JISC Services to Support Quality/Equality Practice

www.jiscadvance.ac.uk/about-us/services

• JISC Digital Media• JISC infoNet• JISC Netskills• JISC Procureweb• JISCMail

• JISC Techdis• JISC Legal• JISC Regional Support

Centres (RSCs)

Accessibility Essentialswww.jisctechdis.ac.uk/accessibilityessentials

CALM Initiative case study @ Glasgow Met (now City of Glasgow College)

http://bit.ly/calm_glasgowmet

ITQ in Accessible IT PracticeWhy?

• Many staff struggle to meet the diverse needs of their learners. Teaching may take place in so many different locations and venues with different IT setups.

• This new ITQ for Accessible IT Practice focuses on staff being better equipped to meet learner needs by:

– Making better use of existing resources and materials available from JISC Techdis.

– Exploring how to use the free, portable applications to support learner needs.

– Having a better understanding of how to develop engaging, accessible learning resources.

ITQ in Accessible IT Practice• Help organisations deliver more for less.• Help staff recognise how learners benefit from

technology.• Increase the skills of front line staff in inclusive

teaching and learning.• The programme, which can also lead to City &

Guilds ITQ accreditation, provides an ideal platform for raising awareness of inclusion issues at the same time as developing the skills to create more inclusive teaching and learning environments http://jisctechdis.ac.uk/ITQ.

• Link to flier – http://tinyurl.com/itqflyer

Xerte

• With large organisations needing to demonstrate compliance with the Disability Equality Duty, Xerte Online Toolkits are an useful and cost effective way of combining inclusion needs with staff development in high quality content creation.

• http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/toolkits/play_560

Xerte

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/toolkits/play_560

Xerte Friday Online Sessions• So far this year:

– Numeracy;– Statistics;– Literacy;– Psychology and

Sociology;– Health and Social Care.

• Coming up:– June - Hair and Beauty;– September - Biology /

Life Sciences / Agriculture;

– October - Earth Sciences;– November - Modern

languages.

12 steps towards Embedding Inclusive Practice with Technology as a Whole Institution Culture in

HEA series of interviews were held with senior staff in UK HEi’s to elicit good practice in embedding inclusive practice with technology as a whole institution culture.

The good (and poor) practice uncovered has led directly to the formulation of the 12 Steps highlighted in this Briefing.

www.jisctechdis.ac.uk/TCI

JISC Techdis SMT Briefings• Briefing 1 - e-Learning as an Accessibility Investment• Briefing 2 - Accessibility in the Mainstream: Roles and

responsibilities• Briefing 3 - Transition Arrangements - Partners, Processes and

Funding Issues• Briefing 4 - Accessible Marketing and Admissions: Improving

Business and Reducing Risk• Briefing 5 - From Good Intention to Good Practice: Making the

Disability Equality Duty Meaningful

http://bit.ly/SMTBriefings

Merely avoiding discrimination is no longer an option. The emphasis of this document is on the potential impact of legislation on accessibility and inclusion and how there are real benefits to be gained in adopting inclusive institutional practice.

You do the Maths! http://www.jisctechdis.ac.uk/sed• Where tutors put lecture notes online, the need for note takers for

disabled students is reduced.• Where free and open source assistive technologies are used, more

learners can have greater support with no licence cost• Where libraries subscribe to accessible eBook platforms the cost of

scanning books for disabled learners is slashed.

Case Studies

• Equalities Data Tool @Cumbernauld Collegehttp://bit.ly/cumbernauld_equalities

• CALM Project @ Glasgow Metropolitan College (now CGC)http://bit.ly/calm_glasgowmet

Case Studies

• Embedding the Use of Free Technologies across South Lanarkshire Collegehttp://bit.ly/SLCinclusion

• Student use of Free Technologies @ Coatbridge College http://bit.ly/coatbridge

eSafety• ‘e-Safety and e-Learning’ Moodle Course

http://bit.ly/jmkBUi andhttp://bit.ly/scotlandswesafety (name: guest access/password: password)

• JISC Legal e-Safety Serieshttp://www.jisclegal.ac.uk/Themes/eSafety.aspx