Hayley Matthews

VLE/MLEVLE/MLEA Vision of Learning Environments for C21 A Vision of Learning Environments for C21 StudentsStudents

‘The terrifying thing about this technology is what it tells us about

the rate at which children learn.”Jenny Noel-Storr

Redhill Primary School, Shropshire

Vision StatementVision Statement

Developing a Virtual Learning Environment / Managed Learning Environment in order to create a Vertical Learning Environment that facilitates a new way of teaching and

lifelong-learning for all.

C o m m un ity M e m b e rs

S p e cia l S ch o o ls

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P rim a ry/Jn r S ch o o ls

S e con d a ry S ch o o ls P u p il R e fe rra l U n its

B la ckpo o l S ix th Fo rm C o lle ge

B la ckp o o l & the F yld e C o lle ge

L a n ca ste r U n ive rs ity

A ssoc ia tes

‘Enhancing the quality of teaching and

learning is the key driver, identified by

almost every institution for MLE development.’

JISC MLE Study Report 2003

VLE: Virtual Learning VLE: Virtual Learning EnvironmentEnvironment

E-Learning tools...

Email, websites, chat, forums, video, audio, IPTV, video-conferencing, assessment engines, projectors, interactive whiteboards, software, modelling, simulation, multimedia, powerpoint, on-line bulletin boards, discussion, world-wide resources

CMC – Computer Mediated Communication

CAA – Computer Aided Assessment

CAL – Computer Aided Learning

Gigabyte Infrastructure to Gb Desktops = Real Time

Technologies

…where it’s

MLE: Managed Learning MLE: Managed Learning EnvironmentEnvironment

MLE-Adminstration tools...

Course registration, personal learning profile, student loans, council tax & housing benefits, electoral registration, enrolment, accreditation, student union facilities, pastoral support, local information, housing, non-curricular support structures…

Seamless Integration with reporting & data collation tools - MIS

with on-line assessment engines

with the VLE

with BBC – One Stop Shop

with external agencies – NWLG, Student Loans

…where it’s all

teaching & learning citizenship...

From a Student’s Perspective…From a Student’s Perspective…

The VLE/MLE is a Learner-centred approach to education removing [perceived] barriers to learning:

• Access

• Pace / Flexibility

• Shared environment

• Peer to peer collaboration

From a Student’s Perspective…From a Student’s Perspective…

The VLE/MLE is a Learner-centred approach to education removing [perceived] barriers to learning:

• World-wide / Multi-institutional Resource

Database

• Greater opportunities for those with physical,

cultural, medical, educational, social or

other perceived barriers to learning• Decreased dependence upon Minimum Requirements for

enrolment

From a Student’s Perspective…From a Student’s Perspective…

‘The Cast of Players in a student’s learning experiences has increased dramatically. Convergent technologies now

allow experts, peers and collaborators to join the student’s world, enriching learning experiences.’

Bernard Holkner Monash University, Melbourne

Physical Environment

‘Cast of Players’

Hardware

Software

It is not about automating the current educational It is not about automating the current educational content but about presenting it in a new and effective content but about presenting it in a new and effective way:way:

Maths Can be Interesting!

Create Your Own Atom

These tools and their skill sets are cross-curricular, cross-institutional and empowering...

…auditory, kinaesthetic, visual

……the limits of my world the limits of my world are the limits of my imagination… are the limits of my imagination…

5 year old Katie who is going to be an astronaut

8 year old Jordan who is the ‘next Stephen Spielberg’

12 year old Tom who wants to be ‘the richest man in the world’

15 year old Jane who wants to be a beauty therapist

47 year old Janice who has decided that it is time to study for a degree but she has two teenage children and a part-time job Getting learners to adopt new approaches and integrate

them into their learning experience requires that staff first do the same.

This involves a cultural change…

……changing a culture…changing a culture…

a new way of learning…

The way learners learn:

Motivation

Inspiration

Self Pacing

Responsibility

…learning as continuous research rather than a body of facts…

The way teachers teach:

Facilitator

Guide

Empowering

Encouraging

Relationship

Student TeacherInteraction

without limitations…

……changing a culture…changing a culture…

a new way of learning…

CurriculumStaffingLearning to LearnCross-sector interoperability:Widening participation to HE14-19s

…supporting pupils and students travelling across the wider education landscape…

…awarding bodies, learner organisations, employers…

P re -S ch o o l

L a n ca ste r U n ive ris ty

Vision to Reality….Vision to Reality….The vision must be followed by the venture.It is not enough to stare up the steps. We must step up the stairs. Carl Jung

• Stage One: Establish VLE/MLE as a quality product/service: success is proportional

1. Source

2. Resource

3. Champions

Vision to Reality….Vision to Reality….

• Stage Two: Replacing the paper base

1. Simulation

2. Investigation

3. Experimentation

• Learner Tracking and Monitoring

• ‘Specialist’ Delivery Teams

• Including / training further staff

• Ensuring Learner Support

• Teaching becoming less hungry of human resource

…teams should work across the educational spectrum…. ...sharing good practice, resources and encouraging one another...

Vision to Reality….Vision to Reality….

• Stage Three: All curricula subscribing to common areas

1. Maximise resources

2. Flexibility

3. Integrity of Information

4. Innovation

…closing the gap between rhetoric and reality…

Vision to Reality….Vision to Reality….

• Stage Four:

• Evaluation and continuing development

• Sustainability of learning resources

…a new openness…the sharing of intellectual property…

……the ‘Top-Down’ Approach?the ‘Top-Down’ Approach?

If any of these basic elements – identity of interest, clarity of vision, honesty of intent, and oneness of

purpose, are lacking, all pleas for solidarity, cohesion, and all other efforts to achieve them, will

be barren of results.

……the ‘Cascade’ Approach…the ‘Cascade’ Approach…

Cascade - A waterfall or a series of small waterfalls over steep rocks.

1. A succession of stages, processes, operations, or units.

2. Electronics. A series of components or networks, the output of each of which serves as the input for the next.

3. A chemical or physiological process that occurs in successive stages, each of which is dependent on the preceding one, and often producing a cumulative effect.

……how?how?

‘Technology is driving the future. The steering is up to us.’

Leadership Strategy:• Appreciation of current culture• Building Relationships• Creating a Desire for Change• Envision them! (Energise)• Knowledge and Empowerment • Contagious Enthusiasm• Supported Action • Coherent Response• Positive Results – CHANGE!

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision.The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision.

Our Vision is an inclusive C21 Learning EnvironmentOur Vision is an inclusive C21 Learning Environment