RESPONDING TO INSPECTION

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RESPONDING TO INSPECTION

• Developing a strategy for using ILT to raise
  quality in Maths

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Flexibility

• A customised learning experience to meet your
  needs
• Recognition of the different needs of learners
• A need to lead appropriate methodologies from the
  front
• How are we using e-learning

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Leadership

• Principle centred
• What does college see as its mission?
• What are its values?
• Are students at the heart of what we do?

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Why should the SMT and governors be aware of new
technologies?

• e-learning can support an innovative culture
• It can upskill staff
• American research demonstrates that 40 savings
  on course delivery can be achieved
• New funding opportunities, collaborations
• Inclusion and accessibility
• Retention and achievement

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Strategic planning

• The cycle needs to have e-learning centre stage
• The College Development Plan
• Ensure e-learning is solving the problems that
  the College faces. Is it included in the self
  assessment report?
• What drives your systems?

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How are Colleges measured?

• Retention and achievement - Success rates
• Financial viability
• Widening participation/skills
• Reputation in the area
• Inspection

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Retention and achievement

• Ensure e-learning has a positive impact on
  retention and achievement
• Is IT integrated into the teaching and learning
  strategy?
• Our maths experience

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Financial viability

• The curriculum costing model
• New funding opportunities through e-learning

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Widening Participation

• IT reaches learners where other methods fail
• The traveller community
• Laptops
• Bromley Learning Bus
• Learndirect

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Reputation

• New technologies sell the College
• Learning online for existing students
• The medium is the message
• Are you leading edge?

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INSPECTION

• ILT
• Maths

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Using ILT in Maths

• Aims
• To promote use of ILT resources to enhance
  teaching and learning in Maths
• To provide a forum for the sharing of resources
  and ideas across maths departments within colleges

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Why we use ILT in Maths

• To visualise concepts
• To provide opportunities to learn by discovery
  within time constraints
• To provide a variation in teaching/learning style
• To diagnostically test students at enrolment

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Software that we use

• Digitalbrain (VLE)
• Mathsbuilder
• Autograph
• Internet
• Microsoft Word and FXdraw
• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft Powerpoint

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Future Developments

• Extend use of VLE
• All rooms fitted with projectors
• Home produced resources
• Better use of the internet
• Improving current home produced resources

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Digitalbrain

• VLE (Virtual Learning Environment)
• To provide an effective way to organise resources
• To allow students access to resources any time,
  any place
• To provide markbooks accessible to staff and
  students any time, any place
• To provide online testing, automatic marking and
  entry into markbooks

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Digitalbrain Evaluation

• Current facilities are very reliable
• VLE is a powerful tool
• Still in developmental stages

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Summary

• Virtual communities develop learning and improve
  communication
• Focus on the benefits to the learner
• Respond quickly to changes in the market place
• Success rates in Maths moved in two years from
  50 to 90

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Conclusion

• Any questions