YMCA Awards' Hooked on Technology event held on the 24th of September 2015.

1. Tools are often enablers rather than drivers :
“Technology is available to develop either independence
and learning or bureaucracy and teaching” (Ivan Illich,
Deschooling Society, 1971)
Developments in Digital Learning Technology
and Harnessing these on a Budget
Steve Wileman - Educational Technology
Consultant
Product Development Manager
Smart Assessor

3. • With tightening budgets and the disappearance of Train to Gain, it is becoming more difficult for employers to justify workforce
training and development.
• The threat to continuity of service is evident and a radical change is needed to facilitate this drive.
• Many colleges use Private Training Provider as an effective way of increasing learner numbers and widening or consolidating their
offer.
• Private Training Providers will have to ensure that their offer reflects current funding priorities and integrate further with existing
college/client services
• Requires the services of a multi-functional team with significant technology experience offer/utilising learning environments best
suited to client needs
• Need to provide:
• Quality of provision in a landscape of funding pressures and reduced delivery hours
• More engaged learners, new assessment methods and ways of working, as well as making time and cost savings.
• The best cost effective multi function technologies to support innovation and improvement delivery,enabling immersive learning
and inspiring teaching
• However, various cost saving solutions can be adopted to ensure a more synchronous digital institute.
• Hardware
• Software
• Infrastructure

4. Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)
Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) — use the devices learners already have and are
familiar with in teaching and learning environment
A willingness to look beyond the traditional virtual learning environment to
technological solutions that bring learning into our learner’s space
Investment in Wi-Fi infrastructures to facilitate reliable, robust, fast connectivity
Off set pc replacement program with resilient “future proof” Wi fi (pc reduction
year on year)
Plan BYOD into Vision statements & delivery methods
“Realignment of learning vision, leadership, culture, design, methodology, pedagogy and assessment may require
upfront investment in infrastructure and human resources.”
Bob Harrison - Feltag

5. Holistic planning
Wider Vision statements
• The increase in availability of mobile devices and Wi-Fi,
staff and learners are beginning to exploit social media
tools to support learning and teaching, whether as part of
assignments or group activities
• Support the creation of more informal personal learning
networks.
• Learners are on the go, always connected, and demanding
to engage with their institution in a variety of ways
• Create a community with peers to share news, ideas
about teaching and learning
• Most institutes today recognise the huge potential of
social media and personal learning spaces (e-portfolios)
• Staff and learners beginning to exploit social media's
potential to support learning and teaching, attitudes
towards it are changing...

6. Why Social Media
• Because of its ease of use, speed and reach, social
media is fast changing public discourse in society
and setting trends and agendas in educational
institutes
• Social media can also be construed as a form of
collective wisdom or the chatter of a community –
Usually FREE software
• Facebook groups can be to discuss learning topics
and make it easier for learners to help each other
out without having to be in the same room.
Twitter can be used to get in touch with subject
matter experts, stir up discussions and curate
interesting content about the eLearning topic.
• Facebook groups, YouTube channels, Twitter lists,
Google+ communities; the list is expanding year
on year.

7. Facebook • Use Facebook groups to communicate
with students.
• This is a very powerful tool for sharing
information and collaborating with
students from a safe distance.
• Members of the groups can exchange
files, links, information, polls and videos
very quickly.
• Facebook pages can also be used to
create a central page for students and
teachers to share information (goodbye
VLE / Moodle?!?)
• Shrewsbury college are providing
additional communication and
collaboration with 182 closed Facebook
groups currently in place across
curriculum areas.

8. • Twitter accounts are used to raise awareness
of the digital life initiative and to support
communication and course activities
• Teachers setting up subject or class Twitter
accounts that students can follow.
• The teacher then tweets information related
to their class.
• Homework via Twitter
• Minimum time to set up , quick instant
information
• Lesson prep tool – instant reminder,
assignment deadlines
• Exam prep information, room changes
• Educational visits
• Art Images and learner feedback
Twitter

9. Flavour or Flavor of Month
• Google offers its free apps for education,
with secure email, a calendar, access to
Google's Microsoft Office-like suite of
productivity tools, and more establish
mediums
• Google have also launched Google
Classroom, a free service that is trying to
be the new Moodle, but….
• Changes and CPD !!!!!

