Spotlight on…. Birmingham Metropolitan College September 17, 2009
Posted by Jacquie Kelly in : Collaborative Tools, Trials, BCE , trackbackMidland Health Academy (Led by Birmingham Metropolitan College)
The project reported that the development stage had been completed and that all the Midland Health Academy partners had agreed to be involved in the project.
It was decided that Moodle would be used and training has been arranged for all the partners involved. Elluminate has also been chosen as the collaborative tool for the project. There were some problems relating to licences and support so Birmingham Metropolitan College are now making the most of the JISC Advance (what we used to call JISC Services) licence that JISC Netskills manage.
Project partner meetings have also been held and the priorities agreed. Stage 1 consists of online meetings and blogs. Stage 2 involves collaboration and discussion through forums and shared folders, with Stage 3 focussing on workforce development and knowledge exchange. In Stage 4 the project will look at product development, possible CPD modules and other courses developed to meet workforce development needs.
Looking further ahead the project hopes to complete the curriculum mapping of all courses and training offered by the partners, as well as starting to define the progression pathways for NHS staff training and development. The project also hopes to share workforce development plans for the Heart of Birmingham tPCT and build on the successes already achieved.
OK - hopefully you will have noticed that the change in name! Sutton Coldfield and Matthew Boulton College have merged.
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Hi all
I thought I would give you an update on the Response project! Our biggest problem so far has been connecting the project laptops to university and NHS systems. Part of the project is to work with IT network administrators so we could use each organisations IT system to run Elluminate. HOWEVER, some of the HEIs have been very accomodating and have allowed access to ‘external’ laptops whilst some of have been…. less accomodating and the NHS has, because of security issues, been very difficult. We are now trialing broadband dongels and this has been very successful when we used Skype but we don’t know if they will cope with Elluminate. If any of you have used these dongels with Elluminate could you let me know if the bandwidth was sufficent? Also if anyone has a contact in O2 who we could talk to about sponsoring the project could you pass on the details?
Thanks Lynda
Hi, Thanks for this very useful (and informative) update Lynda. I’ve used a dongle for an Elluminate session and it wasn’t too bad. If I remember correctly it cut out a couple of times but that was over a 1 hour session. Good luck!
Hi it’s really good to see the progress being made both in the project and in my own personal development.