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Harnessing Technology to Transform Personal and Community Development Learning – the LSC’s Priorities Jon Gamble Director of Adult Learning 1 March 2006. Welcome. Introduction. Understanding the language Interactive activity Understanding the PCDL learning landscape

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  1. Harnessing Technology to Transform Personal and Community Development Learning – the LSC’s Priorities Jon Gamble Director of Adult Learning 1 March 2006 Welcome

  2. Introduction • Understanding the language • Interactive activity • Understanding the PCDL learning landscape • Investing in technology • E-guides facts • How is it making a difference?

  3. Post-16 Education – the home of simplicity and clarity • Technology – the tool of time saving • The mysterious world of e-learning

  4. Common words and acronyms in the • e-learning field • Smartboard, Blog, Broadband, M-learning, B-learning, • Moodle, Avatar, backbone, bandwidth, Digital Divide, • Firewall, Intranet, Internet, Extranet, Voice over IP • ICT, ILT, VLE, MLE, LMS, CMS, P2P Network, PDF, • PC, PDA, TREACL, CACL, MIAP, ADSL, CBL, CBT, • FTP, GIF, JPEG, HTML, HTTP, ISP, LANs MANs and • WANs, SCORM-URL, Virus, VPN, WAP, WIFI and • WYSIWYG

  5. WDIAM? • What Does It all Mean? • Fingers on buttons please!

  6. What does NIACE stand for? • National Institute for Adults in Continuing Education • National Institute of Adult and Community Education • National Information and Advice for Continuing in Education • National Institute of Adult Continuing Education

  7. What does JISC stand for? • Joint Information Systems Committee • Joint Information Systems Committee • Journal for International Specialist Conferences • Joint Information Systems for Communities.

  8. What is the derivation of the word BLOG? • A combination of words web and log • A combination of the words binary and logarithm • An acronym for the Biographers and Loggers On-line Group • British Library On-line Gallery

  9. What is a Moodle Moot? • A meeting for users of an open-source • An online meeting for users of a particular virtual learning environment • A conference for the Members of Online Operators for Digital Learning Environments • A conference for users of a particular Open Source virtual learningenvironment

  10. Key Messages • Keep it simple! • Simplification and clarity of delivery partners’ roles • Provider for the future • Learning and Skills web

  11. Understanding the PCDL learning landscape • Safeguarded provision • Informal and formal learning • Wider benefits of learning and the use of technology • Joining up!

  12. Investing in technology • Began with FE colleges: pump-priming • connectivity • materials development • staff development • Support • Widening the remit • DfES e-strategy

  13. How much? • 3-year investment programme of £25m • 06/07 a further £8.15m • Managed by NIACE on behalf of the LSC

  14. E-guides: the facts • Over 1200 e-guides trained directly by the programme • 149 out of 149 LAs that provide publicly funded education • 62 organisations reported training 5130 staff through the cascade programme (July 05) • 81 organisations have reported nearly 9000 staff trained (January 06) • Step change in the understanding of e-learning shown by early results from impact survey

  15. How is it making a difference? • North Yorkshire CC – Language learners • Cheshire CC – Family learning • WEA Eastern Region • Wiltshire • Hillingdon Adult Education

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