FELTAG Coalition Meeting 15th March including an update on Jisc work on engaging learners in digital developments presented by Sarah Knight

1. FELTAG Coalition Group Meeting #FELTAG
Sarah Knight, Senior Co-design Manager, Student Experience, Jisc
15/03/2016

2. Aims for today
»To consult with Coalition members on proposals for how
the group will operate in the future
»To consult with Coalition members on FE and Skills visions
and to gather views to inform their implementation
»To consult on new resources and products being
developed by Coalition members
»To agree next steps in terms of collaborative working on
sector priorities
»How we make a difference and support FE and Skills
providers
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3. Icebreaker
» Introduce yourself to the person sat next to you
» On a post-it record:
› Why are you here, what do you want to take away from today
» http://padlet.com/sarahknight/FELTAG2016 - please share your
ideas and reflections
» #FELTAG
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4. Overview of agenda
»11:10 Proposals for future
working of the FE and Skills
Coalition
»11:20 Developing our digital
vision for FE and Skills
»12:20 How are we supporting
colleges and providers with
FELTAG?
› Leadership, management
and governance
› Continuous professional
development
»13:15 Lunch and networking
»14:00 Continuous
professional development
»Learner-led engagement
»Curriculum Development
»15:00 Next steps – how can
we work together
collaboratively on key
priorities to support our
community?
»15:30 Close
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5. FE and Skills Coalition – Moving forward15/03/2016
http://padlet.com/sarahknight/FELTAG2016

6. Proposals for future working of the FE and Skills Coalition
»Propose the change of name to FE and Skills Coalition to
be inclusive of the agendas in Northern Ireland, Scotland
andWales
»For the wider group to meet f2f twice a year – March and
October
»The group to become more responsive – active use of the
mailing list, #FELTAG, regular webinars, sector briefings
»Set up a new Jisc involve blog to keep community
updated on developments and news from the Coalition
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7. Key principles moving forward
»To enable the sharing of
effective practice from UK FE
and skills providers and
Coalition partners
»To enhance the use of
technology in supporting
providers’ core business
»Through:
› Communication
› Co-operation
› Collaboration
»What it means for providers:
› Demonstrating quick wins
› A source of guidance for
what works
› Facilitating the sharing of
effective practice
› Responsive sector briefings
on key issues
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8. What are we doing?
»The evolution of FELTAG: A
glimpse at effective practice in
UK FE and Skills (March 16)
»Share your examples of practice
for next version of this guide
http://bit.ly/FELTAGpractice16
by 18 April 2016
»Senior leaders think pieces
»Publish online version late June
2016
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Available from
http://bit.ly/FELTAGMarch16

9. What this means for partners
New
ideas
Consult
Develop
product
Pilot
with
users
Refine
product
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A more agile
approach to
gathering ideas
and feedback
from Coalition
members
Create time
limited user
groups around
key projects
Range of
opportunities to
input on
products/projects
Outputs
which benefit
providers

10. Developing our digital visions for FE and Skills15/03/2016
Sarah Davies and Sue Attewell

11. 15/03/2016

12. Learner-led engagement15/03/2016
http://padlet.com/sarahknight/FELTAG2016

13. Jisc digital student projects
»Phase 1 study reviewed students’ expectations and experiences of
the digital environment at university and we spoke to 500 staff and
students during our consultation (2013-2014)
»We conducted a review of practice in schools to identify likely
incoming expectations (2014)
»In phase 2 we focused on FE speaking to 220 learners and 300 staff
from colleges across the UK (2014-2015)
»In phase 3 we are speaking to over 100 learners from ACL, WBL,
apprenticeships and offender learners (2015-2016)
»Phase 4 Online learners study, review of practice and speaking to
students studying on online or partly online courses (2016 -)
http://digitalstudent.jiscinvolve.org
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14. http://bit.ly/FEdigitalstudentoutputs
»Card sort – for FE and one for Skills
»Learner profile forms – for capturing learners’ technology
use
»Guidance on how to run focus groups with learners
»Digital students are different posters
»Enhancing the digital student experience postcards
»Benchmarking the student digital experience
»Learner voice video clips – FE and Skills learners speaking
about their expectations of technology
13/07/15 Enhancing your learners’ digital experience

