Tag Archives: WELL

Project impact and stakeholder engagement

January 21, 2010 – 2:41 pm

The WELL project evaluation workshops on 3rd Novemer 2009 showed that WBL arena can be quite a tough nut for HE to crack. The workshops thrashed out some of the key issues in relation to
“success” for all stakeholders and what constitutes a “successful” WBL project; and
developing a stakeholder engagement strategy for WBL projects.
Notes made at [...]

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Project presentation

January 8, 2010 – 11:47 am
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Informal meeting at Middlesex

December 17, 2009 – 8:24 pm

On Wednesday 16th December I travelled down to Middlesex University to find out more about their WBL provisions, and particularly how an institution can ‘roll out’ a model of WBL once it has been piloted as part of a project.
I was subject to the wonderful hospitality of Dr. George Dafoulas (MUSKET project), Dr. Barbara Workman [...]

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Learner Survey

November 13, 2009 – 3:34 pm

As part of the JISC WELL project, we are conducting research into the views of the students on the two pilot programmes, Cert. in Reablement Support and MA Integrated Emergency Management. A questionnaire carried out helps us to understand more about students’:

familiarity with technologies for learning (Questions 1, 3, 4, 5),
level of comfort in using [...]

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Evaluation

October 30, 2009 – 11:01 am

The WELL project has adopted an ongoing approach to evaluation, using a reflective approach that is designed to secure continuous improvement. The process will have a stong emphasis on evaluating the project against its objectives, its operations and its impact on the institution, sector, employers, students and other stakeholders. The WBL arena can be quite [...]

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APEL Assembly

October 9, 2009 – 6:19 pm

JISC funded projects favour a collaborative approach, where cross-fertilisation of ideas and sharing of good practice can lead to innovation. Assemblies are one such example of such collaboration. On 8th October we hosted an assembly at the University of Bradford (co-organised by TELSTAR) on the subject of APEL (accredited prior and experiential learning) and how [...]

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How Flexible is Our Teaching?

August 18, 2009 – 9:14 am

This survey was offered to teaching staff between July-November 2009. At the time of writing this (August 2009), the survey received 31 respondents, and results will be incorporated into the next version of the Baseline Survey.
Significant results are summarised as follows:
 
 
 
  

97% of respondents stated they use Blackboard for various purposes including discussions, course notes, formative [...]

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Draft concept map of model Version 1.2

August 10, 2009 – 10:54 am

Draft Model for WELL Project V1.2

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Project Methodology

July 23, 2009 – 2:23 pm

Initially I will focus on gathering current practice, research, review and evaluation of materials with support from the academic schools and the Centre for Academic Practice (often referred to by erstwhile name, TQEG).
In the later stages the emphasis will shift towards working directly with learners and their employers, developing and testing approaches to delivery and [...]

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Key Points

July 23, 2009 – 2:08 pm

Some key learning points from the current version of the report that will need to be considered and addressed as part of a flexible model of delivery are:

Negotiability: a model must allow negotiability and a course can be as ‘bite-sized’ modules or whole awards at foundation, degree, or post-graduate level.
Flexibility: the modular structure of the course, [...]

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