JISC Legal’s ten tips...
1. Appoint someone to have overall responsibility for e-safety, ideally a senior member of staff.2. Establish an e-Safety group that represents all stakeholders and includes learners and teaching staff where possible.
3. Audit current e-safety measures and identify weaknesses and areas for development. The Generator tool, or any of a number of other e-progress review tools
(PDF format) may help you with this.
4. Write an e-safety policy that uses appropriate language.
5. Establish consistent risk assessment procedures for the use of technology in learning. (Our Learning Technologies Adviser may be able to help with aspects of this).
6. Provide an easily accessible document, detailing relevant behaviours and sanctions where appropriate.
7. Have a clear and well publicised incident response and reporting procedure in place. (Ties in with point 5 above).
8. Schedule a training programme to promote safe and responsible behaviours, raise awareness of the institution’s e-safety rules and explain how to report an incident or raise concerns. (We also run a number of regional events in support of e-safety so be sure to keep an eye out for those).
9. Provide opportunities for feedback, support and further guidance to staff.
10. Build in time to monitor the impact of your e-safety measures and respond accordingly.
Should you require any help or guidance with regards to safeguarding and specifically e-safety within your organisation, please don’t hesitate to contact Jason, our Learning Technologist. He is also currently developing a number of resources to further support you in this area so watch this space for more...!
__________________
Related E-Safety links:
* Next Generation Learning Safeguarding learners – a useful website chock full of E-safety knowledge and skills for keeping children and young people safe online
* This e-safety Moodle course from the RSC East Midlands - aims to introduce tutors/managers to the issues involved in making information technology safe for learners.
* JISC Legal’s’ E-safety Theme - Legal Guidance for ICT Use in Education
* E-Safety pages and case studies on the Excellence Gateway: Safeguarding FE learners in a digital world
Thanks to Kirsty for the link.
(E-Safety logo courtesy of E2BN)
