Joint Information Systems Committee Supporting Further and Higher Education What do these have in common?

Supporting Further and Higher Education

Joint Information Systems Committee

What do these have in common?



Managed Learning Environments The work of the MLE Steering Group

Richard Everett

JISC MLE Co-ordinator

web: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/jciel/mlesg/

email: [email protected]



So what do these have in common?



• Were born when Margaret Thatcher was in her first term

• Have never owned a vinyl record

• Have never used a typewriter

• Have never owned a black & white TV

• Don’t remember the Cold War

• Think there has always been MTV.

• Were born when

• Have never owned a

• Have never used a

• Have never owned a

• Don’t remember the

• Think there has always been

Today’s students



The Managed Learning Environment Steering Group (MLESG)

• JISC Committee for Integrated Environments for Learners (JCIEL)

• Oversee the definition of an MLE, for FE (and HE)

• WILL NOT design systems

• WILL define a set of interfaces to allow the various systems to work together.



Advice and guidance is needed

• At all levels

• Awareness raising

• Significant changes – Managerially

– Culturally and

– Pedagogically

• Workshops

• Launch events.



Terminology

• On-line learning system

• Virtual Campus

• Learner Management System (LMS)

• Virtual Learning Environment (VLE)

• Managed Learning Environment (MLE)

Quality Process

BusinessSystems

LearningResources

CurriculumMapping

Assessment

Communication

Delivery

TutorSupport

Tracking

OtherAgencies

OtherColleges

Virtual Learning Environment

Managed Learning Environment

Student Record System

IMS

Off-LineLearning

RegistersIMS



Strategic positioning of the sector

• IMS (+ extensions) - vendors & colleges

• Functional specification

• FE / Learning & Skills sector money (conditions attached!).



Vendors’ meetings

• 20th November 2000– VLE and MIS vendors

– FERL / BECTa Conference

– Feedback

• In the future– 6th April NLN (CATs)

– VLE and Content

– UfI, CETIS, RDN, UKOLN, NLN, DNER etc.



• Summer 2001

• Collaboration of – VLE vendors

– MIS vendors

– Content vendors

– Colleges

• Interfacing/Interoperability

• £250,000

• Reports on experience.

Interoperability pilots

7/99 ‘Building MLEs in HE’



MLE conference

• Key VLE players will be present

• Hands on opportunity with the products

MLEs - ‘Your Choice, Your Future’

• Presentations differentiating the vendors– Functionality, Pricing strategy, Company futures

– Competitors

– Institutional relationships examples

• Manchester 23rd/24th May 2001

• London 29th/30th May [email protected]



Messages to go out to the sector

• Don’t panic - help and guidance are available

• FEFC money does not have to be accounted for until July 2002

• IMS (+appropriate extensions)

• Consider whether to wait until the vendors actually produce a VLE that suits you

• 5 P’s (Proper Planning Prevents Poor Performance).



Moving Forward

• Random Acts of Progress?

• Pockets of Excellence?

• Need joined up thinking for...

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Why IMS? - 1

• Integrating content from many different developers

• Re-package courses by mixing and matching the modules with home grown content

• Labelling so that learners all over the world can navigate to find what they need.



Why IMS? - 2

Web: www.imsproject.org

• Easily match learning objectives to materials from disparate developers

• Tracking how students are progressing with different vendors learning materials

• Empower students with a lasting record of their learning profile

• Instantly update registers on college Management Information Systems (MISs).



Future Success

• A very collaborative relationship

• Flexibility by all parties - Universities, Colleges, Vendors of Content, VLE, MIS etc)

• Dedication to quality educational programs

• And…Service!



Trend to Enterprise SolutionsThe early adopter stage is behind us!

As the “Net Generation” enters colleges ...Universities ...and businesses

• Institutions will move from “dabbling” to serious, enterprise-wide solutions for on-campus and off

• Safer for colleges/institutionsto go for IMS solutions.



Eventually, there will be an industry shake-out

• New industries follow a similar pattern of

– Many entrants early on

– Followed by a few rising to the top

– The rest eventually go bust

• Don’t get caught with a VLE that doesn’t survive or cannot be supported

• Go for IMS (+ appropriate extensions).



A final thought on standards…

…keep on track



Changes are afoot

• From

Sage on the stage

• to

Guide on the side

• Or

From Pedagogue to Digigogue



Thank you

Email - [email protected]

Web - http://www.jisc.ac.uk/jciel/mlesg/

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