Two e-Learning Focus Groups at EFC

Two focus groups have been set up and have met to drive technology holistic change at EFC. They are: the ILT Curriculum Group - to improve the support to, and delivery of the curriculum through ILT to increase learner access to blended learning opportunities; the e-Maturity Group - to improve EFC’s strategic deployment of technology for the benefit of our staff and learners.
Our full eMaturity review using Becta's Generator Tool is 71% complete and our next meeting will take place the second week in January when the full review will be published.

E-Learning is moving forward at EFC!

If you would like to join one of these groups please contact Vikki Liogier

MoLeNET Project

EFC has been successful in securing funding following the submission of the college’s bid to MoLeNET/LSN. Our bid was selected from over 100 bids interviewed. The successful funding will enable EFC to introduce mobile technologies as a pedagogical tool to teach and learn while empowering students, as e-Mentors, to support staff and peers to disseminate knowledge and skills.

The project is essentially focussing on student engagement through an anti-discrimination project and 8 eMentors have been appointed, trained and delivered a very successful first staff training on Friday 13 December. Melona Headley and Gina Binazir are currently recruiting respectively Equality & Diversity champions and Student Voice Champions.

All project participants have been consulted so that chosen mobile devices are suitable to individual and project outcomes needs.

The Art and Design National Certificate students launched the project with a branding brainstorming session and came up with a number of names for the project. They were then put to the vote where there were two clear winners. D2 (Discrimination Disarmed, Don’t Discriminate or D Squared) and MAD Heroes (Mobile Anti-Discrimination Heroes). We have created a survey on Survey Monkey to ask all the project participants to vote on their preferred branding name.

Procurement Phase 1 was completed prior to Xmas as planned and so far 268 devices have been purchased.

The ILT and AV teams were extremely busy with only 1 week to configure and tag all the devices. THANK YOU!!! Handover took place on the 18th and 19th December. The participants were eager and excited to finally receive the devices. The handover went smoothly as participants were forwarded forms to be completed prior to the day. Each device was also pre-allocated to individuals. Each group of participants was scheduled to collect at a given time.

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Our MoLeNET mentor Lillian Soon and Carol Savill-Smith from LSN visited EFC and met with most staff participants. Lillian also delivered a very stimulating Web 2.0 two hour training session. Training seminars for Lead Researchers were attended and so were 3 other events organised by MoLeNET.

A wiki has been created as a communication channel between the staff participants. A consortium meeting is set up monthly, while the project manager and lead researchers are meeting weekly.

A project official launch date has been set for January 15th 2010.

If you would like to be or recommend one of your students as:

1. an eMentor , please contact Vikki Liogier.
2. an E&D Champion please contact Melona Headley
3. a Voice Champion please contact Gina Binazir

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