Baseline Study of e-activity in Scotland

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Baseline Study of e-activity in Scotlands
Colleges

• DSA A Route Forward

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Forth Valley College

• 26,000 Learners
• 900 Staff
• Falkirk, Stirling, and Alloa
• Learning and Teaching Strategy
• e-Enabled Society

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DSA - Process

• Away Day
• Learning and Teaching (2)
• VLE (2)
• ICT (2)
• Teaching (4)
• Quality (2)
• Middle Manager (1)
• Senior Manager (1)

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Organisational

• Students are informed of pedagogical rationale,
  procedures and technologies (Policy and Planning)
• Institutional learning teaching policy
  explicitly addresses e-learning (Policy, Delivery
  and Management)
• Learning and Teaching Strategy staff and
  learner consultation.
• Lets listen to learners, lets talk about
  learning.

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Evaluation

• Students/Teachers provide systematic feedback on
  their experience of e-learning
• Course teams carry out systematic reviews of the
  effectiveness of e-learning
• Systematic review and feedback specifically
  relating to e-learning/technology.

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Support

• Technical support is available for students
  (Policy, Planning, Delivery)
• Support in e-learning delivery is provided for
  teaching staff (Policy, Planning)
• Support is focussed on staff Scope of learner
  technical support?
• Support for delivery rather than development
  Embedding Sustainable Innovation in Learning and
  Teaching.

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Development

• The e-learning infrastructure is standardised and
  integrated
• Challenges of Merger
• Standard Classroom Minimum Specification
• Culture change/CPD

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College Self Evaluation

• Operational Planning and Self Evaluation
• The bigger picture
• Staff perception
• Learner perception
• Explicit, systematic.

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Building with DSA

• Team Building
• Building Bridges ICT and Learning and Teaching
• Building Sustainable Professional Best Practice.

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Forth Valley DSA Team

• Alison Inglis and John Cutlack
• Leanne Campbell and Margaret Keiss
• Nancy Brentle and May Tennant
• John Denholm, Malcolm Moncrieff, Susan Allen,
  George Walls and Hannah Ritchie
• Jon Russell and Stewart Hilton