Karla Youngs, head of digital content services for further education and skills, Jisc
Hear from two very different colleges where leaders of learning resources and learning services share their real and inspiring examples of how they have respectively driven learner engagement and attainment via library and learning resource services, to become the beating heart of a college.
Jisc experts will also share how you can gain more content and interactive learning resources, use less of your budget, and save time sourcing titles. You will also hear how to overcome internal challenges to drive adoption and usage of resources and have a positive impact on your learners.
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Inspire learners, drive attainment - make FE learning resource services front and centre
1. London – 11 June
Inspire learners, drive
attainment – make FE
learning resource services
front and centre
Karla Youngs, head of digital content
services for further education and skills, Jisc
Angela Leavens, head of learning resources
and e-learning, Strode College
Colin Sawers, learning resources manager,
Chesterfield College
2. London – 11 June
Inspire learners, drive
attainment – make FE
LRCs front and centre
Karla Youngs, head of digital content
services for further education and skills,
Jisc
3. Do more with less
•With less effort and less cost you can
further embed/integrate curriculum
relevant learning resources for all.
•Enhance the learner experience whilst
truly demonstrating the added value of
libraries as a service
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We’re here to help
4. Helping you add value
•Provide an excellent service to your learners & teachers by gaining
more content and increasing access to curriculum relevant
resources.
•Use less of your budget by integrating free digital resources, in
addition to enjoying discounted licence costs.
•Save time sourcing relevant titles, being safe in the knowledge that
content is vetted by Jisc.
•Join a community of peers to ask questions and gain visibility of
effective practice
•Access library and digital resource expertise and practical help and
support
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Being a member of Jisc allows you to:
5. FE and skills learning resources
•A level content
•Vocational – BTEC, Cache
•GCSE (Nationals) English and Maths
•Support site
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E-books for FE
Jisc Collections licenced content
•Arts and Humanities
•Health and Life Sciences
•Science, Engineering and Technology
•Social Sciences
6. FE and skills learning resources
• Hairdressing training
• Health and social care training
• Citizen Maths
• Geospatial data service
Posters are available – please ask!
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Service spotlight
7. FE and skills learning resources
•Construction training
•Digital and IT training
•Education and childcare training
Free trials and discounts available
Posters coming soon – please ask!
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Just launched!
9. London – 11 June
Making FE Learning
Resource Services
Front & Centre
Angela Leavens, Strode College
10. Strode College
•Small, Rural Tertiary College
•Single campus
•1410 full time students
•550 A Level / 650 L3 Voc
•170 L2 / 40 Foundation Learning
•140 HE Students
•490 Apprenticeships / 450 Traineeships
•T Levels!
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Street, Somerset
11. Strode Support Services
LRC
•3 full time staff
•2 part time / term time staff (LRC & AV)
•Jisc Band I
•LMS – Heritage
•VLE – Moodle – used well throughout the College
IT Services
•3 full time staff (currently recruiting)
•1 Apprentice + 1 Admin PT
•93 Servers (virtual)
•Storage Network, 1200 Desktops, CCTV,
Databases….
•Parts of Campus 3G/4G/5G Dead zone
12. Ebooks for FE
•Achievable for everyone here
•No budget, no additional staff
•Marc Records in Heritage
•Moodle is home page for student internet access
•Integrate into VLE (moodle)
•Every course has Digital Library Block (html)
•Shibboleth for off campus / home access
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The Strode Story
13. Databases on the VLE
•Jisc Collections
•Loads of free content / trials
•On campus IP access + Shibboleth for off campus
•Authenticate with College username & password
•All included on course Digital Libraries block
•Own Digital Libraries Moodle Page
•Every database we subscribe to – image & hyperlink
•How to use guides / youtube links
•Linked to course pages
Strode
14. Actions
• Make it visual
• Put content where the students will see it – what do they use?
• Set up off campus access
• Marketing
•Drip feed – little and often
•Get involved at Key points throughout the year
• Enrolment / Induction / Open Evenings / Tutorial / Workshops / Events – WBD
•Moodle banners / Splash screens / Social media / TV / posters
•Appeal to staff competitive nature - League tables e.g. Top 5 eBooks
Get out of the LRC
•Staff Development Day training sessions
•Drop into team rooms – offer support14
Stick with it – if you build it they will come…
16. London – 11 June
Inspire learners, drive
attainment – make FE
learning resource services
front and centre
Colin Sawers – Chesterfield College
17. • General FE college, also delivering HE
• 2,500 students on 16 to 19 study programmes
• 1,300 adult learners, 2,700 apprentices, 520 HE students
• Ofsted rating – 3 requires improvement
• Single campus in Chesterfield, Derbyshire
• Apprenticeship centres in Manchester, Nottingham
and Birmingham
• High number of students from deprived backgrounds
• Attainment at 16 lower than the region and England
• Unemployed 18-21 year olds higher than rest of the
East Mids
• Financial cuts
Background – Chesterfield College
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18. • Increasing the use of content on our ClickView service
to ensure value for money
• Worked with the English and Maths team to source
video content to support GCSE Maths and English
• Learning resources staff were given permission to
upload the content to Moodle from the Maths and
English co-ordinator
Initial project
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19. GCSE Maths example
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20. • Increase in usage of ClickView videos of
227% on previous year
• Raised awareness amongst maths and
English curriculum staff
• Led us to think about how we could
replicate this for other resources
Results!
