An overview of Content for vocational learning in UK College Landscape.

1. Open, Collaborative and
Sharing Practice in and around
the Further Education Sector
The Content Landscape
Joe Wilson
JoeWilson@joewilsons.net

2. Where do you want to go – today –
learners … want …
Education that is :
• On demand
• Self Paced
• Personalised to learning style and pace.
• From any location
• Relevant to career and life now and for the future
• Reflects global learning and local needs – more
collaborative
• Meeting and listening to experts – high value but good
value
• In all subjects and in smaller packages
• Useable on Mobile devices

3. Education is changing

4. On-line and learning not new but new
entrants .. Doing more
Incumbents
Mostly distance
learning
• Open University
• UK opencollege
• ICS
and more …
New Entrants worth a look
The Virtual College
Tute
Open College of the Arts
Phonar
QA Computing Apprenticeships
Barclays Digital Driving Licence
Unicourse
West College Scotland
MyClyde
I have not included reference to the broad range of massive open on-line courses
that are potentially eating into mainly HNC/D space - have you thought about how
you build these into your current provision ? How about https://www.cybrary.it/

5. Why content partnerships ? and
what is content for ? Blended ?
• Scholar
• http://www.opencolleg
e.online/
• https://www.opuslearn.
net/
• Open Textbooks
http://oerconsortium.or
g/discipline-specific/
• https://www.tes.com/te
aching-resources
• Long established especially in
Scottish FE ( COLEG ) JORUM
and life after www.jorum.ac.uk
• Re-Source a national repository
not at moment a content
brokerage
• Lots of content for sale or
brokered but brings restrictions
on use https://www.jisc.ac.uk/e-
books-for-fe or tied to specific
qualifications
https://www.smartscreen.co.uk/
or not easily re-used in VLE
https://pearsonschoolsandfecolle
ges.co.uk/FEAndVocational/FEA
ndVocational.aspx
• http://fe.cengage.co.uk/
• Feltag / Etag Update UK FE in
same boat – need to broaden
content partnerships

6. Status of Jorum’s retirement
Activity Date
Retirement announced June 2015
List of alternative platforms available October 2015
Initial content assessment – ‘quick wins’ identified &
Decision framework available
December 2015
Migration status added to resources January 2016
Identifying content to migrate April 2016
Jorum deposits cease & with Jisc Content and App Store
being available for deposits
June 2016
Jorum retired 30 September 2016
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7. The new Jisc Content and
App Store
• Originated from Jisc’s Summer of Student Innovation
• Developed by Jisc Futures to provide a ‘shop window’ for
Jisc products
• Content to include: On-line Courses on
Digital Capabilities
Digital Leadership
https://digitalcapability.jiscinvolve.org/wp/digital-leadership/
And storage for -
Open Education Resources
And a digital market place for 3rd Party content …
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8. Store features
• Fulfil standard expectations: Reviews, ratings,
recommendations
• Ability to create ‘playlists’
• Open source software approach
• Governance model to content
• http://www.jorum.ac.uk/jorum-and-jisc-content-aps-store-
design-sprint-day/
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9. A deluge is coming and much of
it will be #OER

10. Open Scotland
Open Scotland is a cross
sector initiative that aims to
raise awareness of open
education, encourage the
sharing of open educational
resources, and explore the
potential of open policy and
practice to benefit all sectors
of Scottish education.
http://declaration.openscot.net/
Credit Lorna Campbell Edinburgh University

13. What next staff skills in development
and delivery
• https://www.jisc.ac.uk/guides/creating-blended-learning-
content
• https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/blended-learning-
getting-started/ #FLble1
• https://www.alt.ac.uk/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1
&id=20
• https://www.jisc-collections.ac.uk/Institution-as-E-
textbook-Publisher/

14. Contact
JoeWilson@joewilsons.net
@joecar

15. About Me – Professional
MA(hons), PGCE , DipEd, MBA, and a few
units SCQF 5-9
• English and History – with view to journalism but – liked youthwork so – secondary
school teacher – arrives in FE Cardonald 1986 – Communications lecturer - adult
literacy and community worker too –SCOTVEC unit writer – examiner - assessor –
first HNC/D developments – course designer – video production studio
commissioned – Senior lecturer - Section leader – General Education – 2000
learners on individualised timetables – Higher Still - SQA Coordinator – established
flexible assessment centre for core skills – COLEG Unit Writer – SFEU 1999-2003 –
Project manager – College Quality Systems – Restructuring – On-line and blended
learning – est 2001 Scotland's virtual college –TQFE development - blended
learning skill set for lecturers – JISC – FERL – NILTA – Anniesland Board and Chair
of Learning and teaching committee and Clyde College .. SQA 2003-2014 Head of
50% of all vocational qualifications in Scotland and core/essential skills , Founder:
Jiscinfonet , UK E-Assessment Association, developed bits of SQA international work
, Head of New Ventures ..new ways of working .. ALT Ambassador .. JORUM
Advisor , Chair JISC FE Skills Portal … Non Executive - Youth Link Scotland ,
Scotland’s Adult Learning Partnership – SCQF Partnership , CEO CDN ,
Independent Education Consultant , Trustee Clyde Foundation –
• Wants FE to catch up and be more flexible in delivery – not about replacing teachers
with technology but about empowering teachers and learners.

16. About me – in digital space ..and learning
Timeline - Pre-internet -
Banda – photocopiers – OHP projectors – Epidiascope’s – electronic typewriters –
word-processing – PageMaker – Illustrator WordStar
Hypertext
1996 – Webpage using free hosting –
all teaching notes on open web
2000 – Blogger
2001 – JISCMail
2001 – RSS feed Reader- currently Digg
2003 – PB Wiki and Wikis
2003 - Website on own domain
2003 – Delicious
2005 – Dropbox / One Drive
2005 – Skype
2006 – You Tube Channel
2006 – Flickr
2006 - LinkedIn
2006 – Slideshare
2007 – Twitter
2007 - Hootsuite
2008 – Paper.li
2009- Foursquare/Swarm/
2010 Open licensing of
content #oer9
2009 - Pinterest ??
2010 - Google Apps / Docs
2011 -Google+ hangouts
2012- GLOW ?
2013 Open Badges