Video conferencing in Further Education

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Digital Literacy Induction
A roadmap of the journey in FE
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The plan, the journey and where we are now

• Ellen Lessner, e-Learning Coordinator
• Abingdon and Witney College

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• Context

• Abingdon and Witney College general FE College
  10 miles from Oxford
• 5 campuses and students from HE to SLDD
• Staff with a range of IT and e-Learning skills

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Listening to Learners?

• JISC -Learner experience of e-Learning Phase 1
  2 http//bit.ly/9EPS0h
• JISC Learning literacies in a digital age
  http//bit.ly/dt8A78
• JISC Slida project - http//bit.ly/cfxa6W
• Abingdon and Witney Digital Literacy Induction -
  http//www.abingdon-witney-digit.co.uk/

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• This is what we have done

• LSIS action research grant kick started DALLI
• Senior management backing and a cross college
  steering committee
• Student focus groups led to annual learner voice
  conferences
• DALLI was mandatory but students received a 2G
  memory stick on completion

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• This is what Senior Managers did

• 2010 Mandatory e-Learning CPD and 3 standards
  for IT Skills and e-Learning
• ALL new staff self assessed IT Skills
• Formalised the e-Learning Coordinator role and
  allocated additional time for 6 e-Learning
  Advisors for staff development
• Dedicated area for e-learning

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Are we there yet?
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• Summary

• Senior management backing is the key to success
• It takes time to change the culture for staff and
  students
• Training and support for students and staff must
  be readily available
• Constant review keeps the process viable
• Questions? Ellen.lessner_at_abingdon-witney.ac.uk
  

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• Activity

• On your tables, in groups from similar
  institutions, discuss what you would put into an
  institutional digital literacy induction.
• Text the top 5 topics to
• 07537 40 24 00
• Start the text with AWC and then space