1 Education Day Structure & Strategy Omar K. Matar Chair of e-LSC Tuesday 20 April

Outline Why ELSC membership Terms of reference Structure Strategy and implementation Education Day: examples

Why The key drivers for e-learning are the evolving nature of students and their needs staff, their skills and roles technology and its use in education HE institutions competition

Membership Prof. Omar K. Matar (Chem. Eng., Chair) Mr. Paul Allatt (ICT) Dr. Steven Cook (Life Sciences) Prof. Susan Eisenbach (Computing) Ms. Ruth Harrison (Library) Mr. David Lefevre (Business School) Prof. Alan Spivey (Chemistry) Dr. Maria Toro-Troconis (Medicine) Mr. Jonathan Silver (Student Rep.)

Terms of Reference To advise the Strategic Education Committee (SEC) on the College’s current use of educational technologies in learning, teaching and assessment. To advise the SEC on recent trends and forthcoming developments in the use of technology within education. To advise the SEC on the College’s strategic priorities in the planning, implementation and evaluation/research of educational technology, and administration thereof, including implications for internal funding, and the co-ordination or management of future developments. To prioritise and approve College bids for the external funding of educational technology initiatives, for instance, bids for JISC funding, as appropriate. To allocate funding for College-wide e-Learning technology initiatives.

Organisational structure

1.To coordinate, support and promote e-learning activity across the College to further the aims of the College’s teaching and learning strategy: To promote a blended approach to teaching and learning which incorporates use of e-learning into traditional teaching and learning methodsTo promote a blended approach to teaching and learning which incorporates use of e-learning into traditional teaching and learning methods To promote innovation and creativity in the use of technology in teaching and learningTo promote innovation and creativity in the use of technology in teaching and learning To promote the use of e-learning to enhance the quality, efficiency and flexibility of assessment and feedbackTo promote the use of e-learning to enhance the quality, efficiency and flexibility of assessment and feedback To ensure adequate capacity/capability of e-learning provision and associated support across the CollegeTo ensure adequate capacity/capability of e-learning provision and associated support across the College To encourage departments to develop ‘local’ strategies that mesh with the ELSC and College strategiesTo encourage departments to develop ‘local’ strategies that mesh with the ELSC and College strategies To work with those areas of the College other than academic departments, eg SPD, AHSC, to encourage the use of E-learning tools where appropriate 2. To promote Imperial College as a leader in worldwide education: To encourage the development of an infrastructure to allow publication of learning materials, where appropriate, to a worldwide audience through the use of tools such as Open Courseware and iTunes-UTo encourage the development of an infrastructure to allow publication of learning materials, where appropriate, to a worldwide audience through the use of tools such as Open Courseware and iTunes-U Strategy

Implementation Secure internal and external funding for core e-learning activities Continue to develop the role of Learning Technologists (LTs) Continue to recruit LTs as appropriate Ensure that the VLE remains up-to-date and suited to the strategic needs of the College by carrying out regular reviews

Implementation Encourage departments to support e-learning and LTs Encourage departments to develop an appropriate infrastructure for e-learning integration in teaching and learning Encourage departments to integrate LTs into their teaching committees as appropriate

Implementation Encourage LTs and academics to remain abreast of developments in e-learning via attendance of conferences, seminars, workshops Incentivise and reward LTs and academics for the development of creative and novel e-learning tools Provide advice on how to explore novel technologies that support e-learning

Implementation Provide guidelines for and support the use of e-learning tools for formative and summative assessments Support the design of courses (both blended and fully on-line) taking into account student support, special needs and accessibility, QAA codes Raise student awareness of support provided by the VLE (for assessment, coursework submission, discussion groups etc) Enhance student skill set in e-learning techniques

Implementation Resolve issues related to IP Set up framework (and associated support network) for development of open courseware e-learning tools: from content creation to publishing Monitor the development of open courseware tools in other HE institutions world-wide

Implementation Ensure penetration of e-learning into departments Create discussion forums for academics and LTs, and disseminate best-practice across the College Keep strategy under constant review

Examples of what’s on offer today Workshop: 11.15: A journey from PowerPoint to the Virtual Learning Environment

Examples of what’s on offer today Workshop: 15.00: Content Creation: Creating reusable digital course content