using digital tools to meet institutional objectives

Phil RichardsLearning Technologies Manager

Phil RichardsLearning Technologies Manager

Using Digital Tools to Meet Institutional Objectives

October 2011

Phil RichardsLearning Technologies Manager

A College Wide Approach

• Every unit/ course delivered has a VLE area – it assumed this will be used appropriately

• College Strategic and Operational Plans contain aims / objectives for ICT use

Phil RichardsLearning Technologies Manager

Everyone Needs the Skills – extract from Operational Plan 2011-12

• Objective LT1 – to ensure that all staff working in the College have the necessary skills to use and populate the VLE with high quality learning resources in a range of media and formats

• Objective LT2 – to develop the skills of staff in order to make maximum use of available communication tools and functionality and develop the VLE to best suit their needs

Phil RichardsLearning Technologies Manager

Training / Sharing Good Practice• Mandatory for all staff to do course in

using Blackboard• EPICT• Most other staff training courses online• Communities of Practice• Demonstration Days – lecturers showed

colleagues how they use digital tools• ILT Newsletter

Phil RichardsLearning Technologies Manager

Curriculum for Excellence

Phil RichardsLearning Technologies Manager

Examples of CfE in Action

• Student views - Social Sciences

• Social care scrapbook

• Explanatory interaction - Social Sciences

Phil RichardsLearning Technologies Manager

Case studies we could offer• Two centre course taught by one

lecturer and facilitated by video conferencing

• Using reflective online journals / developing eportfolios

• Developing interactive content for use in a VLE

• Assisting lecturers to develop skills in using digital tools

Phil RichardsLearning Technologies Manager

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