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Learning and Teaching Experts Meeting 24 April 2012

Extending the learning environment

Paul Bailey

Programme Manager

Sheila MacNeill

JISC CETIS

How can WAGS (Widgets, apps and gadgets) and Mash-Ups allow you to

extend your learning environment?

Learning Environments Timeline: The JISC CETIS view Posted on April 16, 2012 http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/othervoices/2012/04/16/learning-environments-timeline-the-jisc-cetis-view/

JISC CETIS Briefing paper “Distributed Learning Environments” (Feb 2010) - set a vision

Distributed Learning Environments (July 2010 – Mar 2012)

– investigating how institutions can widen the functionality of their VLEs in an interoperable way

– Funded 8 projects

– http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/elearning/distributedvle.aspx

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Background

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Extending the Learning Environment

“It is important that colleges use all the resources and

assets available to them as effectively as possible,

including better use of virtual learning environments and the

opportunities they afford”

John Widdowson, Chair of the Mixed Economy Group of colleges

In development a series of supporting case studies (June 2012):

institutional transformation of learning environments

improving the student experience through better administrative information

User benefits of a portfolios widget integration with Blackboard

Integrating student marks within the learning environment

Cost effective integration of “minority tools”

Supporting Widgets for Inclusive Distributed Environments

Student Choice- Linking Google and Moodle

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/divle/dvlecasestudies.aspx

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Case Studies

http://widgets.open.ac.uk:8080/11/04/2023 | Slide 6

Sharing Solutions

http://devcsi.ukoln.ac.uk/upcoming-events/dev8ed/

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Supporting Developer

Ideas for engaging the teaching and learning community around the new approaches to learning environments

What Widgets, Apps and gadgets would you like to see in your institutional learning environment?

Webinar: The future of web applications, 9 May

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/events/2012/05webinarwebapplications.aspx

Contact:

Paul Bailey p.bailey@jisc.ac.uk

Sheila MacNeill s.macneill@strath.ac.uk11/04/2023 | Slide 8

Discussion

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