 Thanks for making it to the very last session on the very last day also known as the graveyard session But I'm pleased that there's so many of you. Yes, so it's quite encouraging I was picturing maybe about 20 people in the last session, but this is quite good. So thanks for coming. Yeah now What I want to talk about today is really a good news story if we go To I'll give you a bit of introduction to what we did what this restricted environment was that I'm talking about I'll talk about What's called the raw program back in in New Zealand? We piloted a university first-year paper in a prison environment. I'll tell you about that paper Just briefly tell you about the IT setup and I'm not an IT expert. So don't ask me any complicated questions there I'm I was the learning designer and We'll talk about the challenges And and bit of reflection after the first delivery of the paper now on the very first slide We had my name as the e-learning designer You might have noticed Paul Cowan who's the IT expert. He's got a fancy title He's called the relationship manager for our faculty He was really great in identifying and recommending Particular IT setups for delivery within the prison and then there's Gina Miller who was the lecturer for this paper She's done really sterling work And didn't really have to be led by the hand. We had a number of meetings before and during The design of the paper, but she was just great taking the ball and running with it so We've been talking about you know having Easy access free access anywhere anytime to the internet, but really there are some Sections of society that don't have that luxury of access to the internet It could be because of their financial Situations it could be because of their location, but we also have people in prisons who don't have access to the internet Okay, so the challenge was How can we actually use an LMS in the prison setting? Back in New Zealand most prison education actually is paper based So people have books and notes and things and do a lot of writing and they may use computers, but but not an LMS so During last year the discussion started where Anastraton now Some of you might well, maybe the ladies would know anastraton. She's does anybody know anastraton She's a New Zealand fashion designer. Yes, at least one person knows that that's good She's got a number of shops selling her creations But she also does a lot of good work and she's got this a raw program RAW reclaim another woman and She does a lot of work in prisons But also outside of prisons getting people back into work, etc. So she approached our Deputy vice chancellor academic Robin Longhurst who also is on the raw board and said how about you guys delivering a paper for the women in prison and this was at the Auckland Regional Council's correctional facility So raw was actually established by anastraton and a sister Rebecca Skelton who does a lot of work in prisons as well So I I'm putting up those three pictures there. That's anastraton on the left Robin Longhurst our deputy vice chancellor academic in the middle and Gina Miller the lecture on the right and I've deliberately left out my picture because in my own estimation. I really didn't do that much And Also Paul Cowan the IT person who actually did a lot but we decided yeah We want to highlight the women as the role models because this paper was delivered in a women's prison So it was important also for the prisoners themselves and from now on I'll refer to them as students not prisoners It was important for them to see role models For for themselves. So just a bit of the raw program. I'm not going to read all of that Charitable work that anastraton does in regard to education both inside prisons and outside working with women In many cases also Getting them together with children that they might have lost at some stage because they were in prison That's just a picture from the raw website. So if you Google reclaim another woman You'll be able to read quite a lot of good news stories, okay This is a Note from a guy called Stephen Cunningham the direct director of offender employment and reintegration and It just shows that the raw is making an impact In in the prisons and this is just a note acknowledging that from Stephen Cunningham So if we go back to the paper that was chosen for delivery I work in the division of management, which consists of two schools and one of the schools is the school of marketing and management and The paper the first year paper the entrepreneur was chosen Now you might say why this paper well first of all it's a paper that didn't involve a lot of Quantitative work spreadsheets and stuff in fact none of that it was more descriptive and we thought this might be a gentle introduction secondly a lot of the Students that we were catering for actually did have entrepreneurial skills Maybe not in the areas that We would think a traditional but some of them actually made a lot of money Okay, okay, so so this paper was chosen and there's a brief description there about what the aim of the paper is But they could they were able to study theory and practice related to entrepreneurship identify characteristics of good entrepreneurs bringing their own experiences from all sorts of Ventures that they had previously been involved in drawing up of business plans Identifying a venture that they could possibly be involved with in the future now very important here also was lecture by in Gina Miller as I said was the lecturer you had to have someone who had empathy who had the nature to deal with With the students and was also willing to take up the challenge of designing a paper for delivery in the prisons The IT setup We had 20 students doing the paper And they were each given iPads which the university bought and then sponsored and was which was collected after they completed the paper It was preloaded with content in Moodle It was locked down and only a set number of apps were actually put on the iPad So the the iPads couldn't be used for communication within the prison It could connect only to a single identified wireless network Provided by designated cellular router now that all sounds well I'm not 90 person I said and it sounds like a mouthful, but actually the practicalities were actually quite interesting because when students were working on the iPads in their supervised learning sessions all their quizzes all their forum postings All their work that they had uploaded to be marked Of course because no internet connection couldn't come back to the university. So Paul the IT person Would go up to the prison at least once a week. He'd collect all the iPads at the gatehouse would be handed over by Corrections staff. He would literally go into the car park and Connected all and sync it with the university So