New product development

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• New product development
• Iris Steen, Director of Communications and
• Gavin Nettleton, Principal Advisor on E-learning
• 14 June 2007

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What we know

• Stakeholders value quality and rigour of SCIE
  resources
• Service user focus is a strength
• 60-70 say that SCIEs work is excellent or good

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What we know

• Statutory providers most likely to use SCIE
  services
• Voluntary or private sector least likely to know
  or use
• Practice guides and knowledge reviews most
  commonly used resource

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What we know

• 90 use our website
• Four times more interviewees accessed information
  via website than via guide books
• Higher level of e-literacy
• But some people do not or cannot use computer

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Your recommendations

• Include more information on best practice on
  website
• Improve publicity and marketing
• Produce more user-friendly summaries
• Include detailed case studies of use of products
  in practice
• Produce resources that are more practical and
  less academic

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Our plans

• Develop a marketing campaign approach
• Increase communication with private and voluntary
  providers
• Review our product range and content
• Case studies on use of resources
• Develop more interactive resources
• Review of website

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• E-learning resources
• Gavin Nettleton, Principal Advisor on E-learning
• And
• Colin Paton, E-learning Project Manager
• 14 June 2007

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Thinking outside the box
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Background

• E-learning
• A reminder of what SCIEs view of e-learning is
• 'If someone is learning in a way that uses
  information and communication technologies, then
  they are e-learning.'

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Headline achievements in e-learning

• A major study in e-learning readiness within the
  sector by Mori
• the first 10 learning objects with 20 more in
  production and 30 proposed
• First phases of a European project -
  Process-oriented Learning and Information
  eXchange (Prolix) designed to align learning with
  business processes via competency gap
  identification
• Supporting Induction in Social care (SISCo) a
  regional study and pilot focussing on the basic
  skills and induction processes in the sector

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Overall features of the work

• The research undertaken so far points to a
  growing awareness and readiness in the sector to
  e-learning and ICT use
• SCIEs work on content was eagerly awaited has
  been well received, and we are very conscious of
  the need to provide engaging, accessible and high
  quality products
• Our work within the European project is raising
  issues about just how ready the small operators
  in our sector are
• We have produced our first sets of material and
  work in progress can be viewed online

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Over the horizon

• Mobile technologies
• Ubiquity of provision
• Knowledge management and development
• Virtual service users in training
• Web 2.0
• Blended approaches which further blur any
  distinctions we now make
• Blogging and communities of learners

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E-learning resources
Poverty and Social Exclusion
The Mental Health of Older People
Law and Social Work
To be launched in July 2007
Launched in Feb 2007
To be launched in Feb 2008
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Example resources
1. Law and Social Work
Win a million
Experts by experience
All in a days work
2. The Mental Health of Older People
An introduction to mental health and older people
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www.scie.org.uk
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• SISCo
• Supporting Induction in Social Care
• Sara Dunn (SISCo project manager)
• Alexander Braddell (SISCo consultant)
• 14 June 2007

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SISCo background

• Joint SCIE/Skills for Care/SEEDA project
• Focus on Common Induction Standards
• Proof of concept or pilot approach
• 20 social care employer-partners in SE England
  and 5 facilitators
• Audit and scoping phases followed by in-service
  pilot

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SISCo product

• Website offering
• Action Plans templates to help managers take
  constructive action on basic skills
• Compare standards tool instant access to CIS,
  HSC NVQ2 and GSCC Codes - follows CIS mapping to
  help define safety and quality
• Skills Checks bank of 15-minute learning
  activities allowing managers to check staff skills

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SISCo using a Skills Check

• You have just appointed a care assistant
• They need to be able to understand safety signage
• You want to check if they have the skills to do
  this
• Go to www.sisco.org.uk gtgt

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SISCo Skills Check 08

• Skills Check 08 is in your delegate pack
• All Skills Checks contain
• manager guidance
• Skills Check activity
• feedback sheet
• personal development planning form
• User-friendly for manager and staff member

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SISCo whats different?

• Aimed at employers, not basic skills experts
• Basic skills definition grounded in social care
  standards
• Tools offer genuine learning about care work as
  well as providing evidence of basic skills
• Can provide evidence for AQAA/inspection

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Further information

• Sara Dunn (project manager)
• info_at_sisco.org.uk
• Website (launched today)
• www.sisco.org.uk

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and finally

• Tell us what you think about
• Our existing resources
• Our plans
• Other organisations work that you value
• Complete section on evaluation form

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• The problem is not lack of information, but how
  to make it live for practitioners