Hello everyone,
Good to see this report has "hit the streets", in a manner of
speaking.
For those of you who don't know me, I'm the JISC Programme Manager for
the follow-on Interoperability Pilot projects in Scotland, Wales and
Northern Ireland (affectionately known as SWaNI). These project have
just started and details of each project and programme information is
available at http://www.jisc.ac.uk/mle/swani/ Not all project websites
are live yet.
I'm sure that the SWanI project staff would be delighted to hear from
anyone who was involved in the English projects and, if you would like
to be be put in touch, please just e-mail me and I'll add you to the
various project lists.
If anyone wishes further information about Swani - just let me know.
Regards
Dawne Hodkinson
JISC Programme Manager (SWaNI)
Kinross Learning Centre
15 Swansacre
KINROSS
KY13 8TE
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Getting in tune with 'MLE thinking' forms the central message of the
report, Managing the Future, produced from the findings of the JISC
MLE
Steering Group. Released in September 2002, the report provides broad
conclusions and recommendations from the MLESG on the successful
implementation of MLEs.
The use of an MLE is viewed in the report as valuable support for
Further
Education colleges described as 'juggling' the realities of increased
competition and heightened quality expectations at a time of reduced
funding in real terms. Colleges, needing to respond to a fast-changing
and
challenging environment, are recommended to adopt 'MLE thinking'. The
JISC
report defines this as 'a systematic view of how a number of IT
components,
such as a VLE or a Student Record System (SRS) might interact with
college
processes to support a more flexible learning environment'. Successful
implementation, the report stresses, cannot be achieved without an
underlying organisational culture change, involving the possible
re-organisation of the management systems within colleges.
To incorporate MLE thinking into a college, two hurdles are identified
to
be overcome: the first is a shift in culture, as staff will need to
work
together to bring new methods of teaching into action. The second
important
component is the full integration of the systems that underpin
learning.
Overcoming technical obstacles is recognised by the report as a '
major
undertaking' requiring close collaboration between colleges, agencies
and
suppliers. The JISC and the LSC are seen as playing an essential role
in
setting the framework for a coherent interoperability agenda to guide
and
advise those key players.
The recommendations are detailed and grouped according to the four
main
stakeholders involved in implementing managed learning environments in
Further Education: the colleges, the LSC, the JISC and vendors. The
recommendations can be found at the conclusion to the report, which can
be
downloaded from the JISC web site in pdf format, at:
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/pub02/man_future_mle.pdf
Geoff Minshull
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