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We have had a busy week, with three of us attending the CETIS Conference in Birmingham. This was a very useful event, mainly for the networking opportunities it gave, but also due to the great open...
Well the last few hours have given me some interesting reading thanks to Twitter, in particular @mikehamlyn and @theopengroup. The first article was from the Guardian and talks about "treat student...
I attended a recent SURF meeting at Staffordshire University that discusses the development of Fd's. This was a very informative meeting, as issues raised were clearly linked to work being under ta...
On the technical side of Enable, we're developing an Enterprise Architecture. An Enterprise Architecture is a conceptual blueprint of an entire enterprise including business principles and motivati...
Well it was an interesting two days in Manchester, I found them very useful, although often the session discussions did not have clear guidance the discussions we had during them were very useful. ...
It has been a week of thought, discussion and production of media for the programme meeting next week. I have to say I spent some time on this, the poster should have been a quick job, and in fact ...
Well after a bit of editing, alot of messing around the video is now available via YouTubeBe kind!
This is a small version of the poster for next weeks programme meeting that is being held in Manchester.
After talking to others who attended ALT-C and those who followed the Twitterings it became clear that there was a feeling from those who have been involved in Learning Technology for over the last...
I have realised that it is difficult to to get stakeholder engagement after the summer break. I have added a new discussion and sent a welcome back email to my online group in Ning, and will have t...
This has a become a big thing for our project, how are changes managed to the core student data and how are those changes communicated to staff who use that data? I had a conversation with a member...
As an institution we have a new project running called the OER project (Open Educational Resources) and this has started some interesting conversations and thoughts over the university. As part of ...
A big thank you to Manchester, Bolton and Leeds who made their way to Staffordshire yesterday for our second cluster meeting. We had a lot of good discussions around what we have all been working o...
We have been talking a to a few more internally managed initiatives that are not part of the executive register and are not externally funded and discovered some interesting aspects to managing pro...
This is a big question for me, and the project, at the moment as its part of the next stage of the project. We have helped with the development of a strategy for the university around Curriculum De...
As promised here is the conference presentation we did at ALTC, it is approx 14 mins long
Well what a three days! One of the first sessions after the keynote was the one done by Sam and myself (http://altc2009.alt.ac.uk/talks/show/6792), which I recorded and will try and post either lat...
The main work for this week has been at getting ready for ALT-C and finishing off the baseline report for JISC. Sam has done a lot of model work to get the baseline together and done a great job. I...
With the summer holidays nearly over normal blogging service will be resumed in September. However we have not been quiet in the time available to us and work has been progressing on a number of di...
As mentioned in the last June blog, this month has been fairly quiet due to Summer Holidays, which will be continuing over August too. Still things have been happening in the world of Enable.At the...
Last week I attended a focus group looking at the learner experience for the distance learner from point of induction onwards, I spent a lot of the time listening to the experiences of staff around...
I am testing polls out here, I am interested in those of you out there involved in the Award development process. Please take a moment to answer my quiz!
Well you may have noticed that blogs have been a bit thin on the ground, this is due to a number of reasons, one of which links to the summer holidays, I have been enjoying some short weeks, and wi...
As the project moves on we have now completed the evaluation plan - this will go up on the project website over this week (along with the project plan). I still have to go through the workpackages ...
I have a telephone conversation with Tony (our critical friend) today about the level of input that appears to be going into the official documentation for JISC. This has become a bit of a bug bear...
Yesterday I ran my first workshop at the Staffordshire University TSL conference focusing on the work that the Enable project is doing at trying to bring together the individual projects within the...
We had a full day yesterday as a team working through the next step of the Enable project, talking about the final part of the Investigation phase and the evaluation plan and what we are actually l...
I have just finished a day at Bolton looking at the benefits of using Archimate (http://wiki.cetis.ac.uk/Archimate_Workshop) for modelling the Business processes at the university, and the way it h...
We have had a busy week and this week will continue in that theme. It was the programme meeting in Birmingham, followed by a presentation on Strategy and leadership for my course, and a visit to a...
Work has been busy recently and I have finally managed the JISC final Project Plan, although this is not the final one for the project as it will continue to be refined based on the work taking pla...
