Led by Hazel White, account manager, Jisc. With contribution from Alicia Wallace, digital learning manager, Gloucestershire College. In this session you’ll hear from local colleagues, explaining how they are making the most of some of the digital resources available through Jisc. Jisc Connect more in Northern Ireland, 23 June 2016

2. Making the most of
digital resources

3. What we do?
We deliver services that support the procurement,
management and discovery and use of content for
UK research and education
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4. Digital content
Making content available to support teaching
and research
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» Providing wide coverage of content for research and teaching by collecting, licensing
and preserving high quality digital content
» Procuring excellent deals for institutions for access to third party resources for
research and education
» Working with partners to create and delivering high quality content for different needs

5. Resource discovery
Enabling researchers and students to discover the rich
resources held across libraries and archives in theUK
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» Supporting interdisciplinary research and opening up new paths of inquiry
» Helping institutions expose their collections to researchers across the UK and
internationally
» Enabling library staff to provide enhanced researcher support
» Building community trust and confidence through our close working collaboration
with libraries and archives

6. Library Support and Analytics Services
Helping libraries more efficiently manage
their collections
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» Helping universities save time and money – saving the sector £70m each year –
through licence negotiation
» Providing strategic business intelligence tools, helping institutions to improve
decision-making capacity
» Helping the UK academic sector demonstrate international leadership through
standards development and implementation
» Removing work entirely from the local institution by doing it at a level above
the institution

7. Open Access Support
Enabling UK higher education to realise the rewards
of open access
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jisc.ac.uk/content/open-access

8. Engagement challenges
» Discoverability
» Delivery barriers
» Changing technologies
» Digital behaviours
» Digital capabilities
» “Digital resources” can mean many different things
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9. Meeting the challenge
»Understanding digital students, learners and staff
» Reducing technology barriers
»Addressing digital literacy and capability
» Effective use of data
»Accessibility and inclusion
»Communication
» Building trust relationships
»Collaboration

10. Meeting the challenge
»Understanding digital students, learners and staff
» Reducing technology barriers
»Addressing digital literacy and capability
» Effective use of data
»Accessibility and inclusion
»Communication
» Building trust relationships
»Collaboration
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11. Making the most of our support
Account managers and subject specialists are working
with our DR services to ensure members are able to
make the most of digital resources and library services
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12. jisc.ac.uk
HazelWhite
account manager
hazel.white@jisc.ac.uk
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13. 10% online
@arelearning
Alicia Wallace – Digital Learning Manager GlosCol

14. Why?
Why Online
Learning?
We believe in it.
Why
Now?

15. Jan 2013
March
2014
June
2014
Oct
2014
Feb
2015
April
2014
2015/16
Feltag
progress
report
SFA Response
Government
Response
Feltag formed by Matthew
Hancock, Minister for Skills and
Enterprise.
Task: make practical
recommendations aimed at
ensuring the effective use of
digital technology in learning,
teaching and assessment in FE
and Skills
Feltag report with
recommendations
produced
Etag formed
Targets
FE courses
include 10%
online learning
SFA introducing
online-only
funding rate

16. About GC
RFD
Gloucester
Cheltenham

17. About me
Dim and
distant
past…
More
recently
October
2013
The
date’s
on my
CV…
Degree in
Cybernetics and
Virtual Worlds
Digital Resource Developer
and Co-Ordinator at
Hartpury College
Family of teachers
Digital Learning
Manager at
Gloucestershire
College

18. So why are you here?
Where on the
journey
are you?What is your
interest in
digital
technology?

19. 2Potentially
progressing towards
20% online in FT L3
courses 2017/18
1
10% online across full-
time substantial Level
2 and Level 3 courses
in 2016/17

20. We aren’t the first.
But there are still challenges.

21. Research shows
Well, actually…

22. Image from Imgur

23. How to make
your lessons
outstanding
– TES (undated)
5 ingredients
of outstanding teaching
– SecEd
May 2013
What makes an
outstanding
lesson – SecEd
June 2013
Aim for Outstanding

24. What’s key to being outstanding?
Planning
Self
Reflection
Perceptiveness
Resilience

25. Planning 16/17 with teachers
began in November 2015
Planning

26. The Good
• Scheme of Work
• Teachers choose online elements
• Flipped learning
• Auditors
• Online Study Skills
Planning

27. The Worrisome
• Changing courses
• Changing awarding bodies
• Restructuring
• Teachers’, executives’ and governors’ concerns
• Student engagement
• Student success
• Development time
• Technical skills
Planning

28. Choosing resources – self
produced or purchased?
Planning

29. Planning
Pre-built
Resources
Blended Learning
Consortium
Subject
specific materials
Whole packages
available
Awarding
body unit
materials

30. Planning
Student
development
activities
Self Made
Resources
Make
activities from
resources
Project units
Make
activities from
scratch

31. Self
Reflection
How is what we’re
doing supporting
the classroom
sessions?
How are we
helping the
students?
If I had to do
this, would I?
Would I understand
what I’m expected
to do when
confronted
with this?

32. Resilience
Design resources
with teachers;
Developers make
custom resources.
Find resources
and share
with teachers.
Train
teachers to
make their
own.
Clear model for
tracking and
assessing
students.
For Now
Train
teachers to
make their
own digital
resources.

33. Resilience For Then
Students
don’t
do it?
Students
can’t
do it?
What if…?
Students
don’t
like it?

34. So What?

35. Story so far
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
I use the VLE quite often.
The VLE front page is attractive.
It's easy for me to get to my course/ units on the VLE.
My course/ unit on the VLE has good resources.
My online learning is an important part of my course.
Online learning is good for revision.
Pilot Students
Strongly Disagree Disagree Neutral Agree Strongly Agree
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
I use the VLE quite often.
The VLE front page is attractive.
It's easy for me to get to my course/ units on the VLE.
My course/ unit on the VLE has good resources.
My online learning is an important part of my course.
Online learning is good for revision.
None-Pilot Students
Strongly Disagree Disagree Neutral Agree Strongly Agree