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Education

Glasgow Caledonian University

GCU along with every other University, have yearly student intake targets. Glasgow Caledonian required the means to shout about their student successes and encourage and convince their target demographic that GCU was the University for them.

Key to achieving the right tone for this was to use Peer to Peer testimony. Integral to our approach was to send out VOXUR to current and past students enabling them to tell in their own words why GCU was working and had worked for them. The result was a highly effective recruitment DVD for both the domestic and international markets. Our recruitment methodology has been so successful that we won a HEIST Award – the Oscars for Marketing in the Higher Education.

GLOW

GLOW - Co-Create

Co-Create is a pioneering new initiative to bring arts education resources online for schools across Scotland through Glow. The project has been set up to explore Glow’s potential to support innovative approaches to learning and teaching through the arts.

Through Co-Create, selected Scottish Arts Council funded arts organisations will be supported to deliver a number of ambitious demonstration projects which will trial new ways of learning and teaching.

Click on Video above or link below to find out more:

http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/glowscotland/sharingpractice/cocreate.asp

JISC CETIS

Centre for Educational Technology and Interoperability Standards, provides advice to the UK Higher and Post-16 Education sectors on educational technology and standards. Their website brings together educational technology news, comment and analysis, as well as information on community events. VOXUR helps JISC capture contributions to current debates and future thinking in this rapidly growing and changing field.

Routes to Success

Trying to navigate your way through the different qualifications you can study at school, college and university can sometimes be a confusing and daunting undertaking. School and Beyond shows the different routes people can take through education and how they link together.

VOXUR was used to outline each opportunity for studying at school, college and university. An interactive path was laid out for each qualification and where it could lead to. For each qualification a VOXUR video illustrates what each of the courses are, what qualities you need to study them, the fun parts of the course and what this could lead to for further study.

Follow the journeys of 10 people who have chosen very different routes and get an insight from the Tutors teaching the courses by clicking on: http://www.routes2success.org.uk/school_and_beyond

Scotland’s Learning Partnership

LIFELONG LEARNING: A GLOBAL COMMUNITY

From Canada to the Philippines to citizens of Scottish heritage VOXUR recorded the personal narratives of attendants at an Adult Learning Conference entitled “A Time for Learning: Paving the Way to CONFINTEA VI”. The event brought together a ‘global community’ of mature learners to discuss the future of adult learning.

VOXUR upends erstwhile barriers caused by language, literacy levels. Addressing dyslexia and other obstacles to learning VOXUR poses questions to candidates in a lively visual format or even in their native tongue.

United in their conviction that “Everybody has the right to an education” a nascent hope resurfaces in many responses that “Comment and opinion be expressed more by the adult learning community”.

The technology trialled at this conference points to the future of lifelong learning- personalised, egalitarian and accessible technology. VOXUR; a voice for all gives people the dignity of a private recording scenario free from public scrutiny.

Scottish Book Trust - Gowan Calder

Gowan Calder was Writer in Residence at HMP Glenochil in Clackmannanshire from 2008-9. Gowan has a wealth of experience in community theatre and worked with prisoners on developing their writing and storytelling skills across a number of genres, from telling their own life stories to devising drama and stand-up comedy routines. In July 2009 a group of prisoners put on a production of “F**k This for a Game of Soldiers”, a play they had written with Gowan’s support.

Scottish Qualification Authorities

Microsoft and the Scottish Qualification Authority (SQA) required a methodology to deliver an innovative teacher project though Partners in Leaning (PIL).

We used EMIT, the precursor of VOXUR, to capture teacher and pupils experiences throughout 10 Education Authorities, in an engaging manner with rich media output.

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