Wp symposium-he in prisonImproving access and support for Higher Education in prisons across the UK. Anne Pike, Helen Maxwell, Hilary Jupp, Mel Wharton, Pat McCarthy, Rob Parsons, Val Hancock-1-11-11
OU courses in prison have been a lifeline for reluctant, disaffected and rejected learners for nearly 50 years but the barriers are now bigger than ever. In this session researchers, tutors, course teams and Offender Learning managers come together to bring you the latest research and innovative practice (technological and off-line) from across the University. Join us to discuss how we can share the good practice, improve access and support for HE in prisons (and beyond) for another 50 years, and encourage a Widening Participation agenda which includes all of society, whatever their impediments.
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1. Improving access and support for HE in Prisons Wide Open, 1st November 2011 Anne Pike, Helen Maxwell, Hilary Jupp, Mel Wharton, Pat McCarthy, Rob Parsons, Val Hancock
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12. ISSUES ARISING FROM WORK DONE ON THIS PROJECT FEBRUARY TO JULY 2011 PATRICIA MCCARTHY INDEPENDENT COURSE PRODUCTION AND PRESENTATION CONSULTANT The Open University Core Curriculum for Prisons
18. B201 Business Organisations and their Environments 60 point 2 nd level module Compulsory in several OUBS qualifications 5 assignments, one of which results from a collaborative activity, the other four including marks for peer interaction. End of module exam.
29. Alternative approaches to online activities for prisoners and others without access to the internet Centre for Open Learning of Mathematics, Science, Computing and Technology (COLMSCT) Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning Val Hancock AL [email_address] Val Hancock - WideOpen
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31. PRISON TUTORS FORUM One of the first shocks was to discover that the prisoner had no internet access which made things rather challenging on a course that was using the eTMA system, issued TMAs via a website and required students to take part in FirstClass discussions for TMAs! I'm not clear on who provides the student with TMA questions when they are only available online (I sent a hardcopy of TMA01 just in case) There is no alternative to electronic submission of the ECA and if it can't be submitted electronically he will fail the course I think it is too much to expect either the prison Education Officer or myself to provide hard copies of everything they need He cannot do any of the iCMA's Just wonder what colleagues do in this situation? I hopefully can and will see the students F2F but what about all the online stuff? I don’t think he is allowed CD/DVDs Val Hancock - WideOpen
32. Content analysis Val Hancock - WideOpen Theme Number of messages Offering help & guidance 39 Lack of internet access 35 Asking for help & guidance 22 Reflecting on personal experiences 13 Welcoming forum creation 11
41. Top courses in prison 2011 Law Level 1 The Arts: past & present Personal Finance Learning to change Using Maths Starting Law Starting Maths Understanding society Starting Psychology Business Level 1 Social Science Level 1 Intro to management Title 40 W100 43 AA100 43 DB123 50 Y165 54 MST121 59 Y166 62 Y162 91 Y157 95 Y163 125 B120 130 DD101 141 Y159 No of students Course
42. The benefits: the student view “ It [OU] makes me feel a lot more like a human being. I’m not a number in a box, I’m an individual, I’m allowed to share and expand my mind” “ If it hadn’t been for the OU I’d have folded in on myself years ago.” (Andrew) “ I just can’t wait to get out and use the skills that I’ve learnt and try and put this behind me and I shouldn’t say this about jail and it sounds a cliché but jail is where I’ve found myself” ( Ethan )
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44. A visit to Norway see full account at http:// hdeprg.blogspot.com /
Improving access and support for Higher Education in prisons across the UK.
Hilary - Pat - a curriculum which can be studied in prison can be studied anywhere
Work was done on this from February to July this year. The resulting proposals are now with Helen Maxwell in OLDG together with arising issues. She now has to take this forward as an ongoing process
Resources: can be video, e.g. BBC news clips, company or organisation websites Own research: for example, find news items on a particular theme, or access external to the OU databases (as in law courses to make independent choices OU library: issues are prisoners access to the OU and possible licencing restrictions on downloading Collaborative learning is increasingly being rolled out. I have seen it in OUBS, Arts, Social Science and Science Faculties. Increasing use of online tuition. Do the regions have enough resources to replace these with conventional tutor support? Modes of presentation are no longer stable for the life of a course. Ongoing adjustments are being made to mode of presentation and delivery year on year, e.g. material originally provided on a dvd, is moved to the VLE, printed material moved to online delivery and changes from face to face tutorial programmes to increasing use of online.
We need to be able to offer programmes for which we know there is a doable route for students in prison. They don’t necessary need to be able to do all available options, but there must be a route to enable students to do any prerequisite courses and to be able to fulfill programme award requirements When is a course, not a full course? If a student must miss 15% of the continuous assessment, does that mean that we are still offering the student a good and satisfactory study experience? Who should make these judgements? Currently we are asking the Faculties to make them, but could there be more coordination through an academic director having responsibility for the Core Curriculum. When is OU quality under threat? What is fair to the students.
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Research Problems encountered by students in prison & education staff + potential workarounds Problems encountered by OU prison tutors Forum Tutors going to the same prison Tutors on the same course but in different prisons Communicate and swap ideas Establish ‘best practice’ Action Record ‘best practice’ in the wiki Trial on M150 ‘Data, Computing and Information’ (9 students, 7 tutors) Tutor Pack to advise on alternative approaches Alternative formats for materials Research Was it a success? Val Hancock - WideOpen
Prison Tutor’s forum (a FirstClass sub-forum of OU Associate Lecturers) Tutors are: Emailing or printing course materials published via the course website and sending them to the student. Summarising and anonymising forum contributions Emailing or printing web pages Carrying out mediated searches Re-inventing the wheel! No centralised support Excessive workload Val Hancock - WideOpen
Prison Tutors forum Purpose: To find what alternative approaches to activities requiring internet access were being used by ALs 95 messages over a 7 month period Lack of internet access – the original purpose of the forum Lurkers: Getting help & guidance? Empathy with personal experiences? 700-800 tutors with students in prison => 372 read forum, not all of those with a student in prison. Val Hancock - WideOpen
Research & action Dissemination of alternative approaches (plus other highlighted issues) tutors new to teaching and learning in a prison environment tutors returning to teaching and learning in a prison environment wiki implies up to date information only if people can be persuaded to update it! move to VLE wiki and forum Val Hancock - WideOpen
Prison ALs forum & ALs support wiki still going strong Part of the AL community site (home of the AL Common Room) Val Hancock - WideOpen
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VLE requires you to auto-enrol on the main page before allowing direct access to the forum & wiki. Val Hancock - WideOpen
After main questions – move to last screen and type in outcomes
We want 3 or 4 outcomes from this discussion Raise awareness, work together, consideration at an early stage of course design
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