Events

Come to this session to find out more about the e-books for FE project, which will provide 3,000 e-books relevant to the FE curriculum.

They will be available via the Ebrary e-books platform free of charge under unlimited concurrent access to every FE college in the UK for 5 years from May 2009.

Access to the e-books will be made available under the JISC model licence so that staff and students can use the e-books to their full potential in teaching and learning.

Collaborative working between providers is something that’s often promoted but can it work effectively?

Charnwood know it can – they are currently leading a consortium of three providers who successfully bid for LIG 4 funding.

In this session Jeremy will talk about the Virtual Academy and share experience gained in developing a partnership approach to using technology effectively in the Work Based sector.

Andrew and Tony will share their experiences of implementing mobile devices into a range of curriculum where Key Skills is embedded.

The devices used include state of the art smart phones, iPods, Nintendo DS, PSPs, ultra mobile PCs (UMPCs) and student voting systems.

The project ran over 9 months and included 3 colleges, nearly 500 devices and needed the installation of two wireless networks.

Also running this session is Tony Jewson (Northampton College).

This session invites you to join the RSC East Midlands Steering Group in exploring strategic priorities for the coming year.

Discussion will start from what the current demand for RSC services shows and the views of Steering Group members on sector priorities for colleges, ACL and WBL.

The outcome will enable RSC East Midlands to support regional learning providers more effectively.

Feedback on the usefulness of the ASUS eeePC in Adult & Community Learning.
Participants will:

- Be given the opportunity to explore the ASUS eeePC

- Develop an awareness of its potential use in ACL settings and its drawbacks

- Get feedback about how ASUS eeePCs have been used by tutors across Nottinghamshire

This workshop will also feature Lyn McDermott (Leicestershire Adult Learning Service).

This session will discuss the progress and outcomes of the JISC funded TEA Project (Tri-party E-Assessment).

The project examined the use of Moodle online assessments with groups of engineering work based learners working for various employers including Rolls-Royce.

The project also looked at the use of the Moodle platform to support specific employer requirements in terms of visibility of college activities and reporting requirements.

In order to effectively harness technology and transform learning provision an organisation needs to adopt a whole organisational approach and have the commitment of the senior management team.

In the Web2.0 era it also needs to trust and empower learners, and engage them in a new learning partnership.

This seminar will identify key leadership challenges and identify strategies to enable the organisation to harness technology more effectively and to become more e-mature.

Also with Ian Pritchard from LSIS.

The Excellence Gateway is now hosting the Skills for Life Core Curriculum in literacy, numeracy and ESOL and the pre-entry curriculum framework in a new online version.

This powerful online tool is an updated version of the original paper-based core curriculum, with additional features, and is vital for all trainers and teachers who support adult learners.

As well as providing new content, the online version offers:
- improved accessibility;
- examples of embedded learning in action;
- links to other supporting materials.

This seminar will explore how the new online Core Curriculum is set to support all practitioners in the post-16 education and training sector.

With the arrival on the market of small, affordable, portable netbooks or eeePCs, it opens up opportunities in providing a very portable IT solution to get Information Learning Technology (ILT) delivered in any location.

In this workshop you will learn:

- What equipment is needed

- How to connect the equipment together

- Your options to encourage collaborative working in the class

Your chance to catch up with what’s happening in the sector and to find out about some of the innovative practical applications of technology being used in Work Based Learning across the region.

An opportunity to network with colleagues, share good practice and discuss different approaches.

As part of a JISC funded project, Loughborough College has been working with e-portfolios to how they can develop one to use with their learners.

In this session they hope to give you an honest view of their experiences so far.

This will include:

- What is an e-portfolio? (not always a simple question)

- What options are there available? (open source/commercial)

- Their experience of working with open source systems (what they did and why)

- What worked well (and what didn’t) with their students

This workshop will also feature Samuel Persse and John Mendes (Loughborough College).

Come to this session to find out about Jorum, a free, national, online repository service for learning and teaching materials.

Content is produced and submitted by Jorum’s community of tutors, learning technologists and librarians in UK FE and HE institutions.

Jorum contains resources for teaching across all subject areas, encouraging the sharing, reuse and repurposing of these materials; JorumOpen will extend this community worldwide.