colegaucymru collegeswales he in fe 120413
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Slides to support a discussion at ColegauCymru CollegesWales HE in FE Network, 12 April 2013.TRANSCRIPT
Technology to enhance learningUpdate to ColegauCymru / CollegesWales
HE in FE Network
Lis ParcellHE Coordinator
ColegauCymru / CollegesWales HE in FE Network 120413
@lisparcell@rscwales http://www.slideshare.net/lisparcell/
What’s new?
• Reshaping Jisc http://bit.ly/XGFC97 • Welsh Government Online Digital Learning Working
Group http://bit.ly/ZdsLta• CollegesWales Jisc Advance iTunes U project• http://collegeswalesitunesu.blogspot.co.uk/ • Increased focus on Open Educational Resources
(OER), Massively Open Online Courses (MOOC). Useful links:– http://www.jisc.ac.uk/oer– http://bit.ly/YPlgsQ
Opportunities: Digital Literacy
• Digital literacy– “By digital literacy we mean those capabilities which fit an
individual for living, learning and working in a digital society.”– Developing Digital Literacies Programme
• http://bit.ly/17uzQcw • Two Welsh projects• PADDLE (five North Wales colleges) http://bit.ly/12Plbsq• Digidol (Cardiff University) http://bit.ly/YgUeH6• Disseminating throughout 2013
– Digital Literacy organisational review http://bit.ly/152mJiR• Jisc RSC Wales working with other RSCs across the UK• Could be used eg to support a college’s HE provision
Opportunities: events
• All details at http://bit.ly/RSCWalesevents• Lunchtime Bytes – one hour webinars
– Focus on Open Educational Landscape– April 23rd Finding free and open resources– May 13th Online learning at scale: responding to the MOOC invasion– May 24th More on OER and MOOC (details soon)
• 9 May – F2F Workshop on Developing and implementing your strategy (Swansea)
• Summer conference: Encouraging Innovation– 18 June online– 26 June face to face (Cardiff)– Details on our website in the next week
Social media for student engagement
What’s your experience?
• How do we use social media to help HE students to “belong” and develop their identity as HE students?– Any examples of how your college is using social media to
engage with HE students?– Any challenges are there for colleges when using social media
for HE engagement?• Some Jisc resources on social media for engagement
– http://bit.ly/152peSz– http://bit.ly/10Z2AFw
• Jisc RSC Wales Guide – out later this term. Contact Lis Parcell for more info or if you would like to review a draft
Staying in [email protected] [email protected]/rsc-wales-higher-ed
Lis Parcell 01792 513261Helpdesk 01792 295959
@rscwales @lisparcell
www.jiscrsc.ac.uk/wales
http://www.slideshare.net/lisparcell/