An Outstanding Inspection

CITY AND ISLINGTON COLLEGEInspection – Contribution of ILT and E-Learning

Jane O’Neill | Director of Students Email: JONeill@candi.ac.uk

An Outstanding Inspection

CITY AND ISLINGTON COLLEGEInspection – Contribution of ILT and E-Learning

Jane O’Neill | Director of Students Email: JONeill@candi.ac.uk

One Amazing College

CITY AND ISLINGTON COLLEGEInspection – Contribution of ILT and E-Learning

Jane O’Neill | Director of Students Email: JONeill@candi.ac.uk

Islington

• 33% of school population bilingual• 49% of school population entitled to free school meals• 45% of school students obtained 5 A-C GCSEs• Unemployment about 8% (Greater London 4.5%)• Islington is the 8th most deprived local authority area in England

(4th in London)• 32% of children live in lone parent families (double London

average)• 89% of students from areas of socio-economic deprivation

CITY AND ISLINGTON COLLEGEInspection – Contribution of ILT and E-Learning

Jane O’Neill | Director of Students Email: JONeill@candi.ac.uk

Vital Statistics 2004/05

Number of students:

Full-time: 4,881

(16-18): 3,078

Part-time: 13,206

Ethnicity: About 50% black and ethnic minority

Levels: Level 1 – 49%, Level 2 – 16%, Level 3 – 18%

Number of courses: 3,503

No of qualifications offered: 386

CITY AND ISLINGTON COLLEGEInspection – Contribution of ILT and E-Learning

Jane O’Neill | Director of Students Email: JONeill@candi.ac.uk

Key Strengths

• Consistently good teaching• Outstanding support• High quality accommodation and teaching

resources• High retention and pass rates for 16-18 year

olds• Successful promotion of equality and diversity• Excellent management and clear strategic

direction

CITY AND ISLINGTON COLLEGEInspection – Contribution of ILT and E-Learning

Jane O’Neill | Director of Students Email: JONeill@candi.ac.uk

First consider the ‘Soft Ss’

•Shared values

•Management style

•Staff culture

•Skills

Then the ‘Hard Ss’

•Systems

•Strategy

•Structures

Determine what will make us successful

for our students

‘Process Management’

How to make us successful

Managing the culture to realise our shared values

Becoming ‘strategic’ and ‘businesslike’

CITY AND ISLINGTON COLLEGEInspection – Contribution of ILT and E-Learning

Jane O’Neill | Director of Students Email: JONeill@candi.ac.uk

The Tools

• Teachers’ console

• 1700 student PCs

• 1:1 ratio PC: staff

“Assistive technology - excellent”

CITY AND ISLINGTON COLLEGEInspection – Contribution of ILT and E-Learning

Jane O’Neill | Director of Students Email: JONeill@candi.ac.uk

College Intranet

“Intranet is well maintained, with good resources to support learning”

CITY AND ISLINGTON COLLEGEInspection – Contribution of ILT and E-Learning

Jane O’Neill | Director of Students Email: JONeill@candi.ac.uk

College Intranet

“Induction is well planned”

CITY AND ISLINGTON COLLEGEInspection – Contribution of ILT and E-Learning

Jane O’Neill | Director of Students Email: JONeill@candi.ac.uk

Candi Online Database

“MIS provides reliable data which are used effectively”

“Students’ prior experience and educational achievements are on the Intranet – used for target setting”

CITY AND ISLINGTON COLLEGEInspection – Contribution of ILT and E-Learning

Jane O’Neill | Director of Students Email: JONeill@candi.ac.uk

Studentweb home page

“E-Learning strategy is good with clear plans to develop further the Intranet for teaching and learning”

CITY AND ISLINGTON COLLEGEInspection – Contribution of ILT and E-Learning

Jane O’Neill | Director of Students Email: JONeill@candi.ac.uk

Studentweb – Learning Centres

• Online Student Induction to Learning Centres

“Sufficient PC access for independent study”

“Resources are very good”

CITY AND ISLINGTON COLLEGEInspection – Contribution of ILT and E-Learning

Jane O’Neill | Director of Students Email: JONeill@candi.ac.uk

Studentweb – Learning Centres

• Online Student Induction to Learning Centres

“Easy access to resources”

“Good technical support”

CITY AND ISLINGTON COLLEGEInspection – Contribution of ILT and E-Learning

Jane O’Neill | Director of Students Email: JONeill@candi.ac.uk

Studentweb – Learning Centres

• Image Search - SCRAN

CITY AND ISLINGTON COLLEGEInspection – Contribution of ILT and E-Learning

Jane O’Neill | Director of Students Email: JONeill@candi.ac.uk

Studentweb - Careers

• Islington e-folio

An on-line version of the Islington Sixth Form College 'Good Website Guide 2005/06' which is researched by Mick Towner, one of the HE Advisers at the College.

“Careers support and guidance is very good”

CITY AND ISLINGTON COLLEGEInspection – Contribution of ILT and E-Learning

Jane O’Neill | Director of Students Email: JONeill@candi.ac.uk

VLE - BTEC National Diploma in Forensic Science

“In the best lessons teachers use ILT effectively”

“Teachers make good use of ILT to illustrate complex information”

CITY AND ISLINGTON COLLEGEInspection – Contribution of ILT and E-Learning

Jane O’Neill | Director of Students Email: JONeill@candi.ac.uk

Small-scale E-Learning Development Projects

• To familiarise students with the different keys on the calculator

• The calculator is colour coded i.e. all the number keys are a light blue

• The four basic operators are a darker blue

• The calculator has a screen display

• There is also a help facility ? On the calculator that explains how to use it

Interactive calculator

CITY AND ISLINGTON COLLEGEInspection – Contribution of ILT and E-Learning

Jane O’Neill | Director of Students Email: JONeill@candi.ac.uk

E-Learning Champions

• Role of the E-Learning ChampionThe role of the E-Learning Champion is to encourage/mentor staff to use technology in the management and delivery of the curriculum and to encourage the use of ICT for teaching and learning.

CITY AND ISLINGTON COLLEGEInspection – Contribution of ILT and E-Learning

Jane O’Neill | Director of Students Email: JONeill@candi.ac.uk

E-Learning Team

CITY AND ISLINGTON COLLEGEInspection – Contribution of ILT and E-Learning

Jane O’Neill | Director of Students Email: JONeill@candi.ac.uk

Staff Training Materials

• Classroom of the Future – Teachers’ Console

CITY AND ISLINGTON COLLEGEInspection – Contribution of ILT and E-Learning

Jane O’Neill | Director of Students Email: JONeill@candi.ac.uk

The Next Stage – Good to Great

Some planned developments:

• New VLE

• Online enrolment

• Online registration

CITY AND ISLINGTON COLLEGEInspection – Contribution of ILT and E-Learning

Jane O’Neill | Director of Students Email: JONeill@candi.ac.uk

Picture Credits

• Slide 1 – photograph of students: Sonia Davda

• Slide 2 – all photographs: James Brittain

• Slide 5 – photograph of students: Sonia Davda