogic effectiveness of e-learning.

Why isn’t it happening?

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Three broad approaches to e-learning:

– At one end . . . wholly based e-learning primarily for students studying at a distance(?) – UKeU (e-Universities) model – web delivered

– At the other end . . supportive e-learning - conventional face-to-face campus based teaching supplemented with additional electronic resources – web enabled

– An ‘embedded’ approach - e-learning replaces some face-to-face teaching - this does not necessarily mean less staff/student contact, but requires reflection and consideration of the whole course/module design/delivery/assessment process – web facilitated

e-learning alternatives?

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What does the future hold?

• Next five years – more of the same, i.e. fairly predictable

• 10 years time – all bets are off – we can guess, but think back (say) 15 years as to how HE teaching and learning has changed

• How do we plan for something we can’t predict?

• Move towards personalised student learning – removing institutional barriers to learning

• Boundaries between HE and FE eroding?

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– Personalised student learning – P(VLE) and more• Blackboard, WebCT etc tools• Home grown & open source tools

– Move away from institutional focus

– Recognition of student as lifelong learner

– Regional agenda

– PDP – Personal Development Planning

– ePortfolios• Reflection• Planning• Presentation

– ePortfolios and assessment?

ePortfolios – more than a P(VLE)?

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– Three approaches to the technology

• Commercial – e.g Blackboard – PVLE?

• Open source – e.g. www.theospi.org, http://electronicportfolios.org

• Home grown

– Wolverhampton University – Personal Development Planning tool – reflective – http://pace.wlv.ac.uk

– University of Denver – allows collaborative development, although focus on presentation

ePortfolios – examples

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• Needs to happen at institutional level – need to build capacity and capability – not just about infrastructures

• March 2004 Implementation of the SFEFC/SHEFC joint e-learning report

• £3m for FE and £3m for HE over 2 yrs

• Bidding process (single institution and collaborative) to support institutions in making the necessary step changes

• Not focused on e-learning as a separate entity, but suggests bids that address specific needs, for example:

– transition between FE and HE, – assessment– Student skills– Widening Participation – discipline specific approaches, e.g. mathematics

SFEFC/SHEFCScotland’s ‘transformational’ change agenda

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• DfES consultation results on website – over 50% in favour of identified areas.

• A unified approach: “The achievement of their potential for all learners: An education workforce empowered to change”.

• Blended learning approach favoured.

• 5-year strategies (DfES and HEFCE) to be published end 2004/early 2005

• HEFCE working on their strategy:

– Sounding board meetings

– Higher Education Academy/JISC joint response

DfES and HEFCE e-learning strategies

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Higher Education AcademyThe HE Academy is a new organisation (1 May 2004) which incorporates:

Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (ILTHE)Learning and Teaching Support Network (LTSN) – subject centresNational Co-ordination Team (NCT)National Teaching Fellowship Scheme (NTFS)

'The Higher Education Academy is concerned with every aspect of the student experience. It will provide coherence, added value, inclusivity and a powerful emphasis on the needs of stakeholders.‘

Paul Ramsden, Chief Executive

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Higher Education AcademyGeneric Themes:

The HE Academy has appointed Senior Advisers to work across a range of generic themes, for example:

e-Learning

Employability

Assessment

Widening Participation

HE in FE

Senior Advisers are supported by Project Officers and work with subject centres and other organisations, e.g. in the area of e-Learning with the JISC, RSCs, ALT.

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Academy 24 Subject Centres

Medicine, Dentistry and Veterinary science

Bioscience Health Sciences and Practice

Social work and Social policy

Sociology, Anthropology and Politics

Physical Sciences

Engineering Psychology Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Materials Education in the Built Environment

Maths, Statistics and Operational Research

Information and Computer Sciences

Economics Legal Education

Languages, Linguistics and Areas Studies

English History, Classics and Archeology

Philosophical and Religious Studies

Art, Design and Communication

Performing Arts

Hospitality and Leisure Studies

Business, Management and Accountancy

Education

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Subject Centres - key purposes

Through a discipline focus:

– promoting and sharing good practices in learning, teaching and assessment

– brokering the transfer and take-up of knowledge and practice between users, experts, developers and innovators

– setting up, supporting and developing L&T networks

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Subject Centre approaches (1)Information & resources