10. Social media - Benefits
• Its educationally valuable to embrace it, turn it
into an opportunity for our students to develop
an appreciation for the advanced cognitive
skills they employ on a daily basis,
• Social media can simultaneously improve the
learner journey, reduce teacher/assessor
workload, and drive down costs
• Social media has exploded as a category of
online discourse where people create content,
share it, bookmark it and network at a
prodigious rate.
The use of Social Media and learners managing personal on-line learning space
will be the weapons of choice and we have to encourage teaching colleagues to
look beyond the comfort blanket of the VLE to achieve it.

11. Considerations
• Using social media well is a skill, just like anything else,
and those unfamiliar with newer technologies and
platforms can benefit from some form of training
• Provide professional development, encouraging
teachers to rethink their learning models
• Provide a structured approach to helping staff build
their networks – particularly those who are new to
using social media in a professional capacity

12. Microsoft/Apple/Google
Dominant player remains Microsoft
Flavour of the month remains Apple, with the cool of the
iPad providing an allure that no other product can match
& a comprehensive app store available and many features
such as the facility for teachers to easily create bespoke,
multimedia textbooks for their classes.
Google now has moved in
Added functionalities, ease of use and uncomplicated
maintenance that cloud software offers will convince
even more organisations

14. Which way?
Google Apple Microsoft Facebook
Cheap Expensive Middle of Road New Kid on the
Block
Services ever
change – “Talk”
Intuitive Staff friendly Learner accessible
“free” Tech Industry
preferred
Employer Industry
preferred
Learner preferred
Demand results – case studies by independents not suppliers
Try before you buy – 3 x sample “well resources” e-projects
Get all stakeholders involved
Listen to all stakeholders
Which is better? There's only one way to find out: FIGHT!

16. Many Online meeting alternatives
All have pros & cons…
Goto Meeting ClickMeeting Ustream
Skype Adobe Connect Vscene - JISC
Big blue button Oovoo Clickmeeting
Periscope Google Hangout Integrated web
conference room Smart
Rooms
Android and iOS support
Desktop & Application Sharing
Whiteboard
Simultaneous Video Feeds
Annotation(Pointer & Markup)
Public/Private Chat
Polling
File Sharing
Streaming Audio/Video (YouTube)
Breakout Rooms
Reporting
Recording & Editing
Waiting Room
Participant List , Rights & Roles
Embed Session

17. WFD –Distance learning solutions
multi use software solutions
• Invested in a new web hosted e-portfolio system for our Work Force Development
• Smart Assessor came with an integrated web conference room they called Smart Rooms.
• Assessors can use the Smart Rooms to interact with learners 'virtually' over the web, in
between formal face to face reviews.
• Smart Rooms allowed assessors to record audio/video for Professional discussion, Q&A
sessions and review progress.
• The E learning team immediately saw the benefits of this software from a teaching &
Learning & training perspective.
• A cloud based online meeting space….

18. Versatile Multi Use Online
meeting environment

19. Re purpose Re Use sessions -
Online CPD • Created an online course that included the resulting video footage from
the sessions & introduction to our college “experts in the field”
• Re use demonstrations for online lessons – Functional Skills resources
generated
• World Skills Vocational MasterClass
• Principal address
• Staff feedback - excellent – Less travel
• Management feedback - excellent – standardisation of CPD
• Externals - excited – Took ideas back to own SLT
• Attendance - 40 + attendance to many online sessions
• We proved that we could stream CPD activities with minimal
hardware investment whilst demonstrating different uses of the
technology
• It also meant that we were able to present standardised CPD across all
of our campuses

20. MONITOR MILES/ HOURS/ CO2
• Three sessions across 4 x
campus’s
• Principal address
• Shadow Minister Education visit
• Mental Health Awareness session
• Miles Saved: 6595
• CO2 emissions saved:
2179.32
• Hours Saved: 276.5
• Fuel Cost saved: £2641.60

