Download - In brief induction may 2014
Technological tips and tricks to help with the business of getting students and staff on board and familiar with the organisation.
13/04/2023 Induction and Technology
Induction
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Phil Hardcastle, Catriona Moore, Trevor Eeles
Aims and Objectives
To make some practical suggestions about how some aspects of the induction process can be delivered online.
To help make Student and staff induction a more useful experience.
To give some ideas about the ways that technology can be used to provide activities which will help the induction process.
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We hope, in this webinar:
Why do induction?
Understand the ethos of the organisation – what it
expects of its staff and students and what it will
do for them.
Orientation – help newcomers to know what
to do, where to go and how to get there.
The underlying objective is to get both staff and
students settled in quickly and working
productively.
Induction in detail
Generic – organisational induction
• Ethos
• Familiarise students with the site and buildings
• Discipline
• Safety & Support
• Social & Recreational
Course induction
• Learning programme
• Guidance
• Study skills
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There’s a lot to cover
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The dreaded checklist – death by tickbox!
How do you do induction?
Checklist
Video clips
Games
Online Induction
Forms
QR Codes
Virtual tour
Depends on the business model.
ACL, WBL may be recruiting and inducting learners as they go. FE/HE may have a significant induction need in October.
Both have their problems – consistency and impact are problems with the roll on, roll off method. The large numbers involved in induction days predicate against individual attention.
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Roll on, roll off or all at once
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Enrolment Patterns
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Geographical dispersion is also an issue – county wide ACL services have to induct people in a wide variety of venues.
1 Adult and Community Learning
2 FE College
3 Specialist College
4 Work-based Learning
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Which sector are you?
The key to successful induction is to spread it out.
There is a huge amount of information to be given, but not all of it needs to come in one day.
Besides, students ability to absorb all this is limited – remember the 20 minute attention span!
Pre- Induction•Familiarisation•Making friends•Transmitting ethos
•Preparation
On the day•Ethos, essential geography
During the week•Forms, IT•Course info
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Induction: breaking it down
Using social media it is possible to
provide new students with a link to the organisation and to their peers
who are also starting.
Web based activities such as familiarisation with the layout of the buildings through a
virtual tour – particularly useful for
students with accessibility needs. See example from
New College, Stamford
http://www.stamford.ac.uk/360-tour/
Attitudes towards the
course could be influenced by
short video clips of other
students talking about the
course and their experience.
FAQs could be set up
which answer the
most commonly
asked questions.
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Pre-induction activities
Channel Via
Social Media
Friendly welcome
Lots of signposting to web and mobile resources
Information via multiple channels
Receive important
College informati
on:
Talk to our
tutors:
Talk to our
students:
Find out about the support
available to you:
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The Open Day
Many students/learners
will have mobiles – think about how you
can use this as a channel of
information. Facebook and other
social media are now predominantly
using mobile.
If you’re going to use mobile prepare
the students by telling them which apps they might
need – a QR reader for example.
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Get their mobiles ready
Examples of video being used
“Sorry I can't be with you” video
Pre-induction welcomeInduction: getting to know you for studentsPost-induction video wall
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Use Video
WBL
Trevor Eeles from Lagat
Web-site used to get info to students
Adult and Community Learning
Derby City staff induction
Learner induction by tutor
Some providers now emailing essential info out early
Complaints about form filling from learners
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Dispersed staff and studentsExamples
Induction day
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Ok, so much of this might be face to face - but everyone gets bored with long checklists.
Data collection is important, but too much makes it a tedious introduction to the course. Are there ways some of it could be put online for filling in later?
Give them a break – do a mystery tour with clues and QR codes.
Use IT as an icebreaker – Mentimeter, Padlet etc.
Games – see induction video on our Moodle
Get feedback through mobile voting systems. Signpost to more detailed info on VLE/Website
Induction week
There’s lots of different inductions needed – IT in particular with e-safety, & IT systems etc to be sorted. Much of this can be done online the first time they log on.
Reminders – posters with QR codes with photos of the people who can help – IAG, Student Support, Health Issues, Counselling
Lots of signposting to web info – remember lots of learners/students will have their own mobiles.
How can it be improved?
Less form filling
Shorter
More online information
Fewer speeches
Your views
Did it work?
Information overload, both verbal and printed. Avoid hours of speeches and presentations and voluminous policy manuals or information packages. What matters is what the student/employee understands and retains, not how much he/she is told.
The process is too passive. Provide activities that students/employees can participate in, not just watch and listen to. The most important ones are self-training (eg computer-based) and having 'real work' to do from an early stage.
Information is irrelevant. Remember to start with the 'basic survival' principle, and gradually build from there.
Don’t forget the online student survey – how was it for you?
Reasons why induction programmes fail
Links & Upcoming Events
ILT Forum Basford Hall, Wednesday 7th May, 9:30am for 10am
Work Based Learning Forum, 16th May. MESMA will talk about their software for quality improvement planning and KM Training of Derby will be sharing details of their Traineeship Staff support programme.
Moodle user group, 23rd May at Derby College’s Roundhouse site next to the railway station.
Finally there is our summer jamboree of online and face to face workshops – Insight 2014. As last year there are two days of online events (5th & 6th June) and a face to face day repeated in Leicester and Nottingham (10th & 11th June). Booking is open from this weekwhen the programme details will be available.
Work Based Learning Forum
Links and EventsEMFEC are running a workshop on Active approaches to learner induction on Tue 13 May 2014. Time: 09:30 - 16:00
http://www.emfec.co.uk/cpd/active-approaches-to-learner-induction
Contact Information
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Phil Hardcastle
Catriona Moore
Trevor Eeles
www.lagat.co.uk