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