“How Can e-Portfolios Support 21st Century Learning?”
How Can e-Portfolios Support 21st Century Learning?
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Wednesday 30th March, 10am-4.30pm
The Culture Lab, Kings Walk, Newcastle University
This workshop draws on the experience of JISC-funded projects in e-portfolio developments, and demonstrates ways in which learning in Higher, Further & Continuing Education can be enhanced through e-portfolios.
The workshop will be facilitated by Chris Thomson of JISC Netskills, with presentations by: Lisa Gray (JISC), Susi Peacock (Queen Margaret University) and Robert Chmielewski (Edinburgh University).
Topics
* Introducing, understanding and investigating e-portfolios
* Putting e-Portfolios in context
* How e-portfolios work, developing a model
* The next steps in developing and embedding e-portfolios
* e-Portfolio processes including collaboration, reflection and responding to feedback
* Introduction to Effective Practice with e-Portfolios and e-Portfolios infoKit
* Examples of current systems and completed projects
Book your place now: bit.ly/hMqCuV
This workshop forms part of a wider programme running in Edinburgh, Birmingham, London and here in Newcastle. For more information on dates, topics, prices and locations see our website: bit.ly/fOpGJD
New dates for JISC Digital Media Workshops and Seminars
JISC Digital Media is pleased to announce new dates for a number of its workshops including;
Video Production 1: Lectures and Interviews TWO DAY course on the 11th and 12th of April 2011
Colour Management on the 14th of June 2011
Digitising Analogue Video on the 15th of June 2011
We also still have the last few places available for the ever-popular JISC Advance – Digital Media and Copyright Seminar to be held at Brettenham House in London on the 9th of March, as well as a few places left for our current workshop schedule here in Bristol, including Essential Photoshop Skills on the 25th of March.
For details and booking instructions for all our courses please follow the link below to out training pages.
bit.ly/2NsrKi
NLN Materials Survey Results
Below is a brief report on the NLN materials following the recent survey .
Details are also available on the Excellence Gateway www.excellencegateway.org.uk/page.aspx?o=313435
SUMMARY REPORT
The future of the NLN Materials service survey
The survey was live from Tuesday 21st December 2010 to Friday, 28th January 2011.
It was announced on the nln.ac.uk site, the Excellence Gateway, the ILT Champions mailing list and through JISC RSC channels, together with an email to all registered users .
Response and respondents
There were 271 respondents. 80% of these were from FE, 9% from ACL and just over 3% from work-based learning, with the remainder from other providers, national organisations or commercial organisations. There was an almost equal split between managers and tutors amongst the provider-based respondents, ensuring that both strategic and classroom perspectives were reflected in the responses.
Relevance and importance of the NLN materials
Despite the age of the materials, some of which are over ten years old, 91% of respondents considered them to be an important resource for staff and learners , with 43% saying they are very important .
One in three respondents named specific sets of materials as being particularly important. Their choices covered a wide range of subjects and areas.
77% of respondents thought it would be worthwhile to repair materials that no longer work because of dated technology, whilst 83% thought it worthwhile to update those that lack contemporary relevance (old fashioned, outdated practices etc).
The survey made it clear that there would be little or no funding for updating. 149 respondents thought providers would benefit from working together to carry out or support such updating, 65 of whom were willing to contribute to such a group and gave their contact details. 33 said that they/their organisation would be willing to lead a group.
Mode of engagement with the materials
The majority of users have downloaded some or all of the materials, with only 8% relying solely on online access. 23% had downloaded most or all of them and a further 60% had downloaded some. Despite this, there were continuing high levels of reliance upon online delivery of the materials through the nln.ac.uk site.
33% said they linked to materials through the Noodle application for Moodle, whilst a further 41% linked directly from their VLE, whether it be Moodle or another platform. 38% of these said that the workload involved in redirecting these links elsewhere – to another url or to an in-house server for example – would be substantial. Only 13% said that the workload would be minimal.
Preferred options
There was overwhelming support for the retention of the nln.ac.uk site in a cut down form that would continue to support direct links from provider VLEs. 44% of respondents considered it essential to retain the site and a further 29% viewed it as very important.
The same total percentage considered it essential or very important to maintain availability of the materials for download and 95% thought it essential that a source of advice and guidance on download be provided.
Total closure was considered unacceptable by 84%.
Additional comments
74 respondents took the opportunity to air other views about the future of the NLN Materials that we might take into account when determining a course of action. Overwhelmingly they supported the value of materials and the retention of online delivery. A number suggested that the materials continued to attract and be of value to new audiences, both existing tutors innovating their practice and new entrants into the field.
