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The SSBR team will facilitate a series of up to 26 thematic project cluster-group meetings or “assemblies”.Assemblies may take many different forms: seminars, workshops, mini-conferences, shared planning activities, site visits, etc. What they must do is bring projects together in an assembly. Each project will be asked to host one assembly in the duration of the programme. (Guidelines for hosting an assembly.) Each cluster might hold about 4 assemblies. Assemblies may be blended, face-to-face, online, distributed or collocated. The programme will be providing the Elluminate audiographic environment for distributed live meetings but projects would be encouraged to run their assemblies in their preferred environments as they wished. Second Life will be available for those that want to try multi-user virtual environments (MUVEs). Support can be given on the choice and operation of learning environments for project assemblies. Projects can apply through SSBR to the JISC for additional funding to support their assemblies using this form. Leicester College Aim: To share ideas of how to effectively engage with employers. To produce a “best practice” list of methods to share with the wider community. Room 0.06b, Freemen’s Park Campus Learning Spaces and Technology: the iBorrow project Date: Thursday 25th March 2010 Time: 11.00am – 4.30pm Location: Canterbury Christ Church University, Description: The conference will look at the lessons learned and insights gained from the iBorrow Project. This partly JISC-funded project provides 200 thin-client netbook devices within the new library and student services centre, available “as easily as picking a book from a shelf”. Desktop virtualisation deployed across a wireless network within the large-scale learning space now provides rich management data supporting an enhanced understanding of how students, academic and support staff are reacting to the way that the new resources have been configured. Who should attend? The conference will be of interest to anyone involved in planning new libraries, learning centres or learning spaces: senior managers, computing staff, library and information specialists. It will also be of interest to academics and other professionals working in learning, information and communications technologies, e.g. student services managers, educational developers, and learning technologists. For more information and to book a place go to http://www.canterbury.ac.uk/projects/iborrow/conference-2010.asp You are cordially invited to attend an open workshop on User Generated Contributions in Higher Education. The workshop is focused around the themes of Westminster’s recent JISC funded project TWOLER – studying student generated Web 2.0 content with Lightweight Enterprise RSS. Invitations to this event will also be extended beyond the academic community to selected thought leaders in the emerging world of Socially Generated Content and Web 2.0 in its broadest of definitions. For full details of the day and sign-up, just click here. Date: Friday 26th March 2010 Timings: 09:30 – 10:00 Arrival (Coffee/Tea, setup) If you have any question or require further assistence, you can contact The TWOLER project manager Iqbal Hussain on +44 (0)207 911 5000 x5413 Higher learning skills and good feedbackThank you to the EASiHE team for organising a very interesting, informative and enjoyable workshop on Wednesday 10th February. The workshop was attended by colleagues from Southampton University, including Trevor Bryant from the e-Assignment project, Robin Drinkwater from the ASSET project, University of Reading, and Roy Williams from the University of Portsmouth. The purpose of the workshop was to discuss and agree good practice for creating formative assessments for higher order learning skills that give outstanding, computer generated feedback. Before lunch there were three presentations from: Lester Gilbert – Theoretical underpinnings Bill Warburton – Assessing higher order skills Veronica Gale – Practical aspects of formative assessment of higher order skills All three presentations prompted stimulating questions and discussion. After lunch we participated in group work, led by Veronica Gale, in which we were asked to critically evaluate some example e-assessment questions and suggest principles for good practice. This was a very worthwhile activity, which generated a lot of discussion and allowed plenty of time for exchange of ideas and thinking. The workshop ended with a presentation from David Bacigalupo, about assessing large numbers of students (up to 300) at Warwick and Edinburgh Universities, and providing feedback within one day. As David pointed out, time for assessment is an issue for tutors, particularly in research led universities. EASiHE will be producing a publication on good practice in formative e-assessment to which the outcomes of this assembly will contribute. Jenny Mackness The ASSET Project Assembly was held on 14th January 2010 at the University of Reading. Throughout the day there were a number of presentations from JISC Institutional Innovation Projects (Strand 07/8) alongside a number of talks from colleagues based at other HEIs who are exploring the use of video, audio and other e-resources for enhancing staff and student engagement with feedback. The day ended with an open discussion looking at the pros and cons of using these technologies for feedback provision and included an exploration of the challenges faced when adopting new technologies at an institutional level; colleagues agreed that there was a need for institutions to maintain their desire for innovation, which was felt to be particularly important in the current financial climate. The ASSET team are now looking to the future and are hoping to work closely with existing networks to support innovations in feedback provision. Further details of the Project Assembly, including downloadable copies of the presentations, are now available on the ASSET website http://www.reading.ac.uk/asset/Dissemination/asset-ProjectAssembly.aspx The JISC Academic Networking Project will be holding their Assembly on Here’s a brief timetable of the day 10.30: 11.00-16.00: 16.00: If you’d like to sign up, or find out more about the Assembly please email katy@caret.cam.ac.uk, or call 01223 765357 HIGHER LEARNING SKILLS AND GOOD FEEDBACK Thank you to the EASiHE team for organising a very interesting, informative and enjoyable workshop on Wednesday 10th February. The workshop was attended by colleagues from Southampton University, including Trevor Bryant from the e-Assignment project, Robin Drinkwater from the ASSET project, University of Reading, and Roy Williams from the University of Portsmouth. The purpose of the workshop was to discuss and agree good practice for creating formative assessments for higher order learning skills that give outstanding, computer generated feedback. Before lunch there were three presentations from:
