Strategies for Employer Engagement – Evaluating the potential of Web 2.0 for enhancing teaching delivery
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2009-12-01 10:00 am EST
Presenter: Professor Neil Marriott, Dean of Faculty – Business, Law and Sport & Stella McKnight, Employer Engagement Manager, The Winchester Business School, University of Winchester
Following the Leitch report in 2004 – a review of the UK's long-term skills' needs – it was recognised that UK Business and Management students would be increasingly work-based, and that a blend of institutional and Web 2.0 technologies would be needed to support these students more effectively.
This session explores how the Winchester Business School, at the University of Winchester, and Logica, a global IT company, worked together to design a sponsored degree programme and to develop an enhanced learning environment for undergraduates following the scheme.
Although it was felt that Web 2.0 technologies had an important learning and support role, we realised that this role was not well understood. In the project we sought to develop an integrated approach to creating a learning environment by fully (and appropriately) exploiting institutional systems and Web 2.0 technologies, including Wimba. At the same time, we encouraged students to develop their own social learning networks.