21. Advantages of Online Meeting space
Low investment
• Sustainable delivery method
• Small investment is necessary to implement online CPD / meetings
• Only a normal computer with Internet access and special web conferencing
software is required to participate in an online meeting.
• Cost effective Web cameras and headsets
• All participants can jointly access, view and edit documents in real time.
• Only a standard computer with Internet access and webcam is required to
participate in an online meeting – no username / account set up (SKYPE)
• Staff can use their work time more productively due to less travel
• WFD assessor / learner online one-to-ones – no travel 200 miles for learner
– even different countries - India etc
• Cross institute /college collaborations – shared services eg CPD
• Annual growth rate of 7.9% online cpd delivery since 2012

23. Staffing & Infrastructure
• It is evident that more digitally confident staff are
needed to accommodate a much higher additional
online workload in the future.
• Further cost savings required to ensure financial
stability
• eLearning team under resourced?
• ELearning development team models can adapted,
adopted and deployed in existing areas of the college
/institute

24. LRC - Digital Learning Hub
• Re-evaluating the role of the LRC and its staff as well as learning
support staff you can extend the reach of services to students
• Digital learning space which becomes the “heart” of the college/
institute - where information and support can be centrally accessed,
with a focus upon teaching and learning and support services.
• Incorporate and access different support areas in one place a sense of
“community” and one stop support area for staff and students alike.
• The LRC’s need to transform themselves into technology and support
hubs, an unrestricted open space that enables access to support
information, technology and a central source of digital literacy.

25. The merging of roles ...
Instructional Systems Design + Technology +
Librarianship • Strategic way to evolve the current LRC setup is emphasise, adapt and
support the teaching component of the “teacher” librarian’s role .
• LRC staff should be seen as experts in helping lecturers enhance the
learning both in and out of the “traditional “classroom
• LRC - Home for the e-Learning Team & IT support (merging of roles –
eventually)
• Expert team of learning technology specialists provide support,
guidance and advice to the curriculum teams and students on how to
use technology in the classroom effectively.
• The LRC should be as much a resource for teachers as it is for students
by embedding ILT into regular CPD activities, online cross campus team
meetings and video conferencing taking place in this space.
• Cross campus video conferencing (smart rooms) will show substantial
cost savings in travel expenses, increased productivity due to time saved
not commuting and of the college’s carbon footprint.
• These opportunities could include linking up with other learning
providers across the globe (Skype classroom / Google classrooms/ Smart
Room / TUTE online).

26. Rebrand - Repurpose
• Focused upon collaborative learning environments
and the use of appropriate digital tools for different
student learning styles, a modern hub for 21st-
century teaching and learning, providing realistic,
innovative and supportive strategies for our learner’s
futures.
• Online activities can all be centralised in the LRC with
students taking more ownership of their learning
outcomes. (JISC Change Agents)
• Peer-to-peer tutoring and one-on-one learning can
be facilitated - LSA staff form a regular part of the
LRC environment.
• Providing workshop style support for online modules
or flipped learning within their study programme.
• Likewise other support services should be intrinsically
liked to this central digital space, to provide a
cohesive learning area outside the traditional
classroom.

27. Benefits of Redesigned
LRC & “E” roles
• The LRC should be multi-dimensional hubs offering a range of in-house training,
workshops, learner journey events and digital resources.
• Enhance learner’s digital experience - Personal Learning Spaces (e-portfolios)
• Online presence of knowledge
• Utilise learner willingness to contribute to the college experience
• Collaborative production of learning -Students as digital change agents
• Learners interact with everything - Collaboration is the norm – learners reduce staff
costs
• Librarians (new staff priorities) are part of the wider student experience – online
teaching supported
• “Digital Hub” staff to support the teachers while they are delivering classes and
demonstrate how to better use the technology.
• Fully utilised LRC space & staff
• Incorporate more apps and develop more online courses to make learning even
more personalised for our students and teachers.”
•

