Embedding WBLWAY

The process of embedding WBLWAY into college processes is continuing. It features in the ILT Development Plan but not in the consciousness of the key players in employer engagement and HE in FE.
Remedies that I am working on:
Development of a portal from our college web site that places WBLWAY visibly alongside all of the ILT services that I am developing (from Library- to Moodle- to Well at College etc).
Encouraging the take up by students (particularly where my contact employers have an, " I see them everyday anyway", attitude).
Adding a WBLWAY agenda item, to follow up our pursuit of the Training Quality Standard, at the OMT meeting on June 6th 2008. 1. to point out that WBLWAY satisfies some of the requirements for the standard. 2. to restate that our employer engagement team, HE curriculum developers, marketing team, should be helping me with this project.

Stepping up use of WBLWAY

Ruth Gill, Burton Nursery, has now reviewed the changes made to improve the Information Point. All of the FD students that Ruth manages will now be encouraged to use WBLWAY to access course details and communicate using the formums. Once this has happened, the plan is to revisit all of the employers engaged so far and illustrate Ruth's progress.

Moving on

As a follow up to Mark Stiles and Fleur Corfield's address to our ILT Strategic Planning Group, I am presenting a WBLWAY update to our Operational Management Team (OMT) on Friday 6th June 2008.
In the meantime the information point is to appear on the new Student ILT page that we are planning to use as a portal to online student services. This will give it a formal profile and help me to "trial it" further.