Project Completion and Wrap-up Meeting

The TEL SIP carried out at Swansea Metropolitan in partnership with Jisc Advance/Jisc RSC Wales has now completed its work. A final wrap-up meeting was held yesterday with Pete Scott, Head of Service for Jisc RSC Wales, and Lis Parcell, Senior e-Learning Advisor (HE). The meeting reviewed the outcomes of the project, particularly the briefing reports on current TEL innovations, and agreed that they made a useful contribution to the debate about future TEL developments both for the institution and for the sector generally. In this regard, the reports were not only disseminated within the institution, but were made available more widely through the project blog and it was hoped that this broader sharing of the project outcomes would increase the value of the SIP project. The meeting considered in detail a range of issues that the project had explored and agreed that the continuation of monitoring the influence of the internet, social media and personal technologies developments was essential for future educational planning. A concluding message from the SIP project was that Jisc, as a body central to the promotion of innovative technology in education in the UK, was a valuable asset for all institutions. Further to that, RSC Wales, as with all the other regional support centres, provided focussed professional TEL support, advice and access to resources in a very effective way.

Briefing Paper 3

This briefing paper on the use of social media and personal technologies in education is the last in the series for the SIP project. It provides a current picture of the use of such technologies and it can be seen that the whole area of development is very active at present and can be expected to change over the next 12 months and beyond. It emphasises the need to be horizon scanning at all times and building the information gathered into planning for the use of social media and personal technologies in the support of learners.

Sip tel innovation report 3 from Tony Toole

MOOC Briefing Paper

This second briefing paper for the TEL SIP project reviews the current MOOC landscape and concludes that they should be more accurately described as Massively Open Online Learning activities rather than as formal courses. It discusses the potential future of massive online learning and potential business models for institutions.

The report is shown below:

Sip tel innovation report 2 from Tony Toole

Sip tel innovation report 2: MOOCs from Tony Toole