feedback would come from the university and students work would be upload Loaded to Moodle where Gina could then market provide comments and so on So that was quite a labor intense of the Paul driving up from Hamilton to Auckland 250 kilometer return trip at least once a week, okay So And there's just a bit bit more if As I said the iPad was locked down. No communication was possible But if by some chance one of the iPads Connected to the internet then university IT staff would get an alert immediately All the iPads were also tracked and they were stored in the correctional facility in a secure cupboard While charging in preparation for the next session so each of the prisoners I said had supervised learning sessions They provided with the iPad a wireless Wireless keyboard and headphones as well by the way All except one of the students actually passed the paper which was the result that we did not expect Okay, and the one who did not pass Was withdrawn by the corrections department simply because she was caught with a set of their headphones leaving The study room, okay, so they're quite strict with all these things So that was just a few Well, it's not screenshots actually to physically take my camera and take photos of the iPad because it was locked down We couldn't take screenshots and email it. So this let's do the old way. So we had Adobe Acrobat to word PowerPoint and of course the Moodle app as well So the paper was delivered fully online, which was a major challenge Over six weeks Okay, and they had multiple supervised learning sessions every week So the lecturer only went to the to the prison at the beginning to Introduce herself to the students to find out what their learning needs were to have discussions What are what were their expectations and in fact? just to encourage them as well and She also went towards the end of the six weeks to go and assess student group presentations The learning sessions were either supervised by correction staff or Sometimes and a threatened a sister also supervised some of these As far as Moodle is concerned Gina wanted to keep it simple because for many of these but some of them had been in prison for more than 20 years and Had never seen smartphones or iPads before So Paul at Agap there for a few sessions to train the students on how to use it And we reckon using iPads would have been the simplest for them. Okay, so We had topic sections. There were six weekly topics Each included PowerPoint slides with embedded short videos activities assessments and resources Communication was either via forums or messaging and the forum was found to be much better Assessments add weekly quizzes They had to produce team reports and do a team presentation that an individual report and Also had to do an entrepreneurial self assessment now It sounds quite difficult for Students in the prison, but Gina was really good for a lot of these assessments She actually provided them with templates like a business plan template for example Which they can download paper copies of resources. They could actually take back to their selves. Okay, so The supervised learning sessions. Oh, there was quite a lot of group work as well where Students could self-select groups We didn't want to put them in groups because we thought well some of them actually didn't get along with each other So there are different factions. There was also support outside the supervised learning sessions So that's just a few of the screenshots of as you can't see that well But just giving you an idea of what they would see in the variety of resources and activities That was just an example of a slide with Gina and typically a video to the side content on the left here So challenges initially convincing corrections that this would be a good thing to do Paul had to actually travel to Wellington to demonstrate The setup to correction stuff lack of internet obviously The limited digital literacy we spoke about that We had a problem with words sometimes Unlicensing itself for some reason the Moodle app Routinely dropped content and it would only come right with a rethinking every week And there were access issues In terms of our staff sometimes turning up at the at the prison and being denied entry because something Else had happened in the prison What worked well, this is a quantity Gina the PowerPoint with the embedded slides really worked well The quizzes The students enjoyed They enjoyed having hard copies of worksheets But also the the templates that Gina had developed for them Not so well They didn't seem to enjoy the messaging app. So a forum was used with each student in a unique group We need to look at ways of providing feedback much faster the lack of familiarity with iPads was also a challenge and then access issues from the university side What's coming next is so we still need to have a debrief because this paper only ended a few weeks ago But I've just heard this morning the paper is the corrections We're very happy with the way things ran and they want us to rerun the paper at the same prison in September and this year We'll obviously look at modifications and improvements based on our experience And what will be more challenging is in the future looking at in our faculty particularly Are the quantitative papers economics finance accounting looking at ways of presenting that inside the prison? Scalability is also a problem. What if we do branch out to other prisons bigger number of students We can't have poor running up and down Sinking iPads so we're gonna look at those solutions And then also providing more learning support from both from the university and at the prisons So there's quite a lot I mean it hasn't been perfect But it was a pilot paper and the fact that they've called us back to repeat it means that we've at least got some success So just quickly we've made the newspaper Unfortunately, the headlines and newspapers were not really good. Look at that. Yeah Yeah So so we weren't very happy with those but at least we got publicity the stories were good But the headlines were not This was something from the university's website the entrepreneurial inmate Okay, okay. Thank you very much any questions. None. Okay. Is one over there. Ah Yes Most of them had been in prison for a good number of years I told you that Anna straight and the sister does a lot of work with them Not only with those few with with many more and and it was Anna who identified them as having potential Some of them had already done previous tertiary study. Some of them not and so Anna together with corrections decide on who would qualify. Yeah Yes, sorry, can I ask do the students have access on in the prisons to actual computers? Yes, but not for this paper. This was purely Using iPads. Yeah Anymore I can go now Thank you very much