The SPLICE Project
The SPLICE project is a Cross-Institutional Lifelong learning project funded by JISC. The project is led by the University of Bolton with partners including
Coleg Harlech
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the Greater Manchester Strategic Alliance
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City College Manchester
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Cheadle and Marple 6th form college
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Oldham University Centre
The project seeks to uncover the pedagogical, technological and organisational challenges in encouraging learners to be self-regulating. It is an action-research project which orients itself around transforming the practices of teachers, learners and industrial practitioners.
During the project we will:
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Equip learners with a Personal Learning Environment to help them coordinate their studies
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Develop a service/tool within this environment to allow learners/users to track and share patterns of online social action
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Embed technological action and transform pedagogical approach to encourage learner-driven engagement
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Engage with and make connections between industrial practitioners in the creative industries fostering increased technological action including mentoring
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Drive the project with an iterative action research methodology using GMSA partners for evaluation and dissemination
The foci of our enquiry are:
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The relationship between lifelong learning and technological habit
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The future role of institutions in a learner-driven environment
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Affective issues in the personal relationship with technology
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Relationship between social software and perceived and actual social mechanisms
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The balance between teacher-driven regulation of learning and learner-driven regulation in a formal environment
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Scope for greater learner self-regulation within traditional assessment framework
Project Resources:
The Splice Ning network comprises students, practitioners and teachers:
http://splicegroup.ning.com |
Important Dates:
SPLICE launch event: 22nd November, 2007
CAST, Parc Menai, Bangor
An opportunity for practitioners, students and educational professionals to share practices with social software.