Making use of the Higher Education
Academy and JISC Intute: Health and
Life Sciences resources to support
education
Megan Quentin-Baxter (HEA MEDEV megan@medev),
Laurian Williamson (JISC Intute: H&LS
[email protected]), Ian Lindsay (Higher
Education Academy [email protected]) and Gillian
Brown (HEA MEDEV [email protected])
The Higher Education Academy and its 24 subject centres, especially
– Bioscience
– Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences (GEES)
– Medicine, Dentistry and Veterinary Medicine (MEDEV)
JISC Intute: Health and Life Sciences on behalf of JISC services and
JISC collections
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Introduction - Workshop
• The aim of this workshop is to introduce the Higher
Education Academy and JISC Intute: Health and Life
Sciences services which include resource to support
enhancing the student learning experience.
• Participants will be shown a range of services and
resources for use in teaching in land-based and
veterinary care professions, some examples of the
uptake of resources, and given an opportunity to
discuss adoption of these approaches in local contexts.
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The Higher Education Academy
• The Academy's mission is to help institutions, discipline
groups and all staff to provide the best possible
learning experience for their students
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Informing policy
Supporting institutions
Research and evaluation
Supporting learning
Professional development and recognition (including
fellowship of the Academy and the National Teaching
Fellowship Scheme)
– Disciplines and networks (including Subject Centres)
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Subject Centres Size and Operation
• Approximately 6 fte staff per centre
– Director, manager, education adviser/s, information officers,
clerical support
• Approximately 500K turnover per centre per year
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Subject based and themed activities (e.g. assessment)
Information filtering/interpretation and brokerage
Journals, newsletters and eBulletins
Websites: educational information & resources, news, etc.
Workshops, conferences, SIGs and other events
Stakeholder engagement, dissemination
Funding for small projects (mini-projects, small grants)
Support for strategic initiatives / large projects, fund-raising
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The Higher Education Academy’s HE in FE
Enhancement Programme
Ian Lindsay
Academic Advisor HE in FE
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Background to Enhancement
Programme
• Initially, a HEFCE funded project with a brief to
provide support for HE in FE in England until July
2007.
• Now, although still funded by HEFCE and
maintaining an English focus, part of the Academy’s
core activities.
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Key Objectives
• Provide an effective means for educational staff to
engage with the wider support infrastructure.
• To share access to HE information and resources.
• To share good practice and work with colleges.
• To combine efforts with key partners to deliver a
coherent and integrated support infrastructure to
enhance HE learning and teaching policies and
practice.
• To promote professional and scholarly development to
increase the professional standing and recognition of
all staff.
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Gather, Develop and Disseminate
Effective Practice
• Teaching and Learning Group working on themes
such as innovative teaching and learning,
assessment etc.
• Management, Leadership and Quality Group
working on themes including the management of
programmes, establishing a HE culture within a FE
college, developing a strategy, running exam boards
etc.
– Monthly e-briefing on HE in FE
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Example Generic Events
• HE in FE: An Introduction for New Managers & Course
Leaders
• Uses & Applications of e-Portfolios
• Validating Foundation Degrees
• Experiential Learning
• Innovative Assessment
• Writing a College HE Strategy
• “Unlocking the Learning Experience” Conference
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Sample Resources
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Assessment DVD
Playing Cards to support Assessment
Directory of HE in FE (New edition out this month)
Good Practice guide on running exam boards
Creating a HE Ethos
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How can we work together?
• Remember - we’re there for you !!
– Please let colleagues know about the Higher Education Academy
and the Subject Centres.
– Please let us know how you’d like the HE in FE Enhancement
Programme and the Subject Centres to help.
• But, in addition
– Please let us know if you have developed, implemented or
practiced any new approaches, or altered any existing ones…
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Intute: Health and Life Sciences
http://www.intute.ac.uk/healthandlifesciences/
Laurian Williamson,
Content Coordinator, Intute: Health and Life Sciences
University of Nottingham
[email protected]
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Screenshot HLS
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What do we do?
• Free national service for the HE and post-16
community
• Search the Web to find free high quality Internet
resources and teaching materials
• Support students, academics and practitioners
• No registration or authentication
• “Intute offers what search engines don’t – commitment
to quality – by using subject specialists in universities
and colleges to hand-pick Web resources that will
support education and research”
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Key Partners
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The Royal Veterinary College
The Wellcome Trust
The Royal College of Nursing
University of Oxford
National team of subject specialists and practitioners
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Virtual Training Suite
• Free Internet tutorials aimed at students (including
Internet for Image Searching)
• Teaching Internet research skills in 65+ University and
College subjects
• Animal Health Tutorial
• Embed into your virtual learning environment (VLE)
• Use in taught courses and group activities
• Students provide very positive feedback
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JISC and other resources
• Bioscience ImageBank
http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/
• EFAB http://www.depts.ttu.edu/liru_afs/EFAB/
• Flickr http://www.flickr.com/
• JISC Film and Sound Online
http://www.filmandsound.ac.uk/
• JISC Jorum http://www.jorum.ac.uk/
• Images4U http://www.images4u.com/
• Merlot: http://www.merlot.org/
• QIA Excellence Gateway http://excellence.qia.org.uk/
• Veterinary Information Portal (VIP)
http://vip.vetsci.usyd.edu.au/
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JISC and other resources
• Bioscience ImageBank
http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/
• Encyclopedia of Farm Animal Behaviour
http://www.depts.ttu.edu/liru_afs/EFAB/
• Flickr http://www.flickr.com/
• JISC Film and Sound Online
http://www.filmandsound.ac.uk/
• JISC Jorum http://www.jorum.ac.uk/
• Images4U http://www.images4u.com/
• Merlot: http://www.merlot.org/
• QIA Excellence Gateway http://excellence.qia.org.uk/
• Veterinary Information Portal (VIP)
http://vip.vetsci.usyd.edu.au/
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JISC and other resources
• Bioscience ImageBank
http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/
• Encyclopedia of Farm Animal Behaviour
http://www.depts.ttu.edu/liru_afs/EFAB/
• Flickr http://www.flickr.com/
• JISC Film and Sound Online
http://www.filmandsound.ac.uk/
• JISC Jorum http://www.jorum.ac.uk/
• Images4U http://www.images4u.com/
• Merlot: http://www.merlot.org/
• QIA Excellence Gateway http://excellence.qia.org.uk/
• Veterinary Information Portal (VIP)
http://vip.vetsci.usyd.edu.au/
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Breakout into groups of 4-5
• Demonstration/interaction – signal permitting!
• Does anyone in your group already use any of these
resources and services? If so, what is your experience
of them?
• Is there any aspect of your teaching which could make
use of these resources and services?
• What would be the ideal resources and services
(whether they exist or not) to help you in your
teaching?
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