15. Card sort activity and learner profile
13/07/15 Enhancing your learners’ digital experience
http://bit.ly/FEdigitalstudentoutputs

16. Benchmarking the student digital experience
»Jisc, NUS andTSEP
»http://bit.ly/digstudentbenchmark
25/02/16 Measuring your students'digital experience

17. Digital students are different posters

18. Enhancing the digital student experience postcards

19. Learner digital experience tracker
»The Learner digital experience tracker enables colleges and skills
providers to:
› gather evidence from learners about their digital experience, and
track changes over time
› make better informed decisions about the digital environment
› target resources for improving digital provision
› plan other research, data gathering and learner engagement
around digital issues
› demonstrate quality enhancement and learner engagement to
external bodies and to learners themselves
› http://bit.ly/jiscdigidataservice
25/02/16 Measuring your students'digital experience

20. Pilot providers
»Cornwall College
»Barton Perveril Sixth Form
College
»North Lindsey College
»Basingstoke College
»The Sheffield College
»Fife College
»Harlow college
»Aquinas College
»KeyTraining
»Michael JohnAcademy
»Specialist colleges:
»Royal National College for the
Blind (RNC)
»FairField Farm College
»Surveys run from March to end
of April
»Analysis of data for providers
and for sector
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21. 25/02/16 Measuring your students'digital experience

22. Enhancing the student digital experience
https://www.jisc.ac.uk
/guides/enhancing-
the-digital-student-
experience
Findingsfrom FE
DigitalStudentproject
and 50 snapshotsof
currentpracticefrom
colleges
http://digitalstudent.jis
cinvolve.org/wp/exem
plars/fe-snapshot-
case-studies/
Updated
online
guide
available
from:
09/09/15 Enhancing your learners’ digital experience

23. Working in partnership with our learners
»Learners in our studies saw the digital experience as an opportunity
to contribute and get involved
»Digital engagement methods such as social media, padlets, twitter
walls, vox pops etc are popular...
»Digital learners are different – it is important that the experience of
different groups is represented
»Learners can get involved in different ways e.g. champions, change
agents, digital leaders, digital ambassadors, student fellows,
student ambassadors, student partners, student researchers, co-
designers, co-creators, co-developers
»This is an issue which can help change relationships between staff
and students
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24. Examples of current practice
»Blackburn college - Digipals
»Portsmouth college – Apple Ambassadors
»Sussex Downs College – Student digital
leaders
»Barnet and Southgate College - DigiDesk
initiative
»Leeds City College – digital leaders &
involvement of SU
»Harlow College – digital champions
»Prospects College ofAdvancedTechnology -
digital learning ambassadors
»Oldham College – digital leaders starting in
Sept 16
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25. Benefits of working in partnership
» Gain an experience of leadership and influencing change
» Gain experience of using research to shape change
» Students can gain recognition through awards such as leadership awards, extra-
curricular awards and awards accredited through external bodies
» Increases confidence and skills (e.g. communication, team-working,
management, research skills)
» Enhances networking with e.g. employers, community
» Improved employability and job prospects
Benefits for learners:
29/06/2015 Driving institutional change through staff-student partnership

26. http://can.jiscinvolve.org @CANagogy
» The Change agents’ network supports students working as change agents, digital
pioneers, student fellows and students working in partnership with staff on technology
related change projects
» Over 420 members subscribed to the CAN community mailing list
» Facilitates the sharing of best practice through
› Support for face to face networking events – 2 June, University of Lincoln
› CAN webinars
› CAN case studies – 10 institutional case studies now available
» Developing successful student staff partnerships online guide - http://bit.ly/jisc-
partnership
» Journal of Educational Innovation, Partnership and Change
» SEDA accredited Jisc Institutional Change Leader online course
What is the Change agents’ network (CAN)?
10/09/2015 From pilot to embedded practice: Scaling up and embedding learner as change agent initiatives