• on-line databases and resources

• publications,briefings and guides

• case studies• questionbanks• news feeds and online

updates• enquiry service• journals and books

Profile and awareness• newsletters and e-bulletins• surveys and needs

analyses• subject community events

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Subject Centre approaches (2)Brokerage

• links with subject academics and professional bodies

• practitioner focus• connecting expertise with needs• consultancy & advice• funding projects• supporting Ped. Research• harvesting good practices • creating partnerships and

collaborations• facilitating key subject issues

Engagement

• workshops, seminars and conferences

• department based activities

• awaydays and joint events

• benchmark clubs

• services - student surveys

• special interest groups

• regional groups & networks

• Departmental contacts

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Subject Centres and and e-Learning

• Subject Centre examples– Engineering– Medicine– English

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Distributed elearning ProgrammeWhy are the JISC and Academy working together?

• To foster a closer collaboration and strategic alliance between the JISC and Academy.

• To address both pedagogic and technical issues

• To explore issues associated with the sharing of e-learning resources

• To engage with and help inform and develop the overall JISC framework.

• To provide a mechanism for subject centres to discuss, share and develop their e-learning approaches and experiences.

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Higher Education Academy

3 year plan for supporting higher education delivered in further education colleges in

England

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Rationale and Funding

• Given the current levels of participation, and the likely increase in the number HE students studying in the FE sector it is appropriate that the Higher Education Academy should support staff in this sector.

• To this end, the Academy has received £500,000 over three years from HEFCE to establish a programme of support for enhancing HE learning and teaching provision in FE colleges from 2004-05 onwards.

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Principles

• A focus on enhancing the student experience• Recognise the distinctiveness and diversity of the

further education sector, and the delivery of HE in FE

• Responsive to the needs of colleges and practitioners in FECs

• Be outcomes based, demonstrating impact• Collaborative whereby we work within existing

support frameworks and infrastructures

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Key Objectives• Provide an effective means for staff supporting HE in FECs to

engage with the wider support infrastructure for improving student experiences in HE.

• To share access to HE information and resources.

• To share good practice and work with colleges to enhance management strategies and policies to improve all aspects of the HE student experience.

• To combine efforts with key partners to deliver a coherent and integrated support infrastructure to enhance HE learning and teaching policies and practice in FECs

• To promote professional and scholarly development to increase the professional standing and recognition of all staff supporting HE in FECs.

• To develop a stronger evidence-base of effective practice to improve the quality of the student experience.

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Key Outcomes

• Improved access to and use of appropriate resources and materials by HE staff in FECs to enhance HE provision in FECs and the overall HE student experience.

• Effective strategies and policies to enhance the student experience deployed in FECs.

• Increased body of knowledge and evidence to inform HE policy and practices in FE colleges.

• Professional development of staff teaching HE in FECs.• Coherent and integrated infrastructure of support and

advice operated by the Academy and key partners.• An effective regional support infrastructure.

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What the HE Academy will do

• Promote means to share appropriate resources and materials

• Promote and support professional and scholarly staff development

• Promote recognition of HE staff in FECs• Facilitate research on key enhancement themes• Broker programmes of support on thematic areas

concerning the HE student experience in FECs, which will be decided in collaboration with staff in the FE sector

• Offer tools and approaches to assist senior managers to enhance HE student experience

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How the HE Academy will do this (1)• Appoint a Senior Adviser for HE in FE

• Dedicated web-site for FE based users, with links to appropriate resources and materials.

• The production and distribution of hard copies of resources and materials to reach FE staff with limited computer/internet access.

• Resources will be allocated to clusters of subject centres– relevant to the main subjects covered in FECs to deliver

appropriate activity and resources.

– to include training and networking events, the provision of specialist resources and possibly the secondment of FE staff.

– Academy-central staff and in particular senior advisers for employability, assessment, widening participation and HE in FE (depending on when the appointment is made) will work with clusters of subject centres to develop appropriate action plans.

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How the HE Academy will do this (2)• Support and develop existing regional infrastructures to facilitate

reaching and supporting HE staff in FECs.• Work in partnership with key agencies already established in

supporting FECs, particularly those working at a regional or sub-regional level – RSCs, LSDA, AoC, FDF, RDAs, QAA etc to deliver events, share resources and provide support and expertise.

• Offer workshops and events, targeted at defined groups on specific themes, probably in partnership with others (above).

• Establish a research programme and network to disseminate research findings.

• Promote and support the scholarly development of HE in FE staff.

• Develop our Registration and Accreditation functions to support staff development.