28. Benefits of Redesigned LRC & “E”
roles • Embedding Academic and Research Libraries in the Curriculum
• Improve Digital Literacy
• Rethinking the Roles and Skills of Librarians
• Embracing the Need for Radical Change
• Increasing Value of the User Experience
• Prioritization of Mobile Content, Personal Learning Spaces (e-portfolios) &
link to Delivery
• The design of library spaces can better facilitate the face-to-face interactions
that most commonly take place there.
• Library staff are increasingly studying learner behaviour to inform decisions
for strategic plans and budgetary considerations.
• Expand to make room for active learning classrooms, media production
studios, makerspaces, and other areas conducive to hands-on work.
• These changes reflect a trend that is being driven by a deeper pedagogical shifts
in education to foster learning experiences that lead to the development of real-
world skills and concrete applications for students

29. New Delivery Methods - Facilitate group work and collaborative
projects
• To facilitate group work and collaborative
projects, classroom spaces should be redesigned
where learners have more flexibility in their own
learning without the traditional classroom
environment
• Promote, support, encourage and enhance
students’ natural ability with technology.
• Encourage active learning with formal and
informal areas, and facilitate BYOD learning with
group areas that encourage teaching, learning
and sharing.
• Set up the ‘collaboration room’ – a model based
on the University of Wolverhampton’s LaTTE
(Learning and Teaching Test Environment), to
facilitate small group work.
Collaboration Rooms

30. Cut New Classroom costs
• Smartboard & Promethium very expensive projectors with bloated
software that requires high levels of staff support
• SMART BOARD M680I6 (77" DIAGONAL) INTERACTIVE
WHITEBOARD WITH UF70 PROJECTOR
• £2,049.00 (£2,458.80 inc VAT)
• PROMETHEAN 78" ACTIVBOARD 378 PRO WITH MOUNT SYSTEM
AND PROJECTOR
• £2,031.00 (£2,437.20 inc VAT)
• Both Smart and Promethean offering top of the line performance
• Smart & Promethian offers so much in the way of features and
resources,that not everyone will be able to take full advantage of it.

31. Cheaper better alternatives
• Introduce wi-fi connected, interactive, Epson short throw projectors at a fraction
of the cost
• Encourage & allow learners to utilise their own devices to share content via
AirServer. This costs £6 per license compared to the more costly alternative of
AppleTV.”
• no problems with unwanted shadows being cast by objects or by people walking
in front of the beam
• Epson EB-475Wi Projector
• £ 1,059.00
• Epson ELPCB01 Control & Connector Box
• £ 161.00
• Epson EBWAR7106857 5 Year Hardware/Lamp
• £ 170.00
Vs

32. Software, CPD & Staff adoption
• Plenty of ways to connect a massive variety
of sources to the projector, such as a HDMI
port, two VGA ports and a USB port. In
combination with Epson's supplied Easy
Interactive Function software
• Save your notes as a PDF, PNG, JPEG or
BMP file (upload to vle/eportfolio)
• Epson's iProjector app for Android and iOS
to display photos, documents and web
pages directly from your phone.

33. Staff development
• The new projectors proved so intuitive to
use, sessions took just 20 minutes,
whereas previously, staff development for
the whiteboards took over an hour.
• Interactivity is focused and clear. The
feedback from staff was immediately more
positive and they were keen to get started
with making lessons more engaging
• Two page handout on desktop image

34. Multi use software
Software purchases / deployment
Often two, three software solutions are purchased for different
aspects of the learner journey/ Ofsted requirements. Even WFD
& Curriculum differences - WHY?
Value for money – return on investment – value proposition
Tracking learner progress
Learner skills scans
Upload evidence
IV sampling
Resource area
E portfolio
Trackable online presence
(POD gone but what next?)
Management dashboards & tracking – aid
retention
Dynamic data to aid relevant to your audits
Many of these solutions cross over
Duplication
Additional training
Larger CPD programs
Reduced staff adoption - Are they all
needed?

