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ROTHERHAM LEARNING PARTNERSHIP

RESOURCES

In this section you will find useful information to help you as a practitioner using ICT to support teaching and learning. If you are a teacher or a tutor, you will find information on national, regional and local policy to support ICT in learning, with pointers to sites that will give you resources. If you are a technician, you will find useful technical information.

Quality

The ICT Group strategy is based on exploiting major ICT programmes locally and regionally to deliver the aims and objectives of the Rotherham Learning Partnership. Many of these programmes are run by accountable bodies that have their own quality assurance and performance monitoring measures.

We see our role in the Rotherham Learning Partnership ICT Group as helping to assure quality from a local perspective.

Quality Assurance Activities

Engaging the wider partnerships and programmes with clear focus, aims and objectives
Ensuring that proposed programme outcomes will meet the identified needs
Monitoring and reporting outcomes to the local partnership in terms of local measures
Communicating opportunity, good practice and success, especially through the web site
Benchmarking progress through ongoing mapping of the ICT learning infrastructure and of the qualifications / skills uptake

Performance Measures

The Rotherham Community Strategy sets out a number of performance measures for learning.

Technical Information

One of the priorities for action of the RLP ICT Group is to facilitate sharing of ICT expertise and resources by supporting ICT technicians.

Here, technical staff will find a collection of links that point to initiatives and information relevant to ICT in Rotherham.

In Yorkshire:

ICT Directory
information on ICT suppliers within the region, ICT advice and information on upcoming ICT events

In Rotherham:

Learning Centre Search
Information on ICT facilities in learning centres across the Borough

Coming up….
an ‘Exchange & Mart’ for IT hardware available from this site

National Initiatives

The Becta ICT Advice site has an area specifically for ICT co-ordinators in schools, with resources such as:

- CD-ROMs
- Interactive videos
- Simulation software
- Online services

and topics such as:

- How to deploy ICT resources effectively
- Common factors in successful ICT practice
- Definition of a learning platform

The UK IMS Centre
A global coalition of academic, commercial and government organizations, working together to define the Internet architecture for learning

Techdis
Technology and disability site with up to date information - including a link to Skill and JISC information on the new Disability Act. Also a large database of assertive technology.

Policy

ICT Policy Information

Here, classroom practitioners and those organising ICT-supported learning provision in Rotherham will find pointers to relevant national, regional and local policy.

In Yorkshire:

Regional Economic Strategy
Framework for Regional Employment and Skills Action
Objective 1 Single Planning Document

In South Yorkshire:

LSC South Yorkshire –
e-Learning Strategy
Workforce Development Programme
Cluster Skills Strategy
Community Action Plans

In Rotherham:

Rotherham Community Strategy
Strategic Plans of Rotherham LEA for Schools & Adult Education
Strategic Plans of the FE Colleges

National ICT Reports

‘Get On With IT – The Post-16 E-Learning Strategy Task Force Report’, DfES

Outline Draft Report of the Distributed E-Learning Group (DELG), LSC

‘Transforming the way we learn – A vision for the future of ICT in schools’, DfES

‘ImpaCT2: Emerging Findings from the Evaluation of the Impact of Information and Communications Technologies on Pupil Attainment’, Becta for DfES

Managed Learning Environment Briefing Papers, JISC

A Strategic Plan for e-Skills in the UK, 2001-2004, e-Skills Sector Skills Council

Useful sources of information:

ALT
Association for Learning Technologies

BECTa
British Educational Communications & Technology Agency

BAOL
British Association for Open Learning

JISC
Joint Information Systems Committee

Learning Lab

NLN
National Learning Network

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