Next steps
LSIS, SFA and JANET have collaborated to ensure funding for the current nln materials service for the current academic year. There is no possibility of further funding after July 2011.
LSIS is committed to listening to the views of sector practitioners and managers and trying to keep the service alive if it is at all possible. We have been talking with Xtensis and JANET, who currently run nln.ac.uk, to explore ways for LSIS to continue the core service into the future. We are also working with a number of partners including Excellence Gateway Advisory Groups and Worcester College of Technology to see how we might go about setting up communities of practice to update the resources.
We will make an announcement within the next two weeks about our plans for the future of the nln materials.
Commenting on the HEFCE Review of JISC
Information about the HEFCE Review of JISC is now available on the JISC Advance website www.jiscadvance.ac.uk/index.php/news/story/164
If you would like to make a comment about the Review, or are contacted by people you know who want to make a comment or observation, please go to the commentable version of the Review on JISCPress at hefcereview.jiscpress.org/ and register any comments there.
Funding opportunity
JISC Techdis have launched two funding opportunities, which require organisations to develop feasibility proposals in the area of assistive technology and are part of the SBRI (Small Business Research Initiative) programme. The programme encourages innovative solutions to specific public sector needs by engaging a broad range of companies in competitions that result in technology development contracts.
The first SBRI competition; ‘Making Waves,’ is designed to enhance communications, a learned skill and a basic human right. Learners with disabilities though, may lack independence due to an inability to communicate by speech or lack of motor control.
The second; ‘Plain Sailing’ focuses on enabling users to produce and access navigable and personalisable digital information independently, anytime, anywhere, in a user-friendly way.
A total of £500,000 has been set aside, which is likely to fund 3 or 4 contracts in each competition and organisations that may be interested in entering can find out more information at www.jisctechdis.ac.uk/sbricompetitions. Additional enquiries can be sent to helpdesk@techdis.ac.uk.
Closing date for entries: Noon 15th March 2011.
JISC Techdis
JISC Techdis have launched a new website and corporate identity at the LSIS Embracing Technology conference on the 2nd Feb.
” We are keen to show JISC Techdis in a cohesive manner, recognising that we are part of JISC and one of eight JISC Advance services. Our visual identity represents what we stand for and contributes to helping us ensure that our communications are clear and memorable.
Our new logo and our Brand Guidelines explainign how it should be used are available to download from our new website in various formats
Would you please ensure that, where you need to refer to JISC Techdis in print and electronic media, you use the new logo in future and do your best to update existing online content as soon as possible.”
Andrew Chandler
Information & Communications Manager
JISC Techdis
JISC Advance and LSIS sign Concordat
JISC Advance and LSIS have signed a Concordat outlining future working arrangements, launched at the LSIS Embracing Technology conference on the 2nd Feb.
This will be supplemented by a dynamic appendix to address practicalities. A working group of LSIS staff – Barry Kruger, Markos Tiris and Terri Kinnison and JA/RSC representatives Angela Harvey, John McKenzie and Marion Miller has been established to forward this initiative.
JISC Netskills – updated logo and VI guidelines
As part of ongoing work on the JISC Netskills visual identity, we have begun using a new logo and have published guidelines for its proper use. Further details are available on our website:
www.netskills.ac.uk/content/about/brand/
We kindly request that you cease using the old Netskills logo with immediate effect.
All new print work should use our new logo (eps formats are provided). Please also update your websites and online content, replacing the old logo with the new one (PNG format). We appreciate that updates take time, but request that online changeover happens by Monday 4th April.
JISC Celtic FE funded projects announced
7 one year funded projects have been confirmed as part of the SWaNI Learning Teaching Innovation Grants.
Reid Kerr College – xGames
Coleg Sir Gar – Smart Work-based learning Administration through Networked Information (SWANI)
Coleg Gwent – MObile messaging And communiTy Education (MOtivATE)
Coleg Llandrillo Cymru – Using peer eGuides to promote digital literacy (PEDL)
Pembrokeshire College – Without a Paddle
Jewel & Esk College (JEC) – Synchronous Web Enabled Employee Training (SWEET)
North West Regional College – Try before you apply
Rob Englebright wishes to thank all RSC staff who assisted in marking bids and supporting the process so far – which will be continued by RSC advisors in the Celtic nations liaising with the project.
JISC Advance Service updates
Join colleagues from across JISC Advance on regular monthly updates starting Friday 21st January 2011.
When: 3rd Friday each month from 12.30 – 1.30, login from 12.15
How:via Elluminate with recordings being made available
https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?password=M.E84C4EFB66C7122A8607C01892E93E&sid=2009077
Who: Advisory Services and RSCs representing different national emphasis. In January meet Netskills and RSC Wales.
