Laying the foundations for college-wide blended learning

Laying the foundations for
college-wide blended learning
Stephen Kennedy,TEL Manager, Belfast Metropolitan College

If at first you don’t succeed…
16/06/2017 Laying the foundations for college-wide blended learning 3

VLE Project Plan - Research (Aug 12)
‘The scope of this project will be to implement the newVLE up to a point
where the oldVLE can be decommissioned and the newVLE is the primary
e-learning delivery tool of the College’.

Digital Strategy Steering Group - Research (Feb16)
‘Students indicated that they felt the college could be staged at First Steps
in the majority of all [benchmark] principles’.

A Strategic approach
» ‘Student Engagement with
Technology’
» Jisc inspired research ‘perception of
BMC’s journey on the ‘digital pathway’
› Face-to-face student focus groups
› Online survey
› Positive and negative experiences
captured
» ‘…a rich source of information from the
student perspective that can be used to
establish where we are on our journey’
Digital Strategy Steering Group -
Research (Feb16)

TEL Strategy - Reboot

TEL Strategy – A New Approach
Step 1) Establish the Business Need
» The LMS Example
› What do Learners want?
› What doTeachers want from LMS?
› What do Employers want?
› What does 'Assessment of Provision' require?
› What does Management require?
› What does ETI and QAA Inspectorates require?
› What does BMC Student Services require?
› What do BMC IT Support Services require?
Identification of
the College’s
need forTel
including a
review of the
competitive
landscape and
engagement
with College
staff, learners
and wider
stakeholder
groups

Evidence how things currently stand
» From the students perspective
› Research: ‘Student Engagement with DigitalTechnology’ (Feb16)
» From theTeaching and Support Staff perspective
› InterimTel Manager’s benchmarking per school (Feb16-July16)
› SelfAssessment Reports and Whole College Quality Improvement Plans
» From 3rd party perspectives
› ETI Reports (Jan 2010, follow-up May 2011), QAA Reports (Mar 2014)

Step 1) Establish the Business Need
Identification of
the College’s
need forTel
including a
review of the
competitive
landscape and
engagement
with College
staff, learners
and wider
stakeholder
groups

Step 2) Assess Resources and Capabilities
Assessment (audit) of
the College’s capabilities
and resources, including:
» Equipment
» Processes
» Environment
» Management
» People
» Material
(Note: Involves
benchmarking the
current use / application
of existingVLE)

Step 3) Develop aVision forTEL
College’s vision forTEL
based on:
» Meeting stakeholder needs
» Addressing “Root-Cause”
issues
» Realising best practice
» Utilising our resources and
capabilities
» Acquiring additional
resources only when doing
so drives one of three
benefits:
» Efficiency, enhancement or
transformation

» Evaluation of Staff and Student DigitalCapabilities
› Resource BasedView (RBV) Analysis: mapping digital
expertise across different staff roles within a team,
department, or the organisation as a whole, identifying
gaps and
› Recognising where digital expertise adds value and
recommending alignment of resources and capabilities
to exploit apparent opportunities and address existing
weaknesses
» Evaluation of ‘Blended Learning’ Courses
› Exemplary Course Rubric to embedTEL best practice in:
– Course Design / Interaction and Collaboration
/Assessment /Learner Support
Step 4) Exploit Resources and Capabilities
Explore the potential to
exploit particular College
resources and capabilities;
thus:
» Building on identified
internal strengths and
capabilities
» Aligning resources and
capabilities to exploit
apparent opportunities
within the market place
» Addressing evident gaps in
existing resources and/or
capabilities

› Based on an established framework of ‘How to do Blend Leaning’
thus:
capabilities
capabilities

– Course Design / Interaction and Collaboration /Assessment
/Learner Support
thus:
capabilities
capabilities

– Course Design / Interaction and Collabration /Assessment
/Learner Support
thus:
capabilities
capabilities

› ‘Blended Learning’ – Applying course unit(s) analysis
thus:
capabilities
capabilities

» TELTraining - Capabilities
thus:
capabilities
capabilities

» Procure and onboard a new LMS
» Work with Curriculum colleagues, across all schools, to
embedTEL best practice
» Establish processes and controls for the production of
Blended Learning course content
Step 5) Implementation Plan and Road Map
Implementation plan based
on utilising evident strengths
within BMC’s resources and
capabilities.
Delivery managed via Project
Management methods.
Road Map detailing
programme of activity.
Strategic integration –
ensuring the plan is
implemented through
appropriate strategic HR
management policies and
practices

What needs to be in place to ensure ‘Blended Learning’ success?
» Project managed using a recognised project management method (eg Agile; Scrum;
Prince 2; PMI; PMBOK; Kanban)
» Project managed by an experience, qualified, Project Manager capable of managing
variables such as: Costs;Timescales;Quality; Scope; Risk and Benefits
» Subject to BMC internal audit ‘controls ‘ testing:
› Testing whether the solution is, over time, being applied as envisaged
(or is remedial action required?)
» An agreed [framework] approach to doing ‘Blended Learning’ (with exemplar rubric)
» Linking BMC resources and capabilities
› Addressing evident gaps in existing resources and/or capabilities (eg CfETEL Hub training)
» Adopt Process Improvement methods
› Such as Six Sigma DMAIC steps; applying Kaizen techniques (Plan, Do, Check, Act)
» Success judged on TEL Framework principals – eg Efficiency; Enhancement and
Transformation

Questions?

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Stephen Kennedy
Technology Enhanced Learning Manager
Belfast Metropolitan College
skennedy@belfastmet.ac.uk

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