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Workshop: Embedding Learning Technology Strategically - a workshop 
for developers and decision makers
Venue: Institute for Learning and Teaching, York, 
Date: Tuesday 30 May, 2000
Time: 10:00-16:00
Organised by TLTP3 EFFECTS and TALENT Projects

Participant numbers will be limited to 30 to facilitate group 
interaction and learning.
Registration details below

Institutional strategies 
By now all HEFCE-funded Universities have in place a learning and 
teaching strategy to meet the requirements of the new Teaching 
Quality Enhancement Fund. As part of this new agenda, many 
institutions are seeking to promote more effective use of C&IT for 
learning and teaching. In many cases, however, the strategy is an 
'emergent' document, and institutions across the sector are 
struggling to translate well-meaning policies into actual outcomes. 

Embedding learning technologies
The TLTP3 EFFECTS project is working with institutions to evolve 
their own professional development programmes which support and 
recognise staff who are embedding C&IT into student learning. 
However, the project has always been concerned to examine the impact 
of professional development programmes at institutional level: 
· What institutional factors are most crucial to the success of 
learning technology developments?
· How can learning technology expertise be cascaded from early 
adopters to an early majority of academic staff?
· What impact do scholarly rewards have on staff motivation to embed 
C&IT?
· How can student needs analysis and pedagogical evaluation - carried 
out at the programme level - be harnessed to inform institutional 
learning and teaching strategy? 

As a result of our evaluation work at the EFFECTS consortium 
institutions, through collaboration with the TALENT project and 
through consultation with the academic community at workshops and 
conference sessions, the EFFECTS project has identified key 
institutional issues which impact on how effectively learning 
technologies are embedded into the curriculum. This led us to develop 
an audit tool and institutional guidelines to facilitate the process 
of institutional change. 

Participants
The workshops are aimed at developers with a strategic role and 
decision makers looking for new ways to encourage the take-up of 
learning technology. Participant numbers will be limited to 30 to 
facilitate group interaction and learning. 

Aims
Participants at this workshop will be able to: 
· learn about the design of different institutional programmes for 
embedding C&IT into learning and teaching (including sample materials 
and portfolios); 
· learn about the early impacts of EFFECTS programmes at their 
respective institutions;
· explore the EFFECTS guidelines for institutions and the TALENT and 
EFFECTS institutional audit tools
· question representatives from the  EFFECTS consortium and from the 
TLTP TALENT project which is also working to encourage institutional 
change; 
 share ideas with other developers and decision makers; 
· discuss the frameworks presented in the context of their own 
institutional learning and teaching strategy.

Programme
10:00 Coffee and registration 
This will be an opportunity to look at posters and sample materials
from EFFECTS courses running at a number of institutions.
10.45 Introduction and brief update on the EFFECTS project 
11:15 Group exercise: who we are and where we come from An 
opportunity to share current issues in embedding learning 
technologies and in the development of institutional learning 
technology strategies. 
11:45 Adopting and adapting EFFECTS
Representatives from three institutions will discuss the experience 
of developing programmes within the EFFECTS framework. The focus will 
be on adapting to current institutional priorities and designing for 
maximum impact on institutional culture. 
13:00 Buffet lunch
There will also be opportunities to explore audit tools developed to 
help you analyse the situation at your institution and identify 
productive ways forward. 
13:45 Tools for institutional change 
The TALENT project will introduce their audit tool and methodology 
for working with senior managers at institutions. The EFFECTS project 
will introduce their Guidelines for partner institutions, an Audit 
Tool and some lessons learned from evaluating EFFECTS programmes in 
their first year.
14:45 Groupwork: learning and teaching strategies 
You will be invited to explore the relevance of the framework and 
tools to your own institutional learning and teaching strategy 15:30 
Report back and discussion
16:00 Tea and departures Materials Participants will be provided with 
copies of the EFFECTS Generic Learning Outcomes, Guidelines for 
Collaborating Institutions and Institutional Audit Tool. It will also 
be possible to collect information packs from existing institutional 
programmes including information such as course handbooks, mapping 
documents, examples of workshop materials and handouts. 

Registration 
To register please complete and return the form below to 
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Name:

Institution:

Address:

Email:

Any special dietary requirements:

For further information

EFFECTS Project see web site http://sh.plym.ac.uk/eds/effects/ 
or contact Paul Bailey or Helen Beetham at the University of Plymouth
Tel: +44 (0)1752 232346 Email: [log in to unmask] or
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TALENT Project see web site http://www.le.ac.uk/TALENT/ or contact 
Phil Poole at TITLE Unit, Canterbury Christ Church University 
College, North Holmes Road, Canterbury CT1 1QU Tel: +44 (0)1227 
782247 Email: [log in to unmask]

Paul Bailey
Educational Development Services
Suite 321
Babbage Building
University of Plymouth
Drake Circus
Plymouth PL4 8AA
U.K.

Tel: +44 (0)1752 232346
Fax: +44 (0)1752 232348
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