1. The FE Perspective ………….. south of the border Clive Church Newark and Sherwood College

2. The Learning and Skills Council n Birth: April 2001 n Responsible for funding, quality control and co- ordination of all (bar HE) post 16 education (including school VIth forms from April 2002) –FE colleges –prisons –UFI/ Learndirect –Local authority (adult ed/ libraries) –private providers.

3. The LSC Priorities n 16 -19 n Inclusive Learning –Lifelong Learning –Widening Participation –Basic Numeracy and Literacy Disaffected and Disengaged Controlled Curriculum via QCA

4. English FE n Over 400 Colleges –General –Agricultural –VIth form n Range of partnerships with HE n Little research but lots of good practice only local competition

5. Sector Organisations All part of NLN (National Learning Network) Funding from LSC, DFES, JISC n Becta (Member of IMS) –Schools, FE and community remit –evaluation and support (govt agency) –Metadata (Community and FE Extensions) n NILTA –Practitioner Support, disseminating good practice n LSDA/ Feda (Member of IMS) –research –skills development but much overlap

6. Initiatives n UFI/ Learndirect (Fretwell Downing, Easal) n VLE purchase (< £20000 by June 2002) n Champions n Internal ICT material development n Infrastructure (2 meg links) with support from JISC funded ‘Regional Support Centres’ n NLN Funded Online Content (£8m) n MLE Interoperability Projects n Teacher Training Standards

7. MLE Interoperability Projects (x13) n Advise Colleges on MLE Purchase n April - December 2001 n FE led with commercial partners –LIP/ Enterprise –Content Management –QTI –Content Packaging –Metadata n Foundation of 01/01 Projects

8. Context of Standards Assessment Content Management VLE MIS & Legacy Systems NLN/ Publishers NGfL/ CGfL College DNER The World Learning Flow/ Organisation

9. Repository opening screen

10. Repository Content screen

11. Education Metadata screen

12. Repository Path screen

13. CETIS| FE Special Interest Group n Based at Newark and Sherwood College n Promote Interoperability Standards n Disseminate FE consensus views n Promote cross sectoral sharing of tools and content. n Incubator (where necessary) for other special interest groups

14. Contacts Clive Churchcchurch@newark.ac.uk Steve Jeyessjeyes@newark.ac.uk