Best practice exemplars

As of June 08:

• Supporting HE in FE Colleges (HEFCE 2003):
  http://www.hefce.ac.uk/pubs/hefce/2003/03_15.htm

• Online Pedagogic planner : http://phoebe-app.conted.ox.ac.uk/ & associated case studies http://del.icio.us/oxphoebe/CaseStudies

• WebPA wins a bronze IMS Learning Impact award Each year the IMS Global Learning Consortium invites submissions for their Learning Impact awards with finalists invited to discuss and demonstrate their projects at the IMS Learning Impact conference. We are delighted to report that WebPA, a JISC funded project building an open source online peer assessment system, was awarded a bronze award at the conference. Well done all at WebPA: http://webpa-tec.blogspot.com/

• Good practice guides from Palatine subject centre & HEinFE support from the Academy http://www.palatine.ac.uk/directory/index.php/tla/gpg/ , http://www.ics.heacademy.ac.uk/HEinFE/index.htm , http://www.palatine.ac.uk/themes/he_in_fe/

• Effective practice guides from JISC http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/elearning_pedagogy/elp_assessment.aspx & jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/elearning_pedagogy/elp_learneroutcomes.aspx. Listen to new JISCpodcasts here: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/podcasts.aspx

• JISC infoNET’s excellent website covering best practice, from implementing VLE’s to strategy planning : http://www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/ , including the new tangible benefits infoKIT: http://www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/publications/publications/info/tangible-benefits-publication

• Wolverhampton University QAA best practice protocols (There is also a booklet entitled Introduction to Computer-assisted Assessment - (Word doc - 919KB) This was the basis of a workshop given at the University by Joanna Bull http://asp.wlv.ac.uk/Level5.asp?UserType=8&Level5=5328

• In a recent blog post I mentioned the excellent JISC/ Wolverhampton University epistle website, which contains some very handy tips on implementing an eportfolio system. http://he.rscwmsystems.org.uk/wordpress/?p=227 . The blog post also mentions some local case studies (TCAT) and the new JISC infonet booklet (containing elearning case studies).

• Colleges, universities and the digital challenge:
  This new service http://education.guardian.co.uk/librariesunleashed is a JISC-sponsored supplement is being published as part the Education Guardian which looks into the impact of ICT on academic libraries, JISC's contribution to their development and some of the challenges being faced by libraries in the digital age.
  
  · Oxford Brookes University links to resources including a link to Professor Jude Carrolls handbook: http://www.brookes.ac.uk/services/ocsd/4_resource/plagiarism.html

• The technology exemplar network announced ten winners a few months ago:
  http://he.rscwmsystems.org.uk/wordpress/?p=220 .
  The additional “developing Colleges” have already been announced. They will be mentored by the original 10 organisations. Those successful applicants in our region are:
  Derwen College ,Fircroft College , Halesowen College , North Warwickshire and Hinckley College , Nuneaton Training Centre , Stoke on Trent College , Stourbridge College , The Royal National College for the Blind
  Read more here : http://feandskills.becta.org.uk/display.cfm?page=2019
  
  
• The QAA report on sharing good practice:
  http://www.qaa.ac.uk/reviews/academicReview/learningfromheInFe/HeFe2.asp#conclusions
  
  
• JISCinform podcasts:
  http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/publications/inform20.aspx#thebrightage
  
  
• A very up to date elearning / ICT blog
  http://www.wscelearning.blogspot.com/
  
• http://www.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk/vhi/cerd/HE%20in%20FE%20report.pdf

• City College Norwich Research Centre Site is a good place to start here is the bulletins list http://www.theresearchcentre.co.uk/bull.htm
  
• Best practice using elearning tools : http://staffordshireuniversity.pbwiki.com/ and Helen Walmsley’s first best practice elearning project here : http://crusldi1.staffs.ac.uk/bestpracticemodels/

• Recent outputs from the HEA pathfinder projects have unveiled some best practice in the evolvement of staff development practices. http://kev-brace.blogspot.com/2008/05/pathfinders-projects.html . Included in the above blog post is a link to a free ebook by Professors Collis & Moonen.

