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TELFest a festival designed to encourage the adoption of
Technology Enhanced Learning
Farzana Latif Technology Enhanced Learning Manager
University of Sheffield
Outline
• Context • Why TELFest • Impact
• Future Direc9ons
Technology Enhanced Learning
Team
Work across faculties
Promoting Sharing of Good Practice
E-Learning Strategy
Manage Learning Technologies
Guidance and Support Focus on Learning
Wide Scale Adoption
Adoption of TEL
• Not all academics/teachers are engaged with TEL ac9vi9es • Time, Teaching Priori9es (promo9on), Conflic9ng Priori9es, Limited Digital Skills, Could create it myself, Don’t think it’s a good idea, Nothing in it for me, History – Old resentments, and many more . . .
Resistance to change . .
INTERESTED ACTIVE
OBSERVER CONTRIBUTOR .
PASSIVE ACTIVE
OBSERVER CHALLENGER .
E N E R G Y High
High
E N G A G E M E N T
Edmonstone, 2003
Regular staff development sessions
Faculty Liaison
In September 2013 Drop in Sessions Blackboard New Features Sessions
Jan 2014 Learning & Teaching Conference ! High AZendance
UCISA TEL 2014 Survey How is the adop9on and use of technology enhanced learning tools enabled within your ins9tu9on?
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Bring together TEL Ac9vity Change Percep9ons Not just ‘VLE Team’
Offer Timely Training Develop Prac9ce Support Sharing of Prac9ce Pedagogic Focused ‘Why’ as well as ‘How’ Create a Presence Flexible and Fun Space
It is important to meet the needs of the 21st century
student, by using technology effec9vely to enhance students’ learning prac9ces helping them to engage more with their educa9on. It is by
keeping at the forefront of such learning and teaching developments that we will improve study skills and degree outcomes of our students.
Professor Anne M Peat Pro Vice Chancellor for Learning
Bringing together TEL across the ins9tu9on
Something for everyone
(‘right ’ balance)
Beginners ! Advanced flexible
Aligned to objectives
“Learning new skills and finding ideas for innova9ve approaches to teaching.“
- Delegate Feedback
“TELFest is just brilliant and has really helped my development as a teacher“ - Delegate Feedback “Variety of Content. “
- Delegate Feedback
“A good range of sessions covering some interes9ng and topical TEL topics! I came away with some good ideas.“
- Delegate Feedback
“first chance to network with colleagues from outside my faculty since the L&T conference “
- Delegate Feedback
“there was a real buzz“ - Delegate Feedback
“The drop-‐in session allowed me to be taught a number of things which I was having difficulty with. I think this type of resource is brilliant, so thanks very much for this!“
- Delegate Feedback
Making it Fun
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160 signed up
registra9on closed a
week before
85% would
definitely aZend next
year
98% would
recommend it to
colleagues
175 aZendees
21 sessions
600 session sign
ups
Session Most Popular Sessions
Using Social Media in learning and teaching
Most Popular
Lunch9me Session -‐ Introduc9on to Flipped Learning
Lunch9me Session -‐ TwiKer in Teaching Watch, Watch and Watch Again -‐ Using Lecture/Personal Capture Google Apps for Produc9vity, Learning and Teaching Lunch9me Session -‐ Panel Discussion on Assessment and Feedback Lunch9me Session -‐ Showcase of InnovaPve PracPce with Learning Technologies
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Directly enhanced prac9ce during drop in sessions.
Lots of follow up. -‐ Faculty drop ins -‐ Departmental Sessions -‐ lunch9me sessions (learnt more about
what's important to our academics) -‐ case studies
As a direct result of networking at TelFest we have a new project and new contacts.
-‐Delegate Feedback
No longer ‘just’ the Blackboard Shaped sessions that we deliver Team building Evidence of Colleagues implemen9ng technologies
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Content of the sessions
Networking
To Learn more about Technologies
Change your prac9ce/Develop new skills
Reasons for AKending TELFest
Corporate Information & Computing Services.
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Technology Enhanced Learning Festival.
150 aZended
13 sessions
3 Av. No. Sessions AZended
87 NEW
Strongly Agree
Agree
Neither agree nor disagree
Disagree
Strongly Disagree
TELFest introduced ideas/approaches that I will implement in my pracPce
262 TELFest Alumni
Half/Full Day Events BeZer Promo9on Enhance Networking Call for par9cipa9on
More Updates More Innova9on Longer Sessions New Topics Student Involvement
Offer even more
Value
Questions?
Would TELFest work at your institution? Do you do something similar?
Farzana Latif, Technology Enhanced Learning Manager
@farzanalatif
As a direct result of networking at TELFest we have a new project and new contacts.
-‐Delegate Feedback