35. Personal Learning Spaces
E-portfolios • E-portfolios provide educators with an opportunity to
observe learners individual growth and how they
identify their evidence to learning outcomes on their
course
• Improving the access to data for learners, parents, and
staff
• Planning how to approach a given learning task,
monitoring progression, and evaluating progress
toward the completion of a task
• Upload intuitive innovative methods of evidence
collection such as video, audio, documents
• Developing personalised, formative assessment
• Track every detail of the learner journey (Dynamic
Progress Tracking)
• Support distance learners and promote independence
through the completion of extension activities
• Support progress and achievement of learners with
diverse demographics.
“Technology acceptance models are based on
perceived usefulness “

36. How to make savings
Mapping evidence into
functional skills
Booking online
sessions with
learners
Educators using the
CPD skill scans to
identify deficiencies
Upload and link to
relevant e-learning
resources
Using activities with
learners
Recording
teaching/ learning
for future use
Use of electronic
signatures
Updated sampling
plans
Transferring data in
from another MIS
Reduced travel to
learner time and
costs by 25%
Upload initial
assessments to the
induction session
learner satisfaction
and surveys
Educators feedback is
cross referenced across
the whole program eg
different units /
functional skills
Learners are using
the initial
declarations
Employers/ parents
log into the e-
portfolio -
Parent/employer
reports – automated
content
Every £1 invested in Smart Assessor returned £3 direct cost saving
o Invest £15,000 saved £45,000 – Chichester College
Eliminated paper (sustainable)
Electronic learning resources, handouts,
assignments and standards
Electronic Reviews, Learning Plans
Electronic signatures eliminate paper forms
Reduced travel to learner time and costs
Increasing case load (increased class sizes /
online attendance)
MIS integration (two way)
Reduced administration costs to
file/chase/manage paperwork
Quality Assurance – build in electronic IQA
(IV) processes
Ofsted Ready Dashboard
Electronic enrolment forms
Ensure use 80% plus of any software’s features – not 20%

38. The App:
• Utilised the Aurasma AR platform.
Created a South Staffordshire College branded app.
This allowed the generation of content specifically for
curriculum areas and also apply some corporate
identity to the wider cross college learner experiences.
Aurasma is currently free for educational organisations.
They helped us to set up a ‘studio’ for our college
where we could create AR content.
Aurasma studio allows you to link video content, web
page links and animations (auras) to a ‘trigger’ image.”
more inspiring, engaging, innovative and
modern self-support / situated learning
communication methods

39. » Following the introduction of
Augmented Reality at South
Staffordshire College, AR began
to change the way we teach,
learn and communicate to our
21st Century learners making the
whole learning experience more
entertaining, rewarding,
engaging
The Start of the AR Journey - App:
Redefinition: Tech allows for the creation of new tasks
previously inconceivable
Modification: Tech allows for significant task redesign
Augmentation: Tech acts as a direct tool substitute,
with functional improvement
Substitution: Tech acts as a direct tool substitute, with
no functional change
Transformation
Enhancement

40. » The technology is having an impact particularly in practical subjects such
as construction and is driving up their success rates !!
» Vocational qualifications & practical demonstrations lend themselves
wonderfully to AR. Fileting a fish, sharing hair and beauty techniques, to
arranging floristry displays or even laying a row of bricks.
» Highly effective way of engaging our learners.These demonstrations can
be very time consuming and often involve expensive non reusable
materials.We are already starting to see the impact of AR demonstrations
in the classroom.
» FollowingAR demonstrations of how to correctly cut a brick
» Construction lecturersTerry Ramwell & Leigh Jakeman reported 90% of
their learners “got it right first time” compared to 60% prior to usingAR.
Wastage and material costs of the bricks have decreased due to the
lecturers not having to demonstrate repeatedly.
» Prior to AR Retention/Success was 74%,
» After AR 89%, an increase of +20% in course
The App:

41. » Through collaborations with the charity Rethink Mental Illness, an AR
project has built upon our work promoting greater awareness of hidden
disabilities
» Using Augmented Reality has enabled us to do this in a way that is
comfortable and easily accessible to staff and learners developing a
college wide inclusive culture
Often stigma is attached to the perception of mental health issues

42. » All of the Mental Health Awareness Augmented
Reality support posters (including the
instruction guide) can be downloaded here:
» https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ur2xecln3ec6lp2/A
AAuMWHuXwSQPQEAtJGj10Oza?dl=0
» Tiny url
» http://tinyurl.com/q75z2y3
» All outputs are available shortly on the UK's
largest repository for discovering and sharing
Open Educational Resources - JORUM
» http://www.jorum.ac.uk/
The App: :

