E-Learning Champions...and enhancing learning

Clive YoungAdvisory Team LeaderE-Learning EnvironmentsISD

UCL E-Learning Champions

• How E-Learning has become mainstream at UCL• Why the E-Learning Champions initiative is important• What is the role of the E-Learning Champions?• Building and sustaining the network

E-learning as innovation

http://www.flickr.com/photos/wfryer/1342355056/

E-Learning has become mainstream

• Total Moodle 5, 500 courses• 500,000 hits on UCL Moodle a month• 28,000 unique users visit Moodle each month

i.e. ‘everybody at UCL’• 3,200 Moodle quizzes

E-Learning has become mainstream

• 10,000 hours of recorded material on Lecturecast – 100,000 hours viewed

E-Learning has become mainstream

• 4, 100 Turnitin assignments• 85,000 Turnitin submissions

For the 1st time - a common toolset

Moodle – beyond the baseline?

Changing how we teach e.g. voting

Technology beginning to turn lectures on their head…

http://lecturecast.ucl.ac.uk:8080/ess/echo/presentation/adc1491d-6554-49fc-a595-74a9093a3be5

Beyond the classroom

UCLeXtend

What do students say?

Better contact with staff

Learning from each other & across disciplines

More consistency in e-learning

Some staff are quick and use the resource really well; couldn't ask for better.

Others seem either tech-shy, slow to load materials, or don't

get the links right …My #### classes … seemed to have an aversion to any 21st century technology

altogether.

Consistency and more control in

Moodle would be good

The UCL e-learning strategythemes

Raising our profile as a global educational leader

“ Technology will make the voices and ideas of UCL experts available to a global audience, enhancing the digital identity of UCL as provider of both excellent research and education.

Distance learning and CPD programmes will increase our global presence, highlight our unique expertise and connect to new audiences.

Open educational resources will enhance our educational identity and profile.”

Connecting students, academics and ideas

“Technology will increase opportunities for students to connect and interact with each other and with academic staff, to learn about their work, and to foster collaboration across the institution and beyond.

Technology will also help build links with communities and enable input from the public, alumni and employers.”

Opening education within UCL

“Online courses and resources will where possible be opened to students across the institution supporting a more interdisciplinary experience, and a stronger sense of UCL’s leading edge research; technology is uniquely able to do this.”

Technology-enabled learning spaces and places

“The UCL campus will accommodate diversity in teaching and learning approaches, including traditional lecturing, facilitated group work, project activity, individual working and social spaces with integrated technologies and support for bring-your-own devices.”

Preparing staff and students for the future

“Students and staff will be able to use a range of institutional technologies together with their own choice of devices and external services to create their own ‘personal learning/working environment’ for study, collaboration and communication ”

Seamless use of technology

“Students and staff will be able to use a range of institutional technologies together with their own choice of devices and external services to create their own ‘personal learning/working environment’ for study, collaboration and communication ”

How do we get there?

New E-learning support structure

Core services

Innovation

Evaluation

CALT

Academic e-learning

advisory

E-Learning EnvironmentsCore services and technologies

Moodle - esp. communication, quizzes, mediaLecturecastE-portfolios (MyPortfolio)Electronic voting in lecturesTurnitin Web conferencingTraining & support

Innovation & DevelopmentE-assessment - projectsVideo and audio - projectsUCL eXtendLearning spacesISD e-learning student surveyE-learning Development Grants

NetworkingDistance Learning ForumChampions networkThe Digital Department – CMALT group

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/isd/staff/e-learning

Dept. engagement + local champions

William Gibson

“The future is already here — it’s just not very evenly distributed.“

1999

UCL Champions

For each department/division• Academic champion• Admin/support champion

75% of UCL departments now represented

Links to UCL Teaching Administrators Forum (200 members) and JISC Digital Department project – developing e-learning with TAs

The role of the champions

• Build a network of departmental e-learning champions

• Develop departmental e-learning statements highlighting support needs.– Work with ELE and CALT to support development.– Measure and review departmental e-learning provision

periodically, feeding back into departmental and central quality frameworks.

• Identify and help disseminate good local, UCL and sector-wide practice, and support local events and networks.

The role of the champions

• This is your network • How can we build and sustain?• How can we better support you and departments?• What are development needs? • How can they be met?• How do we communicate (together)?• How do we develop interest groups?• How do we capture and disseminate ‘good practice’?