Priority themes from pre-meeting questionnaires

1. Priority themes from pre-meeting questionnaires

2. Facilitating progression • Provision of digital portfolios of achievement and lifelong learning records –crossing education and employment boundaries and enabling learner and workforce mobility. • Tackling pockets of persistent disadvantage within a context of relative prosperity. • Working with community learning initiatives in rural and urban areas. • Inclusion – making sure people aren’t kept out of LLL through lack of funding • Enabling progression from foundation degrees into flexible 3rd year for honours degree and QTS if appropriate • FE-HE progression • Support for deaf students

3. Sharing resources and collaborative teaching • Teacher collaboration on course development • Student collaboration • Adaptation and reuse of learning resources • Subject focus: • Language learning, intercultural communication, European citizenship

4. Sharing resources and collaborative teaching • Adaptation of Uni Sussex Info Skills Tutorial for use in other institutions • Possible integration of this with learning packages in other institutions

5. Supporting the independent lifelong learner • Making more flexible, non-traditional learning opportunities available – learning circles and study groups • Making e-portfolios available for learners • Developing personal learning environments for students new to study at HE level to allow them to maximise their development at home, college and work

6. Afternoon discussions at the meeting

7. Kent & Sussex • Brighton • PETAL • Issues delivery services to multi institutional site Hastings • LLN? • OU • Issues delivery services to multi institutional site Hastings • LLN - Can provide complementary service / resources?

8. Kent & Sussex • Surrey Inst Art and Design • Regional bid subject centre Arts • Learning material resource • Craft study centre • Wide audience FE, Schools, Art Centres other learners through existing network(s).

9. Kent & Sussex • Canterbury • multi institutional site Hastings and Medway • FE Sussex • Experience of implementing Accessibility • Sussex • R&D Libraries Brighton and Hove • Portal to shared electronic resources • Share resources with FE (learning objects – generic/reuse)

10. Kent & Sussex • Kent New Technology Inst • All HEIs and FECs in Kent • Medway – student do not belong to 1 inst • Build a shared coherent infrastructure of technology and resource. • Kent • Medway

11. Kent & Sussex Questions re Bidding Process • Feeling that the process is already advanced • How does HESA role figure in the selection? • Brokerage

12. Surrey & Berkshire • Pictiva - AHDS Visual Arts (based at Surrey Institute of Art and Design) • Tool for creating learning objects based around images • Freely available now for FE and HE • Would like to encourage institutions to use this and build up knowledge of how learning resources can be repurposed for different contexts • Would like to identify training needs and cultural shifts required for making the most of the tool. http://vads.ahds.ac.uk/learning/pictiva/index.html

13. Surrey & Berkshire • Kingston & St George’s • Have students working with school students to talk about what HE is like – e-mentors • Is integrated into school curriculum by being embedded into modules of teaching – not just an add-on • Would also like to look at supporting healthcare placement students electronically, making learning resources available on an on-demand basis in the workplace

14. Surrey & Berkshire • Reading • Tend to collaborate internationally rather than within the region • Are involved with local collaboration with Newbury College – Reading courses are delivered at Newbury • Are interested in the nuts and bolts of partnership work – software licences, remote access difficulties, logistical and administrative problems • Not very glamorous, but necessary!

15. Surrey & Berkshire • Thames Valley University • Offer a certificate in personal professional development • Is a ‘carrier bag’ to allow lifelong learners to design programmes to meet their needs • Would like to collaborate with professional bodies to design accredited programmes

16. MK, Oxon, Bucks, Hants & IoW • What are the key regional issues? • Progression • Mobility • Alleviating the discrepancy across the region • SE characterised by 55+, look at marketing opportunity to extend lifelong learning to this age group – this is where regional agenda and HEFCE agenda may differ. • Refugee dispersals – delivering lifelong learning to people who may be well educated but have no records • Language issues – proximity to Europe

17. MK, Oxon, Bucks, Hants & IoW • Majority of LLL takes place in FE (in community centres, etc.) How do you get the technology in place to support this? • Maintaining attendance registers could be one use of technology in this area • Explore access through mobile vehicles rather than technologies. • There is already a lot of technology hat exists in the community – can we use what is already there, eg in UKOnline centres?

18. MK, Oxon, Bucks, Hants & IoW • Explore how institutions can share – also explore how to use tools such as RELOAD, JORUM, TOIA in this context • Making use of Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute (OMII) at Southampton • We need to build on existing initiatives – very difficult to form a partnership in the time available 

19. MK, Oxon, Bucks, Hants & IoW • Through AimHigher – putting together proposals for a Lifelong Learning Network • Provide impartial professional advice to learners, brokerage service • All institutions have different APL procedures, can we explore commonality amongst these? • Could we have a regional project that looked at what was around support e-learning? • There is lots going on and we need to be joined up, this is a pilot of what can be done.