All three presentations prompted stimulating questions and discussion. After lunch we participated in group work, led by Veronica Gale, in which we were asked to critically evaluate some example e-assessment questions and suggest principles for good practice. This was a very worthwhile activity, which generated a lot of discussion and allowed plenty of time for exchange of ideas and thinking. The workshop ended with a presentation from David Bacigalupo, about assessing large numbers of students (up to 300) at Warwick and Edinburgh Universities, and providing feedback within one day. As David pointed out, time for assessment is an issue for tutors, particularly in research led universities. EASiHE will be producing a publication on good practice in formative e-assessment to which the outcomes of this assembly will contribute. Jenny Mackness The TELSTAR project is hosting an APEL assembly funded by JISC which will focus on current APEL processes and the potential use of e-portfolios to aid and support that process. The full agenda is below along with a registration form. Anita Walsh from the University of London will be presenting on APEL. Date: Mon 1st February 2010 Please confirm your attendance by Friday 22nd January 2010. With regards to the agenda, we’d like each project to briefly (5 mins or so) around the table inform the attendees as to how APEL as a process operates in your institutions to help inform best practice/challenges and so on. We look forward to hearing from you, T: 01772 89 4770 E: AYWright@uclan.ac.uk Date: Monday 1st February 2010 Time: 10 – 4 (with lunch) Location: University of Central Lancashire To register please confirm and return the following details to Amy Wright AYWright@uclan.ac.uk ***Please confirm your intention to attend by FRIDAY 22ND JANUARY 2010***
AGENDA 10.00 – 10.30 Arrival / Coffee & Pastries 10.30 – 10.45 Welcome & Introductions 10.45 – 11.30 APEL Presentation – Anita Walsh, Birkbeck College, University of London 11.30 – 13.00 Existing APEL Processes within institutions 13.00 – 13.45 LUNCH 13.45 – 14.30 PebblePad Overview 14.30 – 16.00 APEL & PebblePad- The Way Forward? Coffee will be served mid-afternoon ————————————————– REGISTRATION FORM
Please also confirm whether you require PARKING and any FOOD REQUIREMENTS that you may have. Once confirmation has been received you will be sent directions and room details. We look forward to seeing you. The TELSTAR team Community workshop: IPR and copyright when sharing educational resourcesUniversity of Southampton, 14 December 2009Introduction:IPR for OER: sharing experiences and solutions by Alison Dickens, Director of HumBox ProjectAli Dickens got us off to a prompt start, helpfully reminding us that panic and anxiety were being dealt with in a different academic gathering at the Avenue Campus in Southampton. This message was indubitably a helpful reassurance to the 40 or so visitors we welcomed to the University of Southampton. We had gathered to explore the many questions related to IPR and educational resources in open sharing and to understand ways in which we, as a community, can begin to address them. Ali scoped the currently existing landscape for the area in a succinct presentation. We were at the start of a day ‘of two halves’ – in the morning we were to share experiences, current practices, attitudes and concerns and identify the real issues. During the afternoon, we would be addressing concerns, looking to manage the risks and to consider possible workflows to enable pracitioners across the academic community to access some real tools. Ali stated the core question as: what are the real risks associated with OERs and how can these risks be managed? The HumBox Project: practical issues in IPR for OER by Erika Corradini, Digital Rights Officer on the HumBox ProjectErika provided an excellent summary of the practical issues which the HumBox Project (OER project based at the HE Academy Subject Centre for LLAS, Southampton) has already faced. Erika offered a useful, compact workflow diagram to be used for guidance by creators of educational content. IPR for OER by Hugh Davis, Director of Education (with responsibility for elearning), University of Southampton and director of EdShareHugh provided us with an entertaining, and stimulating. He described the current position of the VLE in UK HE institutions – a good, safe place in which academics can lodge their teaching resources, neither visible nor accessible for collaborative development. In EdShare, Southampton has developed an educational share which provides a low-threshold simple deposit location for teaching resources with no copyright checks, no quality control and a specific take-down policy. Hugh identified specific issues of concern to three particular stakeholders in the educational resources space: Institutions: showcase educational resources – for reputational as well as recruitment reasons; to make money; to improve collaboration and reduce redundancy across resources; to exercise Quality Assurance on teaching resources; access metrics based on activity around resources; remove the risk of losing access to resources when an academic leaves; store ‘crown jewels’; be confident that the university will not be sued; ensure that what is seen publically does not undermine the university’s reputation. UK PLC: the creation of these resources has been publically funded and should be in the public domain, the resources can facilitate ‘learning for life’; the world class quality of UK HE can be demonstrated to the international student market. Hugh, from his perspective as director of education with responsibility for elearning challenged the University