Bid writing for e-Learning projects, 2nd December 2008

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Bid writing for e-Learning projects


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Facilitators details

Presentations and Workshop Resources

Please find workshop summaries and their related resources below:


Workshop 1: Just four things (Terry Loane, DawsonLoane)

Workshop based around the idea that there are only four things you need to do in order to write a successful bid for project funding - work out what the funder wants, have a good idea, answer the questions and tell a clear story!

Terry Loane's Presentation: Media:TerryLoaneBidWriting.ppt


Workshop 2: Lessons from Bidding and Reviewing (John Traxler, The Learning Lab)

Bidding is probably a mixture of art and science; hard work and inspiration. John’s presentation draws on experience of national and international bids over 20 years, of both writing them and reviewing them. His session attempted to analyse these experiences and offer some basic tools, lists and suggestions.



Workshop 3: Project Management for the Bid and After (Clive Alderson, JISC)

This session looks at JISC InfoNet’s Project Management methodology and what you need to say in a bid so that funders know you will have a structured approach to delivering the project. Repeated during the afternoon.


Presentation - Bidding Issues, Lessons Learned (Lennox Adams & Elizabeth Johnson, Royal National College)

Workshop 1: Access to funds (Mary Moss – NIACE)

Workshop discussing access to funds from the Adult and Community Learning perspective.

(Presentation to follow)


Workshop 2: “Why you?” (Professor Mark Stiles)

This workshop will dwell on the issues to address when considering why a funder should choose you over another bid proposing to do the same thing.


Professor Mark Stile's Presentation, "Why you? Making your Bid Credible": Media:MarkStilesPresentation.ppt‎

Professor Mark Stile's Top tips - What to do and not to do! Media:Bidding-DOs_and_DONTs.pdf

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Other Supporting Resources including current funds

Please find below a number of websites that support the area of Bid Writing. We will continue to update this list regularly. Please let us know if you have any additions you would be happy to share.


This guide to bidding for JISC funding is aimed at individuals and institutions responding to JISC’s invitations to tender or call for proposals, particularly for anyone unfamiliar with the process and the criteria for awarding funds. Access their project management guide here.



RSC Northwest has produced a tool to provide guidance on bid writing. The guidance is based on discussions between partner organisations, conferences, workshops and forums that included contributions from trainers, practitioners, funders, advisors, managers, inspectors and others.

An analysis of recent unsuccessful bids from a bidding round which highlighted a number of key problem areas with applications. It noted such things as weak partnerships, no links to local strategy and/or plans, project “has been done before” etc. A useful checklist to go through to make sure your bid doesn’t fall into any these traps.

The Association of Learning Providers (ALP) recently set up a ‘provider matching service’ for work based learning providers wishing to work in a consortium as part of their applications for Learner Innovation Grant funding. This is useful as the emphasis in recent rounds of funding has been on working together making this a useful tool for finding possible working partners.

  • MEDEV subject centre has two useful bid writing guides

http://www.medev.ac.uk/resources/fundops/guide http://www.medev.ac.uk/resources/fundops/checklist . .

Discussion lists and forums

A forum for ILT Managers and practitioners based within learning providers in the West Midlands region.

A forum discussion was previously set up on the Quality Improvement Agency’s Excellence Gateway to support providers through the bidding and delivery phases of the Learner Innovation Grant projects.

The Innovate website has a number of discussion groups that focus on the use of technology in work based learning provision. These are a good place for exploring ideas for future technology related projects.

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Blogs and Further Reading

Resources and articles relating to Bid Writing and announcing various funding streams will occasionally feature on RSC West Midlands Adviser's blogs.

  • Wobble (by Theresa Welch) regularly features funding opportunities and support for technology related projects within the work based learning sector. It also offers a free subscription service enabling you to conveniently receive your own updates by email.


  • Kevin Brace's Gabber blog focusses on issues relating to the use of VLEs in Higher Education, learning and teaching, ePortfolios, plagiarism detection, and blended learning. If you're looking for project opportunities, its worth referring to Gabber for an idea of what's currently happening in these areas.
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