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1000
1500
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Sept Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug
ClickView usage 2016/17
compared to 2017/18
2016 2017
21. Challenges around e-books
• High staff turnover
• Difficult to engage with teaching staff
• Low usage of e-books and books generally
• Stretch and challenge agenda
• Information skills sessions had lost focus
• Requirement as part of business plan process
for us to have targets to work towards
• Financial constraints – need to get best value
from our resources
• Difficult to offer workforce development
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22. e-books for FE
• Following the success of ClickView we wanted
to try and replicate this with e-books for FE
• Negotiated with the Technology Enhanced
Learning Manager for us to have full editor
access to Moodle
• This allowed us to access any course page
and the ability to add a range of learning
resources
• We identified relevant e-books for each course
and provided chapter level links on the VLE
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Next steps…
Inspire learners, drive attainment – make FE learning resource services front and centre
23. Top 10 titles this year
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Data taken from JUSP
24. Results!
• 2016/17 to 2017/18 – 199% increase
• So far this year 219% increase on the
period September to April compared to
last year
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6000
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12000
Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun July Aug
Usage of e-Books for FE
2016/17 2017/18 2018/19
25. • Challenging group of staff to work with as
field based
• Only come to Chesterfield occasionally
• Opportunity to attend festival
• Stall to show print books and also e-books
they could use with their apprentices
• Followed this up with telephone/Skype
support for tutors and learners
• For classroom based learners we delivered
a pop-up library
Festival of work based learning
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26. Information skills sessions
• Online search skills
• Overview of e-book platforms
• How to reference e-books in referencing
sessions
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Home of Clarks Shoes / Clarks outlet mall / town with Quaker origins – community spirit, modest, in fact Street was teetotal until the 1970s! can look out from this green onto Glastonbury Tor / areas of wealth (City of Wells / private schools – Millfield) / areas of depravation – Glastonbury ; Being rural many travel into college on buses – up to 1hr 45m on bus each way. We survived the merger process and remain stand alone ; that said we have some big colleges on our doorstep – people in the South West are rather fortunate as we have many Grade 1 Colleges ; it means competition is high. ; Another element of local competition - We have a number of schools with sixth forms close by / work hard to keep the cream of crop / students - they provide paper textbooks for their students. Interesting student population - we have many white witches / pagans / travellers / people who choose to live off grid.
Our Moodle is managed by the LRC staff. Its very ‘out of the box’ ; hosted in house ; we have no developers. LRC Staff set up & create new Moodle courses for teaching staff – send out guidance (including backing up courses, how to functionality…) deliver training at Staff Development Days ; 1-1 inductions for new staff. Work with IT, who manage the back end of Moodle. Moodle been around for a long time, we did the bronze / silver / gold standard for courses a number of years ago. Many would like to change to Google Classroom / Microsoft Teams… but we’re not there yet and for us ‘the price is right’ for moodle ! I report to the DP and both the IT Manager & myself sit on various committees – IT Strategy Group ; IT User Group ; College Managers ; Curriculum Action Group ; HE Operations ; we present to the Governors and we attend Student Forums – Our opinions are sought and valued - I think this is key to being at the heart of the college.
Strode are so small compared to large colleges – When new specs came out I couldn’t offer 1 textbook per learner or titles as ebooks on concurrent user licences. Marc records are linked between paper records copy and ebook copy. At Strode all course managers are responsible for their own moodle pages / content / all lecturers have ‘teacher’ / editing rights. I had in the past preached at staff meetings… we have fabulous resources… reply - oh yes must check them out…. A few champions… preaching to converted. A few years ago I spoke with some tutors and asked if I could have a play with their courses and add ebooks – they were a success. That summer, I hijacked every moodle course and added a digital library…. It’s a KISS Strategy – Moodle HTML Block with images hyperlinked directly to the ebook. Most of our students (and staff) don’t know they are using ebooks for FE, they think they are using moodle. All moodle blocks are backed up as standalone, so they can be dropped onto any new course or restored if the lecturer accidently deletes – it’s happened. Shibboleth was critical for us as we needed home access / bus access. Lucky JISC had discounted training our IT staff attended. Interestingly we have seen some of our ‘lowest scoring’ moodle courses have the highest ebook usage.
We have integrated our databases into our VLE also – to be honest it’s rough and ready – if I can do this you can too – if you’re big and have a budget then let your imagination & developers go wild for you. I was surprised to learn during our Value Study that not every college makes full use of JISC’s free resources – go have a look! Sign up to them all – even if you only have two users, it was worth it to them. Dominic is a physics & photography student – our students appreciate saving money on purchasing textbooks, they like not having to carry books around campus (we have limited lockers), and the like access on the move.
Content where students use / lucky because we are small we are involved in the enrolment process – we run network logons / Moodle accounts – lots of parents / early sell ; starting to see parents coming in at enrolment knowing ‘the College provides ebooks’ – we’re saving their family money… enrolment win / enrolments up from schools with sixth forms ; the most successful things for us with staff is league tables for ebook usage – always gets the usage up, as staff promote it – current winners – A Level PE ; Chem ; IT ; for students success highest for moodle campaigns on banners … ; We have an annual IT & LRC survey and we have seen student use of ebooks grow year on year. Our A Level results & high grades are fantastic. Good luck