As part of the work we did in the cluster meeting last week I have made an additional page for the Enable project under PageFlakes www.pageflakes.com/staffsprojects this site already has a page for...
We had a very interesting time at the cluster meeting last week, and we would like to thank Robin for all his hard work in hosting the event. There was a focus on looking at how each institution re...
As mentioned in an earlier blog I attended a very useful session in Birmingham on Quality Assurance and Enhancement done by the HEA to support the Curriculum Design and Development and Curriculum D...
We have got together as a team to go through the different initiatives against the 5 themes that were created at the start of the project, and we noticed something very interesting. In each case al...
By 10:30 I have already had some useful conversations around the Enable project, in particular I have now got 2 emails coming to me with regards to the process mapping. I have also got to send 2 em...
As part of the partner work for Enable we had a successful partner validation recorded in the Ning community last week, with Stafford college. They were complemented on the working relationship bet...
Well I have been quiet on the blog for the last month due to holidays and meetings, and for the next two weeks this will continue to be the case as I am out of the office with a friends wedding, a ...
This week has been very interesting, with the start of it at Warwick University for the HE in FE conference. Although I have not got a direct link with Staffordshire University partners, obviously ...
After a week of meetings an interesting thought has developed about how we manage a change to business rules. Do we have processes for this or is it, as I feel, more reactive than we would like as ...
After a number of posts last week I have been very quiet this week due to attending a number of meetings on process mapping and also continuing my training on Leadership and Management. This week h...
A number of things are happening with the project at the moment which involves a fair bit of thinking. The main thing really is how we link iniatives to different themes, and what those themes shou...
Resourcing is a recognised issue that has been raised with the Enable project, and with other members of the SMWG at different meetings, although the project is highlighting the issue it recognises...
As part of a presentation Prof Mark Stiles did for an internal conference on "Seize the Technology" Mark mentions the work of the Enable project and how it is disseminating the work it is doing to ...
As promised here is the presentation I gave yesterday to the SMWG around Strategy and Change Management. Due to the presentation being images only you will need sound. I have tried to summarise wha...
So far this week there is a big focus on getting together, first with the colleges on Monday and then yesterday with the Senior Management Working Group. This meeting was to give an update on the p...
Just back from the Shrewsbury HE forum, got some interesting feedback about the perception of how the University handles it's partners and also that it is often not clear to colleges whether they a...
The Enable project is concerned, in part, with facilitating joined-up thinking across Curriculum Design-related projects and initiatives running at the University. As an institution, we're generall...
This week I have attended a number of meetings around work being done in the unversity around looking at our provision of product available to our partner colleges and their learners. This has incl...
It has been a week of deep thought for me thanks to my training last Friday with the CPD people here at Staffordshire University. I am taking a Post Grad Cert in Leadership and Management which has...
I have just been doing a review of the CircleSpace.net which is the JISC programme environment for Enable and related projects. As part of this I see that they have some useful resources linked thr...
We have had two initiative meetings this week, the first was around APEL; what issues we had in handling APEL from potential learners, and how we generally handled learners wishing to embark on HE ...
We had a successful critical friend visit with Tony where I gave the first version of the new partner presentation I did, to give him an idea of how the partners fit in with the project. We also ga...
The weekly catch up meeting was very interesting with Mark this week, we have a number of tasks for the next week, mostly based on the blog I wrote last week while Mark was away. We are still plann...
Yep me on both accounts, the first was one wrong button press and the other solved with Help to the rescue! Those crafty devils at Microsoft, tags can be added a the bottom of the screen (apparentl...
Well I have been working with Office Live and MS Writer for a couple of days now and I am really please with it so far. Writer certainly seems to tick almost all boxes, bar putting tags against a b...
As Mark has been away this week the project has yet to hear back about how the new change groups will fit within the Enable project. I have, however, updated Elgg with my notes from the training Sa...
Where are we with partner communication and general management of documents and blogs? My personal thoughts on the journey.
…a lot of different blogs, discussions and document links. So I am trying something, tools to bring it all together. Are all these tools necessary? Breaking it down, yes there is a reason for each ...
I released the Elgg network to the SMWG last week and found that only one member has managed to successfully join the network. We will have to keep an eye on this and see if the others join slowly ...
