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What’s stopping you?. BARRIERS TO MOVING E-LEARNING FORWARD Andrew Hill January 2005. what we’d like to achieve. Aims of this session: Group members to consider published ‘barriers’ to progress and the extent to which they apply nationally and within their own institution - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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What’s stopping you?What’s stopping you?
BARRIERS TO MOVING E-LEARNING FORWARD
Andrew HillJanuary 2005
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what we’d like to achievewhat we’d like to achieve
Aims of this session: Group members to consider published ‘barriers’ to progress and the extent to which they apply nationally and within their own institution
Intended outcome: A summary of responses to the pertinence of these ‘barriers’ nationally and at institutional level and a comparison with trends in research to date.
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outline of previous discussionoutline of previous discussion
external and internal drivers good practice standards barriers the power of Inspection practising what we preach
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activity . . .
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‘‘Barriers’Barriers’
Educational leaders not yet fully engaged
Teachers and researchers need more time to explore new forms of pedagogy
Teachers and researchers need more support to implement e-learning
Too little training for staff to adopt or develop e-learning
Too few rewards for staff developing e-learning
Too little cross-sector support for learners school-fe-he
More co-ordination needed between learning support network partners
More collaboration within sector fe-fe
Under-developed digital teaching and learning resources market
E-learning software insufficiently shareable - better standards required
E-learning software too expensive - more sector cost-only work required
Colleges have made too little progress in closing ICT skills gap
Resistance to e-learning strategy by practitioners
Resistance to e-learning strategy by managers
Insufficient resources or expertise in use of equipment
Equipment is unreliable or presents problems and staff lack confidence in use
Limited access to ICT equipment
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today’s group datatoday’s group data
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Eastern region responsesEastern region responses
what are the barriers to implementing e-learning?
-80% -60% -40% -20% 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
More collaboration between colleges
DES partners co-ordination
Commercial software costs
Access to ICT equipment
Staff need more time to explore
No incentive to develop
Leaders not yet engaged
Staff need more time to implement
Expertise in use of equipment
ICT skills gap
Reliability of equipment
Software standards / sharability
School-FE-HE collaboration
Insufficient training for staff
Industry-education collaboration
Resistance: managers
Resistance: practitioners
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practising what we preachpractising what we preach
attend e-learning events and forums
get inspired use the web or intranet
to communicate, store files and share data
update ICT training in latest techniques (with secretary)
involve students in planning developments
find out where your staff, each department and the institution as a whole stand in terms of meeting e-l standards
make a visual difference - communications, presentations and desktops
put e-learning on every agenda
get colleagues in to show what they find works well elsewhere
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