Transcript CNWL Supporting Higher Education in Further Education

HE in FE: Using e-Learning to
support students in the workplace?
Charles Engola – LRC Adviser
Tony Delahunty - E-Learning
Development Co-ordinator
Jenny O’Callaghan – LRC Assistant
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College of North West London
•3 sites in Brent, North West London.
•Stepping stone to employment or higher
education
•To lead in the provision of knowledge and skills
for work, in support of London's economic
success.
•Feb 2007: successful OFSTED inspection
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HE Programmes
• 344 approx students per year
– Foundation Degrees (Part-time)
• Construction, Building Services Eng
• ICT, Comp Eng
– BTEC Higher Nationals (Full and part-time)
– Teacher Training
– Interpreting
• Internal progression is frequent
• Links withUniversities:
– Middlesex
– Westminster
– Reading
– Thames Valley Univ.
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HE validation/approval
• 4 successful validations from 3
separate universities since 2003
• Quality assurance: “confidence in HE
programme” (QAA/HEFCE inspection, 2005)
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HE graduation
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ILT Strategy
• Targets in CNWL Strategic ILT Implementation
Plan, eg:
– All schemes of work, assignments, and mock
exams are on the Student Intranet for full time
courses
– 50% of courses using the student intranet
provide material that enable learners to study
at their own pace
– Student Intranet (VLE) available at anytime
• Parallel targets in School of HE in FE
Implementation Plan
- need for separate strategy?
• SMT support critical
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ILT Team
• 2 (now 3) dedicated ILT Support
• Established specialist LRC support for
curriculum staff, students
• LRC staff work as part of ILT team,
can upload and link materials on VLE
• LRC attained Matrix Accreditation
2006; AoC BEACON highly
commended
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ILT (E-Learning) implementation
• VLE – all staff and students have
College email and VLE
access/remotely
• LRC manage resource acquisition
• Ongoing staff training programme,
plus ILT Champions
• Infrastructure & Equipment –
networked computers in all
classrooms, LRCs
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VLE (CNWL Online)
• Moodle-based (since 2005)
• All staff and students have open access
within VLE (‘roaming’ allowed)
• Students get induction with lecturers
and/or LRC
• Remote access very important (20%
across whole College)
• Aim is to unify resource access via VLE
(= Student Intranet)
• Focus tends to be more on resources than
activities
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VLE: front page
• Opens up as home page at start-up
• What’s New: ensures VLE does not look static, stale
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“Typical” Course Area on VLE
• Maintained by Lecturers
– Scheme of Work, Course Handbook
– Worksheets, Presentations
– Assignments
– Interactive Content, e.g. NLN Materials, Multi
Choice Quizzes, Hot Potatoes Activities
– Links to Web Resources
• Exam Past Papers
• Standards, uniformity, quality control – still in
development
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VLE: Course Layout
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VLE: Resources…
•Barbour for technical indexes, info
•Access via VLE within college, or remotely
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VLE: Assignments,
Communication
•Developing use of online assignments
•Developing use of email to students using VLE
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VLE: Exam Past Papers
• Lecturers send
past papers and
assignment
specs to the LRC
annually to
make available
on VLE
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02 January 2007
53 January 2007
52 December 2006
50 December 2006
48 December 2006
47 November 2006
45 November 2006
44 October 2006
42 October 2006
SUMMER
25 June 2006
23 June 2006
22 May 2006
20 May 2006
18 May 2006
17 April 2006
15 April 2006
13 April 2006
12 March 2006
10 March 2006
09 February 2006
07 February 2006
05 February 2006
04 January 2006
02 January 2006
52 December 2005
50 December 2005
48 December 2005
47 November 2005
45 November 2005
44 October 2005
42 October 2005
40 October 2005
VLE: Usage Statistics
Student Weekly Hits (VLE Courses), Oct 2005- June 06, Oct 2006-Jan 2007
18000
16000
14000
12000
10000
8000
6000
4000
2000
0
• Number of Students Logging In to the VLE (all
course areas), arranged into weekly totals.
• These are number of hits, not number of
students
• Long-term trend rising, with dips in academic
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holidays
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VLE: Usage Statistics
Curriculum
Area
•Student hits
by Curriculum
area
•Hits also
recorded for
individual
courses, or
indeed
resources
•Need to
correlate with
achievement,
etc
Nov 2006 hits
(students)
Increase
Over Year
(%)
Computing
5996
11229
87%
Electrical & Electronic
4840
13713
183%
Learning Resources
2325
2306
-1%
ICT: Information and Communications
Technologies
1882
7148
280%
Building Crafts, (includes Brickwork)
1221
572
-53%
Maths & Science
1100
864
-21%
Access Courses
715
836
17%
Mechanical Services Engineering
608
2170
257%
Media Design & Art
558
1524
173%
Plumbing, Gas, Heating
478
6057
1167%
Key Skills
463
226
-51%
ESOL ALL
457
3042
566%
Health & Social Care
395
103
-74%
Accountancy
375
495
32%
Automotive
284
3107
994%
Student Services
195
6915
3446%
Higher Level Technology Courses
(School of HE)
180
639
255%
Literacy, Numeracy, English
172
744
333%
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Nov 2005 hits
(students)
eLearning
for HE
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in FE
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VLE: Usage Statistics
• Taking students only, roughly 20-30% of
access is from outside the College, eg from
home or a workplace
 Proportion from outside the College
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appears
to
be
rising
(29%
in
Jan
2007)
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E-resources: Usage Statistics
• Access to resources measured, need to look
at impact
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Students’ portfolios
• Students tend to have ad hoc
portfolio on flash drive
• Some assignments on VLE
• Relevance for transition to University,
work? Some exchange – e.g.
Students may use PDP in CNWL
assignments, and in workplace, job
applications – but not standardised
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E-portfolio?
• College looking at emerging
ePortfolio options
• Some possibilities in Moodle, or with
Elgg, PetalPad: not yet robust or
smooth
• Need for standardisation or
personalisation?
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Resources online - constraints
• Cultural resistance from staff
• Time constraints
• Learning curve
• Perception of unreliability
• Current model working – why
change?
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Resources online - constraints
• Cost of HE resources
• Appropriateness of online medium
for e.g. technical drawing
• Complexity of some resources, eg
CAD/CAM
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Future development
• Employer engagement, access
• Interactive learning
• Student file area – ie construct and
display own work, ePortfolios….
• Collaboration with partner
universities?
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Issues, Questions
• HE in FE funding disparity
• Student Fees disparity
• Measuring Impact
• Quality, standards of online
resources, VLE: external
benchmarks?
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HE in FE: Using e-Learning to
support students in the workplace?
Thanks for your attention
www.cnwl.ac.uk/vle
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