43. » AR poster outputs can be viewed
using the unbranded Aurasma app.
» Upgrade your QR to AR and
download Aurasma app on an
ipad/iphone or android device.
» Open your QR code reader - point
your device at your smart phone to
be taken to your free Aurasma app.
»
The App:

45. Ebay - £3.99
Templates - Make your own - Cheaper
Virtual Reality Everywhere
£3.99 per curriculum area
http://www.chupamobi
le.com/blog/2014/07/3
0/googles-cardboard-
what-it-is-and-how-
you-can-get-one/
Super cheap
Easy to use
Affordable fun
Cheap, mobile virtual
reality that's a cinch to
make

46. LEARNER CENTRED
VIRTUAL REALITY
Design, organize
Assessment
Give learners opportunities
to explore VR for Free &
encourage learner found
Apps
Free Existing Apps:
Curriculum - Tourism
London VR
FULL 360 sites of London. Navigate totally through
your VR headset for a tour like no other. It's just
like you are actually there. Visit sites like:
-Tower of London
-London Eye
-HMS Belfast
-and many more!
There are various options to facilitate Curriculum focused Virtual Reality

47. LEARNER CENTRED
VIRTUAL REALITY
Design, organize
Assessment
Give learners opportunities
to explore VR for Free &
encourage learner found
Apps
Free Existing Apps:
Curriculum - English
War Of Words
‘War Of Words: VR’ uses virtual reality to take you
back to 1916, and into a mind-set captured by
Siegfried Sassoon in his controversial poem ‘The
Kiss’.
The poet describes preparing a rifle for battle. Following the
bullet fired from the rifle will lead the viewer to the second
part of the poem. The 'kiss' described by the writer is a
metaphor for the act of bayoneting an enemy soldier.
There are various options to facilitate Curriculum focused Virtual Reality

48. GOOGLE SPHERE
Design, organize
Assessment
Learners / Staff can create
their own VR learning
On their own device
Free Existing Apps:
ALL Curriculum - Google Sphere
Create, 360º panoramas and publish them to
Google Maps and VLE.
Explore a global map of other public photo
spheres too.
ALL CURRICULUM AREAS – THE ENABLER
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/about/contribute/photosphere/

49. Curriculum engaging teaching & learning resources eg –
360 immersive images– Kitchen / Construction Workshop
images to promote and identify hazard awareness safely
Google Sphere -360º panoramas of all the college
campus’s
Virtual walkthroughs of all campus’s on website linked to
google maps
Curriculum – Construction –Torc (Health & Safety – spot
the hazard)
Virtual Reality & the
21st Century Learner

51. Open Educational Resources (OER) —
Rip,remix (and credit) resources streamline
learning and teaching
• Teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public
domain or have been released under an intellectual property license
that permits their free use and re-purposing by others
• Open educational resources include full courses, course materials,
modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other
tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge
• So where do we locate these free educational resources
• (lesson plans, quizzes, syllabi, instructional modules, simulations, etc)
• Based upon the current educational needs in Further Education I have
focussed upon a few of these I have used …..

52. OER Commons
• One of the largest comprehensive digital
“public” libraries of open educational
resources.
• Course Syllabus for "PRDV201: Accounting
Principles I“
• Individual units
• Mapped and guided learning hours:
• Learner outcomes
• Links
• Online self directed study
• Ratings & Review
https://legacy.saylor.org/prdv201/Unit03/

53. Citizen Maths • Citizen Maths is a free open online maths resource for:
• Learners who want to develop their grasp of maths at Level 2
• Colleges and other learning providers who want to give enrolled
learners an additional or alternative route to improving their maths
(Self Study)
• Employers who want to provide staff with a practical and flexible
learning and development opportunity in maths
• Citizen Maths is funded by the Ufi Charitable Trust
• Uses google course builder & only requires google email address
• Citizen Maths has five and 10 hours of study for each area.
• 5 areas of study
• It it built up from:
• short “to camera” videos and explanatory screencasts
• activities, tasks and other practical challenges
• “low stakes” quizzes to help users check their understadinng

