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E-Guides National Event Online 2008
Wednesday 5 March – Thursday 20 March 2008
We realise that not everyone can attend the E-Guides National Event in person, but here’s an opportunity to join in from afar.
Further details about the E-Guides National Event Online 2008
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Offender Learning and Skills: e-Learning Policy Conference
Tuesday 1 April 2008
Midland Hotel, Forster Square, Bradford BD1 4HU
This event is aimed at raising awareness of the e-learning activities taking place within the OL&S sector, and the OL&S e-learing national framework. It seeks to influence policy and decision makers with regard to ICT and e-learning.
Further details about the Offender Learning and Skills Event
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E-Guides National Event 2008
Thursday 13 March 2008
Manchester Conference Centre, The University of
Manchester, Weston Building, Sackville Street, Manchester M1 3BB
Following the resounding success of our National Events in 2006 and 2007, NIACE is pleased to announce that booking is now open for the E-Guides National Event 2008.
This one-day event, supported by QIA and LSC, will offer an extensive programme of workshops for E-Guides, e-learning practitioners and those responsible for implementing e-learning strategies.
This year’s programme is jam-packed with speakers who will bring you up-to-date on key themes and issues in e-learning and CPD, and workshops that offer hands-on opportunities to improve your skills with creating learning materials, using learning platforms and communications technologies.
Our keynote programme includes speakers from Quality Improvement Agency, Learning and Skills Council, Becta, Learning Lab, Institute for Learning, Centre for Excellence in Leadership and Manchester Digital Development Agency.
Further details about the E-Guides National Event 2008
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ICT Skills for Life Workshops 2008
Embedding ICT SfL within Literacy and Numeracy
Tuesday, 15 January 2008, Guildford
Saturday, 9 February 2008, London
Wednesday, 27 February 2008, Cambridge
Saturday, 1 March 2008, Leicester
Tuesday, 4 March 2008, Birmingham
Wednesday, 5 March 2008, Taunton
Saturday, 8 March 2008, Leeds
Tuesday, 18 March 2008, Newcastle
Wednesday, 19th March 2008, Liverpool
There is considerable interest in embedding ICT with other skills for life subjects in order to assist learners to achieve both standards (i.e. ICT with literacy and ICT with numeracy). ICT is a powerful motivator for many hard to reach learners so that linking the subjects will encourage many learners to participate.
The ICT Skills for Life Workshop Programme has been developed to raise awareness of the distinctive ways in which e-learning techniques and content can be applied to literacy and numeracy areas. These workshops will focus on topics and subjects that are also supported with materials procured by the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS).
The ICT Skills for Life Workshops will:
 | investigate how ICT as a Skill for Life can be embedded into literacy and numeracy to motivate and engage learners |
| explore new resources available to assist the delivery of ICT and literacy; and ICT and numeracy so that learners will be able to develop both sets of skills |
The workshops will last for one day and participants will attend both literacy and numeracy workshops.
Further details about ICT Skills for Life Workshops
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NIACE E-moot: 5-day online conference
Monday 1 October 2007 - Friday 5 October 2007
NIACE is staging an online e–moot to enable practitioners to engage in discussion and debate on issues around current e-learning practice. It will be of interest to managers and tutors alike.
The conference will be over five days and consist of four themed strands:
| E- Maturity |
| Guiding and supporting learners |
| Effective teaching and learning |
| E – Assessment |
Each strand will provide a range of activities and topics throughout the week.
In addition, guest speakers have been invited to speak to provoke questions and to engage in initial debates online, which will include the following topics:
| E-Portfolios |
| E- Learning and Inspection |
| ICT as a Functional Skill |
| Teacher training update |
| M-Learning |
| E – learning and Skills for Life |
An opportunity to experience the virtual world of Second life will also be available.
Further details about the E-moot
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ICT Conference: The Essential Skills for the 21st Century
In order to successfully participate in 21st Century society requires
individuals to be
competent and confident users of information and communication technology (ICT).
ICT has
changed the way we work, learn and live our lives. Over 90% of all new jobs
require ICT
skills and the growth in government and commercial online services means that
people who are unable to use them are increasingly at a disadvantage.
Employers require employees with ever improving levels of ICT skills and
knowledge
therefore 20 million employees will need to continuously enhance their skills.
Almost 17
million adults do not use the Internet and are at risk of serious social and
economic
disadvantage.
At the moment there are many new initiatives and developments underway that
make it
important to be aware of the main trends in assisting people to develop their
ICT skills.
Some of the new developments are:
| ICT as a Skill for Life |
| ICT Functional Skills |
| ICT Diploma |
| the relationship between ICT and other skills for life |
| vendor standards |
| ITQ. |
Further details about the Essential Skills for the 21st Century ICT Conference
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Signalling Success - one day workshops
The RARPA five-stage process is increasingly used by providers of non-accredited learning as the basis for good practice in recognising and recording progress and achievement. However the process has sometimes generated considerable amounts of paperwork.
The Signalling Success publication (Alastair Clark and Shubhanna Hussain-Ahmed, 2006), explores ways in which simple and accessible digital technologies can be used to replace paper documentation. Many of the examples given use simple software and familiar devices such as cameras and sound recorders.
Signalling Success training has evolved from this highly practical resource and is constructed around the five stages of RARPA. Great emphasis is put on ensuring that learners have confidence in a system of recording, which is of value to them and where they can have some control over the process and the product.
Who would benefit from attending Signalling Success training?
The practical workshops are targeted at staff with responsibility for
managing and/or delivering non-accredited adult learning (and therefore required
to manage and/or implement RARPA). It is assumed that those attending will
already have some knowledge and/or experience of the five-stage process of
RARPA. Those attending should be able to use a computer to access the Web and
for basic word processing. No other IT or e-learning expertise is required
Aims of the Training
| To introduce delegates to a range of different approaches for using digital technology to recognise, record and celebrate the progress and achievement of adult learners |
| To help participants to identify which approaches might be particularly suitable for their own work context, bearing in mind the need for any approach to be effective, affordable and acceptable to learners. |
Training Outcomes
By the end of the day each participant should:
| know how a range of different technological approaches can be used to recognise, record and celebrate learners’ progress and achievement |
| have had direct ‘hands-on’ experience of using some of these approaches |
| for each approach understand issues relating to effectiveness, affordability and acceptability to learners |
| know some of the issues to consider when making decision on what approaches might be appropriate for their own working context(s). |
Please note that the above training objectives map to the eCPD learning outcomes criteria.
Further details about the Signalling Success one day workshops
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