Why: A cost saving, efficient way of keeping up to speed with latest developments and planned activities
What: A mix of presentation and Q&A
BCE case studies
The JISC Advance BCE Team have published a range of case studies that highlight some of your work within the business and community engagement landscape. They’re currently available via the JISC BCE Blog – bce.jiscinvolve.org/wp/jisc-advance/
Over the following weeks we’ll release each case study as a single blog post to highlight them individually. Please feel free to repurpose the material on your own site or point to them directly.
We also wanted to highlight how grateful we are for your help in developing the material, thanks everyone!
Kind Regards
Andy Stewart and the BCE Team
Elluminate Wednesday: Academy/JISC OER Programme: implications for curriculum design and delivery
Jan 26th 13.30 – 14.30
The Academy/JISC OER Programme began in April 2009 with a pilot phase designed to discover issues related to OER release across three areas– institutional, subject communities and individual academics – with a view to informing further work. The second phase began at the end of August 2010 and is currently taking this work forward. Sharon Waller from the Academy will begin with an overview of the aims of the programme and its two phases of work and Lou McGill will provide an insight into some of the findings of the pilot phase. Helen Beetham will introduce you to some of the ongoing phase two work and consider how this might link with emerging issues from the JISC Transforming Curriculum Delivery Through Technology and Institutional Approaches to Curriculum Design Programmes. There will be an opportunity for discussion around this aspect. Attendees will also be introduced to a range of resources to facilitate further investigation.
To register, go to bit.ly/Gm9Ni. You will be sent joining instructions in advance of the session.
The Elluminate web site contains useful guides and tutorials on using Elluminate. Online orientation and quick guides are available at www.elluminate.com/support/
JISC Digital Media Online Surgeries 2011
With so much educational content now delivered via computer screen – be it PowerPoint presentations, web pages and services, software demonstrations and training, or digital media – the process of capturing what you are doing on your computer and packaging this screen capture as an effective and accessible learning resource has become more and more important.
To reflect this growth in screencasting the JISC Digital Media team will be running a series of online surgeries in the New Year:
19/01/11 The major technical issues surrounding screencasting
26/01/11 Considerations for screencasts as teaching and learning support
resources
02/02/11 Using a screencast as a lecture capture tool
09/02/11 Using a screencast to provide feedback
To find out more or to join any or all of the on-line surgeries please go to www.jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk/surgery
Please contact training@jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk with any questions.
JISC Digital Media Spring Training Schedule
JISC Digital Media is pleased to announce its workshop and seminar schedule for spring 2011.
Returning workshops include popular newer offerings ‘Building Effective Screencasts’ and ‘Video Production’ as well as our still image-based
training in Image Metadata, Digital Photography and Colour Management.
A new date has also been set for the new JISC Advance ‘Digital Media and Copyright’.
For the full details of the training schedule please follow the link below;
<bit.ly/2NsrKi>
Please contact us on training@jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk with any questions.
JISC Netskills workshops for Spring 2011
JISC Netskills workshops will be delivered in Edinburgh, Newcastle, Birmingham & London, including a range of one-day workshops and multi-day BTEC accredited training.
Places are limited – book early to avoid disappointment (workshops won’t be available again until June-July 2011)
Thu 24th Feb
CSS: A Complete Web Style Toolkit
bit.ly/gbk3nU
Fri 25th Feb
Writing for the Web
bit.ly/f99ll5
Mon 28th Feb
An Introduction to Instructional Design for e-Learning bit.ly/fV8iZp
Wed 2nd – Fri 4th Mar
e-Learning Essentials: BTEC Certificate bit.ly/hh9FPg
Tue 8th – Wed 9th Mar
e-Learning Fundamentals: BTEC Award
bit.ly/g3XDU2
Wed 9th Mar
Collaborative Tools to Support the Learning Experience bit.ly/hhg3pd
Thu 10th Mar
Exploring Digital Storytelling
bit.ly/eRaYwL
Thu 17th Mar
An Introduction to Instructional Design for e-Learning bit.ly/dSdhSi
Tue 22nd Mar
Programming for Web Developers
bit.ly/gvfuL8
Tue 22nd – Thu 24th Mar
Essentials of Training Skills: BTEC Certificate bit.ly/ezut9x
Wed 23rd Mar
Community Participation with Blogs and Social Networking bit.ly/gt3Tvs
Wed 23rd Mar
PHP: Primed and Ready
bit.ly/ifKjAK
Thu 24th Mar
Collaborative Tools to Support the Learning Experience bit.ly/icsXIl