Using Glow Meet to support college courses

Overview

Peter Gilmartin is Learner Resources Manager at Dundee College with responsibility for libraries, e-learning/virtual learning environment and media service provision.

In this cookbook Peter describes how Dundee College have been using Glow Meet to enhance school/college links, ease the transition from school to college and complement existing college education programmes. We will also see how to set up and record a Glow Meet.

Context

The current Glow contract does not extend to further and higher education establishments other than the teacher education institutes. In preparation for the next iteration of the Glow contract, a number of education stakeholders not currently covered by the existing contract, were invited to pilot Glow. Dundee College agreed to participate in the pilot exercise with a view to explore how colleges could contribute to and benefit from Glow.

The aims of the pilot include:

• To see how colleges could use Glow, both for their own students and for school link students
• To examine how Glow could enhance school/college links
• To look at how Glow might ease school/college transition for pupils going on to college

In this cookbook, we will:

• Hear how Dundee College is using Glow Meet to enhance school/college links and support existing college courses
• See how to set up a Glow Meet
• See how to record a Glow Meet session

Recipe

 Impact

Peter is very positive about the extra dimension that Glow Meet has brought to courses run by Dundee College:

• School pupils are able to interact with peers at college seeing first hand the vocational courses they can embark on. This gives the pupils a relevant, real world taste of the college experience, enriching and adding relevance to skills-for-work school programmes.
• Pupils are more confident when they come into the college as a result of having interacted in the Glow Meet sessions prior to visiting the college.
• Students of the Educational Support Assistants course are benefiting from Glow Meet sessions with the schools where they might end up on placement. This offers them the opportunity to view the kind of work they will have to do from a variety of different perspectives and contexts.  They are able to ask questions of experienced ESA’s and, with these Glow Meet sessions being recorded and stored in a Glow Group, revisit the recordings to review and research further prior to their placements.

 For more information on how Dundee College are using Glow, follow the link below:

To download a copy of the Glow Meet Guide, click here: Glow Meet Guide