Alison
Alison
Stewart
Learning and Development Manager (Academic Practice)
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Nottingham Trent University
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Dear
Colleagues
Your attention and
action please!
This week we have
mailed out to all HEIs (the FE dissemination will follow shortly) our new Senior
Manager Briefing resulting from 18 months’ research under the Technology Change
for Inclusion project: “12 Steps towards Embedding Inclusive Practice with
Technology as a Whole Institution Culture”. (Thanks again to all
of you who contributed to the research).
A hard copy of this
Briefing has been sent to the PVC (Academic) or equivalent, along with four
further hard copies to be given to the Heads of Staff Development, Learning
Technology, IT/Networks and Disability/Student Support (or equivalents). The
reasoning behind this madness is that one of the key findings from the research,
and therefore one of the 12 Steps in the Briefing, is that the most successfully
inclusive use of technology occurs where the PVC leads key collaborations
between these four roles.
I am alerting
members of the SEDA list because I am certain that in many institutions these
Briefings will not successfully move from the PVC’s desk to the desks of the
Heads of Staff Development and other key colleagues listed above without
prompting – please do pass this email onto your Head of Staff Development if
this is not you! Please could I prevail upon you to contact your PVC within the
next week or so, to ask for your copy of the Briefing and thereby encourage the
key collaborations from your end? Of course I will happily email you a copy of
the Briefing upon request, but the point of the exercise is to draw this issue
to the attention of the PVC, so if you could try that route first and come back
to me if you fail to acquire your copy, that would be
ideal.
For those of you in
Scotland the official launch of the Briefing takes place Wednesday
27th May at e-Inclusion Scotland at Glasgow Caledonian
University.
Many thanks in
advance for pursuing this for me – and if you successfully obtain your copy of
the Briefing for working on the 12 Steps within! Of course I am always willing
to advise further on any activities you undertake in pursuit of the aims of the
Briefing, and would be grateful for any feedback.
Best
regards
Simon
Dr
Simon Ball
Senior
Advisor
JISC
TechDis Service
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and technology.
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