John Burke

Jisc InfoNet

Taking a strategic approach to BYOD

John looks at both the opportunities and potential drawbacks of BYOD and argues that anything less than a strategic approach to implementation could lead to disaster. He will show how it’s an issue for every department both teaching and otherwise and for people at all levels from senior managers to lecturers and teaching assistants. 

John has worked for over 28 years in the post-16 Education Sector in both colleges and, for the past 11 years, as Senior Adviser with Jisc InfoNet. He has vast experience of conference speaking and specialises in topics around turning strategy into action. This includes strategy formulation, visioning, gap analysis, process review and improvement and project management of business change. In past positions John has introduced computers into college administration for the first time, developed information systems and processes from scratch and managed installation of college-wide network systems. He is a firm believer in “Strategy affects All, therefore All should Contribute to Strategy” and will be looking at BYOD, asking the big questions "Why?", "What are the benefits and consequences?" and "What does it have to do with me?"

Jackie Milne

Jisc Legal

Bring Your Own Device But Leave The Risk Behind

Whether you are at an early stage of implementing BYOD or you have established practices and policies in place, this Jisc Legal presentation will have something for you.
We will discuss the main legal issues and risks associated with BYOD, offer some practical tips on how institutions can meet their legal obligations and provide some key resources enabling you to move forward with confidence.

Following her law qualification, Jackie began a career in teaching, firstly in law and then teaching English across Europe and South America. She then spent nine years in education generally, managing various leadership roles across schools in central Scotland, including the introduction and implementation of the world's first national online community for education. She has also written and developed various high level policies and documents.

Jackie returned to law with a focus on education and ICT and joined Jisc Legal in 2009. She now works with further and higher education institutions sharing high quality legal information relating to the use of innovative technologies. She particularly enjoys active engagement with the learning community through online and face to face workshops and training.

Current areas of interest: mobile learning and BYOD, management of information, e-safety, open educational resources and recording lectures.

Kevin Burke

Carmel College

EDUROAMing at Carmel College

A brief description of the EDUROAM service and the steps taken to implement EDUROAM as the sole wireless SSID at Carmel College for Bring Your Own Device.

Bio : Employed as Head of IT Services at Carmel College for 15 years.
Over 20 years IT experience mainly within the Education Sector, including;
St Helens College and Warrington Collegiate Institute.
Involved in many IT projects including;
• Hyper-V virtualisation project.
• Virtual Desktop Infrastructure deployment.
• Office 365 provision to students.
• Managed Print Service.
• Unified Communications and Exchange Integration.
• Offsite DR Project.

Keen user of social media including Twitter, LinkedIn and blogs.

Roger Clegg

The Oldham College

Empowering learners to evidence assessment

Experience how you can empower learners to utilise their own devices to enable them to create and evidence their own assessment opportunities. Using a smartphone see how learners can create evidence at a time, place and pace to suit themselves and upload their work to an ePortfolio, Moodle or other VLE.

During the session explore how this can empower learners and allow assessors the time to discuss other aspects of their programme of study. See how the learner takes responsibility for their own assessments and creates actions plans to enable to meet the evidence requirements of the awarding bodies.

As Head of Learning Resources at Oldham College I have been involved in many collaborative projects with Becta, LSIS and, of course JISC and the RSCs. It is this sharing of good practice that has enabled me to promote and embed innovative ILT practices within my own institution. With this in mind I was privileged to receive on behalf of my team one of the RSC Innovation Awards in July 2013.

I firmly believe in ensuring that everything we do should enable our learners “to maximise their achievements” and that it must have a clear purpose linked to individual successes. During the workshop I hope you will have to the opportunity to experience how the use of BYOD can engage learners and encourage them to achieve at a time, pace and place to meet their individual needs.

Dale Davis

City of Liverpool College

Making Moodle and Resources Fit for Use on All Devices

One of the implications of the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) model is the need to deliver content to multiple devices with diverse form factors. Until recently this has meant deploying a separate “mobile” website, however the gap between phone and tablet sizes has been bridged over the last few years with “phablet” devices, plus more people are using tablets for general everyday content consumption. For many of today’s mobile users this separate “mobile” website can be just as limiting as the desktop equivalent.

