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The Southampton Learning Environment: CETIS. Hugh Davis Nov 2010. What is the SLE?. SLE – Southampton Learning Environment looking to enhance the student and staff experience around learning and living at UoS - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
The Southampton Learning Environment:
CETIS
Hugh DavisNov 2010
What is the SLE?
• SLE – Southampton Learning Environment
• looking to enhance the student and staff experience around learning and living at UoS
• Closely aligned with the Southampton Research Environment (SRE) and the Southampton Business Environment (SBE)
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Top Level goals:• make it possible to undertake every aspect of
livinglearningteaching
• support a wide range of pedagogical approaches
• a single place where you can go for
toolscommunicationcollaborationinformationresources
• act as a vehicle for reviewing and aligning our processes across the University
• provide much more flexible systems
• single login to all university tools and repositories
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appropriate to your role in the university
online
Why are we doing this?
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To improve student experience Students expect to be able to do things on-line, and find all the information they need on-line
To improve staff experience The current systems are limiting, hard to use and inflexible.
To make our graduates more employable
Employers expect their staff to participate, work and collaborate in globally distributed organisations
To introduce efficiencies In terms of standardising administrative processes associated with education
To enable us to scale up our numbers at little extra cost
By enabling alternative delivery mechanisms
•Remotely supported learning•Blended learning•Distance learning
To alleviate our teaching space problem
One of the solutions to this is to consider alternative delivery mechanisms
A technical view
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Tools, Services and Data
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E-Assignment
EdShare
Blackboard (or other VLE?)
Question Mark Perception
HR Records
Lecture Capture and Replay
Fees Payment/records
Room BookingsTimetable
Student Records
On-line Journals
Open Educational Resources
E-Books
Library Catalogue
Podcasting
The SRN
Student Handbook
Module selection Course Announcements
Uni/SUSU announcements
External RSS Feeds
Podcasts
On-line forms
Programme/Module Catalogue
WIFI STORAGE
COLLABORATIONSPACE
INTRANET
EXTRANET
EmailForums
Presence
Video Conferencing
Chat
PROFILES
CLASSROOMS
PUBLICWORKSTATIONS
INTERNALSOFTWARE
TurnItIn
Live@Edu
GoogleDocs
Delicious
Internal RSS Feeds
Communication tools
InternalServices
Institutional data
Infrastructure Cloud services
Push
Resources
DropBox
Search
SEARCH
A Rich Learning Environment
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The SLE• There are underlying implications for
• Technical infrastructure (WiFi, Storage)
• Identity Management
• Open Data
• How we design courses
• How we support curriculum design
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Agile Development:
• A new approach for majority of UoS
• Rapid and responsive
• Collaborative and challenging
• Enables progressive skill and output evolution and improvement over time
• Requirements must be agreed up front, delivered, then move on
• Needs focus on quality assurance and sign off of stages
• Potentially provides quick wins in basic form
The SLE Programme will be adopting these approaches wherever possible such that early benefits can be achieved for end users and tool interface and interconnectivity can be developed.
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SLE Proof of Concepts (PoC): potential quick wins
We will be making 4 week “sprints” to produce prototypes of:
•SUSSED replacement
•Blackboard replacement/upgrade?
•and others – e.g. The Student Dashboard
Our First PoC
• SUSSED 2.0 (replaces our aging Portal)
• Will provide:
– A launch page to tools
– A gateway to resources
– A profile page for the user
– Status information
• An excellent smart search function is highest priority
• Will allow the installation of widgets from an “appstore”
• Personalised and Personalisable
• Shared Workspaces
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EdShare http://edshare.soton.ac.uk
Some applications we are leading on:
• Let me personalise my personal timetable
• Let me select my options (fully informed)
• Let me book an un-used classroom near me for an SEG group meeting
• Tell me what bus I need to get from home to get to my next lecture in time
• Remind me of the name of my tutee who is standing in front of me now, and let me know their current progress.
First POC already conducted by SRE team:• Intranet for typical research activities
– Applying for a grant
– Setting up a grant team
– Pursuing research
– Managing a grant
– Disseminating research
– Updating an Academic CV
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Comments on Subversion
This is all really about making our university think about:
•The sort of educational experience they wish to offer
•The processes they need to support (e.g. assessment and feedback)
•Ensuring equality of provision
•Digital literacies and employability
•Coping with the climate
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