of Southampton to develop its own clear, educational resource policy to facilitate the continued, responsible and effective development of learning resources. Workshop discussion: Issues and experiences – what are the risks involved in publishing in open content? How likely are they to become real?We divided into four, facilitated groups (identified prior to the event on the basis of mixing academics, IPR specialists, librarians etc.). The task was to identify specific risk issues for IPR in educational resources and then to assign a likelihood that the risk might arise. Finally, if time allowed, we were to identify ways in which the risk might be managed. We broke for a short but enjoyable and satisfying lunch. IPR in OER: managing risk by Diana Galpin, Heaad of LASS Team and Senior Legal Adviser, Research and Innovation Services, University of SouthamptonShe provided us with an excellent overview of IPR with respect to education resources prefacing her talk with a statement that what she supports personally is a fundamental commitment to OER tempered by the imperative of acting responsibly. Diana declared her interest in working with Hugh Davis in the University of Southampton to develop a new, workable policy towards IPR in educational resources. An innovative IPR checking tool by Will Fyson and Les Carr, Department of Electronics and Computer Science, University of SouthamptonLes Carr has a 3rd year undergraduate students, Will Fyson, who has very recently begun work on developing a practical tool designed to highlight all of the images in a .pttx file, the image identified then links to a search tool – currently primed to search automatically Flickr. By deploying this resource, content creators can search Creative Commons licensed, or copyright-free images available on the web in order to ensure that they reduce to the very minimum any likelihood of their resources infringing current copyright rules and regulations. The final session of our day long event was devoted to a panel discussion. The members of the panel being: Diana Galpin, Les Carr, Chara Balasubramaniam (St George’s Medical School, London), Jason Miles-Campbell (JISC legal, University of Strathclyde), Anna Comas-Quinn (The Open University) and chaired by Hugh Davis. The introduction to the session: Who should engage with copyright within institutions? was provided by Oren Stone, Digital Rights Officer on the HumBox Project. There was a lively exchange during this session and this brought the whole day to an excellent end. Ali Dickens committed us to communicating further with the community and to implementing some of the suggestions provided for us on the suggestions forms included within the Workshop packs. This work is now beginning to emerge and we will be publicising more actions in the near future. Debra Morris Erika Corradini December 2009 TAG Assembly http://www.uclan.ac.uk/health/research/tag/retention_show_tell.php Wednesday 9th December, the University of Central Lancashire (UCLAN), Preston. The assembly was well attended by 25 people from the following institutions: UCLAN including three UCLAN students, the University of Hertfordshire, Liverpool John Moores University, University of Cumbria, University of Bradford, University of London, Queen Margaret University, University of Bolton, University of Oxford, University of Westminster, Edge Hill University and Leicester College. The programme in the morning included presentations from: Lucy Warman TAG (The Alternative Guide to UCLAN) Project, UCLAN TAG is a JISC funded research project that aims to explore the impact the creation of a dynamic, interactive, web based platform of support, which enables potential students to develop realistic expectations of HE will have on retention. Lucy Stone HELLO (Higher Education Lifelong Learning Opportunities) Project, Leicester College HELLO is a JISC funded project which uses Moodle and Mahara to support part-time students in accessing the curriculum, social networking and forming links with external employers Becka Currant Develop Me! University of Bradford Develop Me! is an umbrella term for a number of different activities all designed to support students effectively during their time at University. The activities help students manage the transition into and initial engagement with Higher Education level studies, develop their skills and confidence and ultimately succeed at University. Tim Fernando Erewhon, University of Oxford Erewhon has produced “Mobile Oxford” a new service for the University of Oxford as well as the citizens of its city. It provides a wealth of information and location sensitive services that are instantly accessible on any time of web capable mobile phone, giving students, staff and visitors the information they need simply and effectively. A common theme which ran through all the projects was the way in which technology is being used to aid student retention. Critical to this process is liaison between various groups – the students themselves, the students’ union, student services, University central services and external agencies, such as employers and local councils. The ability to overcome resistance to the project developments and effectively communicate and work with these different groups was seen as critical to the success of these projects. Full details of the presentations can be found on the TAG website at http://www.uclan.ac.uk/health/research/tag/presenter_project_information.php The afternoon session was facilitated by Lawrie Phipps, the JISC Institutional Innovation Programme Manager. Lawrie introduced the JISC Building Capacities Programme, which aims to provide funding to Institutions who wish to implement the outputs and recommendations of previously funded JISC projects. For further information about the Building Capacity Programme on Lawrie’s blog. The day provided a very good mix of informative presentations interspersed with plenty of time for questions and discussion. There is clearly further scope for a number of institutions to work together to share strategies for improving student retention. The Assembly was successful in initiating this process. With many thanks to the TAG team at UCLAN for their hospitality. Jenny Mackness (Create Support Team member) 12-12-2009 |
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