In this session we will introduce the concept of “responsive web design” and look at how we can take a “device agnostic” approach when redesigning the VLE and creating learning materials, to better suit our users as mobile computing becomes more prevalent.

Dale is a Web & E-Learning Systems Developer at The City of Liverpool College and has 7 years’ experience working with Moodle, developing innovative web and e-learning solutions. Within the college he is responsible for the technical development of e-learning and related online systems; ensuring e-learning systems are implemented effectively to enhance the curriculum. Dale is also involved in the planning and delivering of e-learning training and acts as a consultant to support the use of the web and e-learning throughout the college. Dale works closely with Jisc RSC Northwest and is an active member of the Merseyside ILT group.

Kevin Hickey

Jisc RSC Northwest

BYOD + Personalisation = Independence
The Accessibility of personal devices

This session will looks at how personal devices can be used and adapted to meet the accessibility needs of the individual. Looking at how these mobile devices can be personalised though built in functionality and third party apps to support individuals in tasks such as sequencing, planning, organising information, reading and note taking.

By making the most of devices which learners use and carry with them all the time, learners are developing personalised skills which will lead to greater independence.

Before working for Jisc, Kevin spent five years working as an IT trainer for the NHS in and around Newcastle upon Tyne. Since 2006 Kevin has been an working as an elearning advisor for Jisc RSC NW, providing support to colleges, sixth forms and other learning providers in their use of technology to support learners with learning difficulties and disabilities. In 2010 Kevin graduated from the Open University with a MA in Online and Distance Education.

Judy Bloxham

Jisc RSC Northwest

Engaging learners through formative eAssessment on personal devices

This session will place you in the position of the learner so you can experience how engaging some eAssessment tools can be. As you take part in the activities you will be able to see the information that you can gather as a teacher to help inform you about your learner’s progress. Tracking learner progress is an important aspect of the new CIF, and can enable Assessment for Learning (AfL).

Prior to working for RSC Northwest Judy worked for over 10 years in the FE sector. She is a member of the board of the eAssessment Association and as such has an active interest in how eAssessment can be utilised to help learners learn, and to provide informed planning. In 2010 Judy graduated from the Open University with a MA in Online and Distance Education.

Stephen Wileman

South Staffordshire College

Vyclone – Multiple angle, social video sharing
Experience how Vyclone allows you to video activity from multiple perspectives. Using its social media platform you can sync, mix, re-mix and share with ease. No need to try to line up the footage, this is all done automatically. The simple interface can turn anyone into a director. Discover how South Staffordshire College have been making use of this wonderful platform to capture demonstrations, evidence, events and so much more.

Sandra Taylor

Ashton 6th Form College

Trying to organise students with an app

How Ashton Sixth Form College designed an app to help students organise their college commitments. With JISC funding we have built an app for iOS and Android that gives students their timetable on their mobile phone. It also allows them to add their meetings and work commitments such as homework, assignment deadlines, etc and receive push reminders on their mobile device.

I am the eLearning Manager at Ashton Sixth Form College and an ICT teacher. I have been teaching ICT for over 20 years and have been eLearning Manager for 8 years. During this time I have led several projects to bring technology into teaching and learning to enhance the student experience in college.

Simon Riley

Halton District Council

Accessing a managed learning environment 24 x 7, Windows 7 on any internet enabled device

This session looks at how desktop and server virtualisation technologies are being used to create a dedicated Education Cloud (Edu8.halton.gov.uk). Delivering a schools agile working project: - A “One to One” relationship with a managed desktop experience that can evolve and adapt as the learner moves through the Primary, High school and potentially into the FE system in line with their technology demand. 

Learn how the “Donate to Educate” project is starting to allow parents and learners to lease their own fully managed desktop space utilising and locking down the learners own equipment, or, through the same scheme accessing a managed iPad with the Desktop space enabling learner access to a secure IOS, Windows 7 and shared data environment, filtered to suit all age ranges.

Mandy Hindley

Wigan & Leigh College

Positive about Impact: BYOD developments driven by the student voice