• Staffordshire University integrated elearning and QAA documents were commended by HEFCE as good practice.
  http://www.staffs.ac.uk/images/staffs_elearn_benchmark_tcm68-23187.doc & this handbook for QA of elearning is especially useful for elearning managers : http://www.staffs.ac.uk/services/qis/forms/eqahbk.doc

• The ESCalate subject centre has a wealth of resources to help academic staff : http://escalate.ac.uk/index.cfm?action=resources.home , including their regular journal http://escalate.ac.uk/4439

• Professor Gilly Salmons websites emoderating and etivities have a wealth of information to help supporting and delivering learning using IT. http://www.atimod.com/e-moderating/intro.shtml http://www.atimod.com/e-tivities/reviews.shtml

• West Midlands Work Based Learning blog covers some excellent best practice : http://wblwestmids.blogspot.com/2008/04/do-you-want-to-get-to-grips-with-wide.html

• Jo Smedley & Sharon Waller have developed a podcast for the first campaign on e-assessment – you can listen to this at: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/avfiles/news/interviews/podcast32assessment.mp3. They have also collated the research on e-assessment by the JISC and the Academy; e-assessment: case studies, feedback card sort tasks guides, SIGs video clips: assessment, feedback, plagiarism workshop plans http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/ourwork/learning/assessment . A first attempt at providing examples of resources from across JISC and the Academy is available at: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/aboutus/partnerships/he_academy/assessment.aspx

• In 2005 HEFCE funded 74 UK centres of excellence to further develop existing best practice : http://www.hefce.ac.uk/learning/tinits/cetl/final/
  
  Some CETLs of note are:
  
  Coventry’s centre for academic writing has free resources that cover all things scholarly (Harvard, plagiarism prevention, etc):
  http://www.coventry.ac.uk/cu/caw
  
  Hertfordshire Blended learning unit :
  http://perseus.herts.ac.uk/uhinfo/info/blu/blu/blu_home.cfm
  
  Durham’s active learning in computing
  http://www.dur.ac.uk/alic/
  
  Plymouths Higher Education Learning Partnerships (HELP)
  http://www.help-cetl.ac.uk/
  
  Northumbria’s Centre for Excellence in Teaching & Learning in Assessment for Learning:
  http://northumbria.ac.uk/cetl_afl/

• Consultants Judith Mole and Geoff Minsull have some fantastic free publications covering all aspects of elearning from the website: http://www.directlearn.co.uk/pub.htm . On a previous blog post I mentioned their podcast covering online conferences: http://he.rscwmsystems.org.uk/wordpress/?p=163

• HE in FE Teaching Resource Exchange:
  http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/hlst/ourwork/heinfe/teachingexchange

• My blog article written in Jan 2008 outlining the Academy HEinFE support. http://he.rscwmsystems.org.uk/wordpress/?p=160

• Transforming learning and assessment , the outcomes of two JISC funded projects TESEP & REAP. Both are excellent exemplars or how to implement anf manage ILT, i.e change the pedagogy, then find an IT solution that fits the bill: http://he.rscwmsystems.org.uk/wordpress/?p=50 , and http://www2.napier.ac.uk/transform/ , http://www.reap.ac.uk/

• The University of Nottingham have some excellent short video clips covering best teaching practice: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/teaching/resources/

• Kidderminster College deserve a note for their management of applications and development of a 3rd party IT support business model for local Colleges. They provide support and back up for Moodle and will help with access management issues. They have even managed to fit Moode on a portable pen drive: http://he.rscwmsystems.org.uk/wordpress/?p=174

• My bookmarks http://del.icio.us/deliboy/ ……. Has masses of links covering all things elearning, there will be many exemplars of best practice and case studies I’ve booked marked.