27. Developing successful student staff partnerships
» New online guide available from:
http://bit.ly/jisc-partnership » Benefits of student-staff partnerships
» Quick start
» Viewpoints implementation framework,
resources and guidance
› Partnership setup
› Partnership implementation
› Capabilities, development and
accreditation
› Sustaining and embedding
partnerships based on evaluation of
impact
» Case studies
» Webinars
» Other agency initiatives

28. Summer of Student Innovation
»2013 and 2014 we funded a combined total of 41 projects.
»Jisc is continuing work with several of these projects, a
number of which we are exploring the possibility of
offering them as a Jisc shared service.
»Three projects are now delivering products and services
being used by universities and colleges.
»In 2015 we funded 21 ideas projects and 4 start-ups
projects selected from 80 ideas.
»Five ideas are being developed into products by Jisc and
two start-ups are now delivering products to universities.
http://sosi.jiscinvolve.org/
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29. Sports Covered App
»The team:SportsStudent at a
college
»An app that outlines the laws of
various sports along with
technique points allowing the
user to analyse their performance
Heart of Worcestershire College
2/03/2016 Summer of Student Innovation

30. BrightHub App
»The team: students training to
be electricians who are
seeking apprenticeships
»An app to help apprentice
electricians to engage with
employers so they can secure
an apprenticeship
Yeovil College
2/03/2016 Summer of Student Innovation

31. Connected Apprentice
»The team: learning technology
apprentices
»An app to help apprentices in
land based courses to engage
with employers
Sparsholt College
2/03/2016 Summer of Student Innovation

32. VoiceIt
»The team: Students and staff
at a specialist college
»An accessible app for students
with special needs to report
issues anonymously or give
feedback
»The app will be able to report
life issues such as bullying,
relationships, family etc.
Treloar College
2/03/2016 Summer of Student Innovation

33. Accessible by design
»The team: Students and staff
from Doncaster College
»Step by step cookery cards for
supported living which uses
augmented reality to provide
video instructions
»Attracting interested from
chefs, publishers and local
council
UCanCook -The Augmented
Reality Cookbook
»The team: Computing
students and staff from
Shipley College
»Tactile representations of
scratch visual programming
produced using a 3D printer
»Run a course project
developed by the students
»Wide application
Visual Programming for the
Visually Impaired
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34. Accessible by design
»The team: Staff working with
students from the National
Star Centre
»All my access needs
remembered
»An architecture for an
accessible IT profile to
configure access across
locations
My Access Passport - M.A.P.
»https://www.jisc.ac.uk/rd/proje
cts/accessible- by-design
»See project videos at
http://bit.ly/1WjkaAH
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Find out more…

35. Student Ideas Competition 2016
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»Open to all learners in universities, colleges or learning
providers.
»15 successful teams will receive £2000 and to attend a 4
day design sprint 8-11 August.
»A pitches day on the 23 August will select 5 ideas to be
developed into products and receive a further £3000.
»Further information see
https://jisc.ac.uk/student-innovation

36. SupportingTechnology Start-ups 2016
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»Open to established teams with existing products seeking
to further pilot their product within colleges, universities
or skills providers.
»Up to 5 selected teams with receive £20,000 and
participate in a 6 month pre-accelerator programme.
»Further information see
https://jisc.ac.uk/student-innovation

37. Discussion prompts
»Share examples of current practice and projects
»What one thing can we do to support providers with
engaging their learners in the development of the digital
curriculum and environment?
»http://padlet.com/sarahknight/FELTAG2016
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38. http://digitalstudent.jiscinvolve.org
Except where otherwise noted, this work
is licensed under CC-BY-NC-ND
Find out more…
Digital Student
#digitalstudent
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Sarah Knight
Sarah.knight@jisc.ac.uk

39. Next steps15/03/2016
http://padlet.com/sarahknight/FELTAG2016

40. Next steps
»How can we work together collaboratively on key
priorities to support our community?
»Review the outputs collated from the vision
activity and what you have heard today:
›What can you do to progress work in this
area/support colleges and providers moving
forward?
›Who else does this need to be involved?
»Share your ideas with colleagues on your table
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