piloting e il ps in adult and community learning - acl consortium
DESCRIPTION
Piloting e ILPS in ACL consortium presentation at e-factor 2013 RSC LondonTRANSCRIPT
Project brief
• Increasing use of Moodle - exploring the potential of eILPs
• Feedback from tutor and learner • Engage with Art & Design –
• identified as a particularly difficult area to engage with technology
• Involve a range of adult educational institutions
Project Strategies
Strategy - a high level plan to achieve one or more goals under conditions of uncertainty A range of strategies were adopted, including:-
100% use of the eILP; a hybrid approach using 50% paper-based and
50% electronic ILPs; eILPs; Learner Journal or Reflections eILPs inside and outside the classroom the reflective nature of the eILP
The line up
Project participants
Philip Butler, ULCC developed the original project concept
PARTICIPATING COLLEGES Morley College Lead (Laurence) Cass Breen (Project sponsor)Adult Education College Bexley (Janet)Croydon Adult Learning & Training (CALAT) (Wendy)NALS Newham (Farhad)Working Men's College (Gillian)
ADVISORSJISC RSC London Organisational support, Martin SepionLSIS Associate, Victor Dejean
Forming, Storming, Norming – team
development
The secret is to gang up on the problem, rather than each other. —Thomas Stallkamp
Building the project
Agree the main and associated purposes of the project
Brainstorm ideas and suggestions Project co-ordinator/agreed roles of
participantsTake control of the project deliveryAssess/analyse resultsAgree action and timescaleControl and monitor follow-upPost project collaboration
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Online collaboration at startTwo face-to-face training
workshops hosted by CityLit, delivered by lead trainer Phil George
Feedback from the F2F training
Setting out our own training requirements
CALAT eILPs AECB Xerte Westminster iPads
I believe in training as long as it doesn't take me or my staff away from "important" tasks that must get done”
for the teacher
“While iPads are engaging, technology needs to be — above everything else — in the service of learning. Administrators who fail to articulate the connection between iPads and learning often hamper their iPad initiative.”
http://www.teachersmonthly.com/5-critical-mistakes-schools-make-with-ipads-and-how-to-correct-them
• Email • Google Drive • Meetomatic response• Face to face, group, practitioner,
steering group, training• Blog post on the LSIS eILP project• Moodle forums/ULCC• Morley VLE/Moodle• Telephone
“Communication works for those who work at
it”.
John Powell
“Aw, people can come up with statistics to
prove anything, Kent. 40% of all people know
that.”
- Homer Simpson : "Homer the Vigilante"
Benchmarking electronic questionnaires
• 56 learner responses (January) • 11 practitioner responses
(January)• 70 learner responses (June) • 8 practitioner responses (June)
Our data – quantitative & qualitative
Forming, Storming, Norming – Project Steering Group Meetings
No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.
Ronald Reagan
Project Steering Group Meetings
Advantages:- Involvement Motivation Good will Present and future collaboration
Disadvantages:- Travel Time away from the workplace
Collaboration and learning through reflection
“The features don’t matter. It’s all about the outcomes. What can people do with your software?”
What the learners said…… “A waste of our time. When we are supposed to be making our projects. need to be able to write down comments as we go along. Impractical to expect us to do it at home, some people don't have time or don't have a computer.”“I love Moodle. I very much
appreciate the facility to upload photographs, although I found it a little difficult to begin with as the PC is not as intuitive as is the Mac. OK now. With regard to the Individual Learning Plan, I found it difficult to find my tutor's comment because the "Comment" button was dark and not easily seen.”
“Its much easier to do the e ILP online rather than writing down on the paper.”
Moodle is very good. Easy access to course assignments, info and handouts all in one place. Social networking with the rest of the class
Sorry, but I am too old to find the LP exciting. It is time consuming and yet another job to do, chaining you to the computer!
I feel it benefited the majority of the learners but not all. Some were resentful of
having to spend more time on eILPs than they did filling
out the paper versions
Lucy Winter, AECB
For any non accredited course I would say that the ILP helps
quite a lot to monitor students achievement and also helps them
quite a lot to reflect on their own achievement
Christiane Franz NALS/NEWHAM
What the tutors said…….
I now feel that there is a place for
Moodle in teaching and supporting
learners but I am not sure it will ever be the main support
tool
Kim Lucas, CALAT
To me, the usefulness of the eILP is that it is
an interactive document that can be started in class, then developed throughout
the course
Anyway, I am a bit of a convert now to
the eILP as they are easy to access as a tutor and I like being able to open a dialogue with my students regarding
their work and progress
Gillian Burton, WMC
Fay Hoolahan, Morley
“When shall we three meet again …”
• Regular contact beyond the lifetime of the initial funded project
• Review the impact of the project over a more extended period - an end-line survey Summer term 2013
• End of Project Exhibition – Reflective dialogues
• Project Case Study - Excellence Gateway
“Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But
it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning” Winston Churchill
However, for me, the most rewarding aspect of this venture was the true spirit of collaboration with which we concluded the project.
Martin Sepion, JISC RSC London
It is the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
Charles Darwin
“This telephone has too many serious shortcomings to be considered as a method of
communication” 1876• Questions & Answers• We welcome your thoughts• We have included project delivery as
well as project deliverables• The technology and the people using
it