Well this week has been a bit of a stop-start as the snow covered the country and stopped me from being able to make it to the partner meeting planned at Ashton on Monday afternoon. This was a sham...
Since Tuesday I have been very busy working on the Enable Social Networking side of things, the university has been developing a new tool, elgg (http://learning.staffs.ac.uk/elgg) that I have been ...
OK so I had a SURF meeting and unfortunately not one that includes sun, sea and ice-cream. The meeting went well, with talk around how colleges go about contacting the university and working on new...
We had our last project partner welcome meeting on Friday afternoon, and all in all it was a very interesting meeting. We did the usual presentation (which can be seen on the main project blog - ht...
Had a rather interesting experience this week with one of the partner colleges who could see the Ning site text but none of the images, therefore they can’t, for the moment, participate with the gr...
The new year has now got rolling, and the project is still moving forward, so there is no moss sticking to the sides ;). There have been a number of project meetings including one around Distance L...
The project partner presentation at Newcastle went really well and seemed very positive. They gave us some thoughts on where they would see the Enable project, plus seemed very open to the idea of ...
Had an interesting conversation with Sam on Monday afternoon about how the spokes will all link together, and that we need to start thinking about the themes and who will fit in each one. We have s...
We had an interesting conversation this morning around how the university markets itself to different learners. We found that the recruitment of learners can be something that is the responsibility...
We have had another busy week here, talking to members of faculties, those reviewing processes in the university, and taking part in Annual Award Reviews. It all feeds into what we would like from ...
We have had some feedback about the logo, fortunately it is all positive and therefore we now officially have a logo! Thanks to Sam for his hard work on this and to Marketing for giving us a nice v...
I promised to write a bit about the project interviews, at the start of the week we spoke to Beebe about work in marketing around collecting course information from faculties and then delivering th...
I have had an interesting week, you can see on the main blog that we have finally got a brand together for the project & that fits within the universitys branding. Once we get the final copy from M...
Well it seems we had not used the correct text for branding, plus Sam noticed that the button icon was a bit too close to the Gadget show button, so with a bit of modification, and input from marke...
Well the great work of Sam has paid off and the decision has been made to go with this as our logo (although we are checking with Marketing to ensure there are no problems with using this from a co...
This week our project meeting was on Monday, which linked to the Strategic Team Meeting we had at the end of last week. The core project team has now all registered at the JISC CircleSpace site and...
We had a strategic project meeting this week and as part of the meeting we started talking about branding the project. I am used to having project partners on board so not using university colours ...
We had an interesting meeting with Richard, from the SURF office on Tuesday afternoon. This was the first of our in depth interviews with spokes, which took a good hour and a half and could have go...
Which will teach me to listen to the radio whilst writing this blog!This last week I have posted onto the forum the:Roles of the core project team Roles of SMWG. I am waiting for confirmation on th...
Well I have been working on the project roles and responsibilities and have got most of them on the forum now, just waiting on some of the non-core roles to come back to me before they can be publi...
Over the last week the project has been pulling together information around the project team, formalising roles and the structure of the project. This should make it clear to the project team how w...
We had a partner meeting on Friday morning which enabled us to speak for the first time with the partners about their involvement in the project. They seemed very positive about how this would help...
The Progamme meeting in Oxford was at the start of this week and went really well. We have now all been asigned to different cluster groups based on project similarities. We worked together for the...
Just back from for the Curriculum Design Programme, two great days down in Oxford. As I mentioned in an earlier blog we were thrown back to the 70’s with the use of TV show titles to lead us into s...
Working hard at the moment for the programme meeting next week. It is a bit different from the usual meetings I have been to, and I have been working on turning the project into a TV show, and thin...
All went well at the SMWG meeting on Tuesday, we almost had a full complement of senior managers and everyone had something to contribute to the meeting. After introductions Mark went through a pre...
I had my first meeting with Richard yesterday, to talk about how to bring the project partner colleges on board and what we expect of them. We are organising a meeting to introduce the partners to ...
This is where the main project team will blog about their experiences. However Enable is a project that involves pulling together a number of initiatives together and therefore each initiative will...
This blog is my own, for the Enable project, this will be where I put my thoughts throughout the project that are separate to the main project work we are doing - this will include more informal th...
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