54. Using four main types of content
5/7
Talking to camera
Screencasts applets (for
learners & in
screencasts)
Writing to
camera
https://www.youtube.com/user/CitizenMaths/
https://citizenmaths.com/what-is-it/
Citizen Maths

55. JISC / AoC
• More than just a resource library
• Individual support
• Audits
• Case studies
• Networking

56. Jorum
• The UK's largest repository for discovering
and sharing Open Educational Resources
for HE, FE and Skills.
• Scorm compliant resources

57. Still to Do with OER…….
• Identify suitable material
• Agree material for release
• Find electronic copies of original materials
• Copyright check (ownership & 3rd party)
• Adjust if appropriate
• Pedagogic review
• Upload or link in current VLE / Personal Learning
spaces (e-portfolio)

58. OER Benefits
• OER adoption brings financial benefits for students/institutions
• OER Support informal learning opportunities & study support
• OER reduces the increasing online content generation for teaching
staff
• OER used for supplementary support & online remit
• OER access to high quality engaging content
• OER increased curriculum offering
• OER reduced costs through collaborative development

60. Intuitive Content Development
software • Ensure teachers can create cloud-based
learning resources which:
• enable students to learn with structured
support and guidance
• enrich learning with experiences beyond the
standard curriculum
• extend learning beyond the classroom
• publish SCORM 1.2 courses and assessments
at the touch of a button
• Stafford College / Pitman Training using this to
generate SCORM
• 11-18 school in Sandwell which has trail blazed
this innovation. Kirsty Tonks from Shireland
Collegiate Academy a member of their senior
team is part of ETAG!
• For more information:
www.elearning247.com/nimbleeducation

61. Blended Learning Consortium
• There is still a shortage of good quality
interactive learning content specifically
designed for the sector and building this type of
content for more than one or two courses is
too expensive for individual colleges to do
themselves.
• There is a solution for this by pooling human
and financial resources across a number of
colleges and sharing all content across the
sector.

62. Blended Learning Consortium
• Lead by Heart of Worcestershire College,
winners of this years AoC and TES awards
for technology and learning
• Growing consortium, presently 13 Colleges
working together to improve e-learning
• Annual membership of £5K
• Money used to develop high quality e-
learning content using staff from partners
colleges to write an “e-learnify” content
• Minimum investment each college will get
at least £65Ks worth of content and
hopefully more than a £100K

63. Blended Learning Consortium
• Examples of the type of content that will be produced (built by
Heart of Worcestershire College)
Construction
Access to Music
• Consortium will also
share best practice
share existing content
Work together on bids and tenders
• If interested contact pkilcoyne@howcollege.ac.uk

64. COST REDUCTIONS IN A TIME OF AUSTERITY
So reduction of hardware costs
Full Utilisation of existing infrastructure
Maximising efficiency with software purchases
Reduction of staff training
Utilising social media
BYOD
OER
Collaborative groups

65. Hooked On Learning
• Vision statements
• Look at support out there
• #Feltagsig
• Jisc /Aoc
• Utilise multi discipline software's
• Intuitive software
• Social Media
• anytime, anywhere, any device

66. Tools are often enablers rather than drivers :
“Technology is available to develop either independence
and learning or bureaucracy and teaching” (Ivan Illich,
Deschooling Society, 1971)
“We talk about the fear of technology, it’s often about the fear of change, but
often these technologies are there to enable change, it’s there to make things
better for learners, to make things better for learners, easier for staff and better
for staff.” (James Clay, Jisc project manager - Feltag Special Interest Group)
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67. Is this enough?
• With the future of nearly 40 colleges in question, BIS and DfE
have reveals those facing area reviews
• http://feweek.co.uk/2015/09/08/future-of-nearly-40-colleges-
in-question-as-bis-reveals-those-facing-area-reviews/
• With many colleges currently facing “significant financial
challenges”
• So jisc etc

68. BIS report Reviewing post-16 education and
training institutions
• The recently released BIS report said that the collective
approach was required
• We will need to move towards fewer, often larger, more
resilient and efficient providers. We expect this to enable
greater specialisation, creating institutions that are genuine
centres of expertise, able to support progression up to a high
level in professional and technical disciplines
• A national programme of area-based reviews