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From: Use of the Internet to support curriculum activity in FE colleges
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Subject: [UK-COLLEGES] New FE Exemplars set to inspire the use of online
resources

*** New FE Exemplars set to inspire the use of online resources ***

Dear Colleagues

JISC has commissioned a series of five exemplars which demonstrate how
FE
practitioners can use content found in online resources to support their
teaching. The FE Exemplars cover a wide range of scenarios including how
a
practitioner might use film to support GCSE History students studying
the
Vietnam War; how text from InfoTrac can be used to create tasks for home
based study for the BTEC National Beauty Therapy Science; how
practitioners
can use an image from the Education Image Gallery as the focus for a
discussion activity about the Golden Jubilee for Level 1 Literacy
students.

There are five Exemplars covering the following subjects:

History 
Leisure 
Hairdressing 
Business 
Skills for Life 

All the exemplars are all available online at: www.jisc.ac.uk/exemplars.
Please note that you will need to be using a computer on campus (i.e.
via an
ac.uk domain) in order to access them online. 

The Exemplars are designed to demonstrate and inspire the use of online
resources. They show how practitioners can use text and images from
these
resources to support classroom learning and home based study to meet the
core syllabus. The exemplars provide walkthroughs for the scenarios
which
relate to specific qualifications.

Each Exemplar can also be obtained on individual CD's or all five
Exemplars
are available on one CD. You can order the CD's by completing the online
order form, which can be found at www.jisc.ac.uk/exemplars. 

JISC and the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) are partnering
in a
study to evaluate the effectiveness and the value of the exemplars in
guiding the FE practitioner on how to use and embed online resources in
their teaching. The study will explore how the exemplars have been used
in
teaching by champions of e-learning and how the exemplars have guided
practitioners that are new to using online resources in the adoption of
e-learning practices. Practitioners in English Colleges will be
commissioned
to create case studies of how they have used the exemplars. If you are
interested in getting involved in this study please contact us at:
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The JISC Collections Team would be very grateful for your help in
raising
awareness of the Exemplars amongst your colleagues at your College and
directing those that are interested to our online order form.  

Yours sincerely

Brian Mitchell
JISC Collections Promotion Manager

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