Learning Technologies/e-Learning
"E-learning is fundamentally about learning and not about technology. Strategic development of e-learning should be based on the needs and demands of learners and the quality of their educational experience."
Effective Practice with E-Learning: A Good Practice Guide in Designing for Learning JISC (2004:9)
Why e-learning?
Varous information and communications technologies such as the virtual learning environment Blackboard can be used by lecturers to promote accessibility to, and flexibility of curriculum provision and cater for the more sophisticated technology expectations and an increasingly diverse and growing student population. This can take the form of using on line resources to support on-campus face to face interaction between students and teachers or providing online courses within a totally distance learning mode of interaction.
Strategy
TopTraining and Support
- Learning Technologies Staff Development
Learning technologies staff development is organised and facilitated collaboratively between the Education Development Unit and the Learning Technologies Centre. It has been designed to support the implementation of the Learning Technologies Strategy and aims to develop knowledge of, and skills in the use of Blackboard within an overall pedagogically focused context. - Learning Technologies External Events
Information about external development events and conferences related to learning technologies. - University of Salford Learning Technologies Centre
Provides support to staff of the university, the LTC mission statement is 'to provide a focus of credible advice and support for those staff wishing to develop and apply learning technologies for the promotion of flexible learning'. - Learning Technology Fellows
The Learning Technology Fellows provide faculty level support and guidance in the use of learning technologies. - Education Development Unit
Provides support and guidance on all aspects of curriculum innovation and development. To discuss issues specifically related to the pedagogy of learning technologies and e-learning please contact Bernard Lisewski on ext 52573. - Technologies supported by the University of Salford
Technologies include Blackboard, QMark Perception, streaming media and Nuggets. - Supporting Sustainable e-Learning
The Academy Forum on Sustainable e-Learning (SSeLF) is open to staff and educational developers within the UK HE and FE communities. This forum aims to bring together staff and educational developers as well as learning technologists from the UK HE and FE communities. - Discussion lists
A wide range of e-learning related discussion lists are available through JISCmail.
Guides to Learning Technologies and e-Learning
- Effective Practice with e-Learning - a good practice guide in designing for learning
The guide 'Effective Practice with e-Learning' is built around a sequence of ten case studies illustrating practitioners' solutions to day-to-day challenges. - e-Learning Series
The LTSN Generic Centre e-learning guides were the first fully comprehensive guides on e-learning aimed at specific audiences. There are fives guides in total covering Senior Managers, Heads of Department, Teaching Staff, Learning Technologists and Support Staff. - LEAP Case Studies
These case studies look at how different pedagogies are being employed across different virtual learning environments. - e-Learning Starter Guides
The LTSN Generic Centre and ALT have produced a series of starter guides addressing issues for new lecturers and learning technologists on how to use existing tools within their roles.- Using the WWW for Learning and Teaching
- Integrating online learning into your course
- Virtual Learning Environments
- Computer Assisted Assessment
- Computer-mediated Conferencing
- Evaluating Learning Technology Resources
- Approaches to evaluating the effect of ICT on student learning
- Streaming Audio and Video for Course Design
- Working Models for Designing Online Courses and Materials
This guide to designing online courses and materials was developed for learning technologists. The guides workings through various stepsing in course and material development from identifying the team to evaluating the finished products. - Designing to Learning and Learning to Design
This guide to instructional design is aimed learning technologists and looks the strategies which might be employed when developing technology-based learning material and integrating that material into the appropriate educational environment. - e-Moderating
- Effective Use of VLE's: Introduction to VLE's
This JISC infoNET infoKit aims to enable tutors to make informed decisions, based on sound educational principles, about the use of technology in their teaching and their students' learning when using a VLE. - Access All Areas: disability, technology and learning
This publication draws on the experiences of practitioners from a wide range of colleges, universities and JISC services to provide pragmatic advice on how to support disabled students when accessing technology and, perhaps more importantly, when accessing learning through technology.
Publications
- Joyce, P. and Lisewski, B. (2003) On reification: a reinterpretation
of designed and emergent practice - a reply, Alt-J - Association
for Learning Technology Journal, 11, 64-66(3).
- Lisewski, B. and Joyce, P. (2003) Examining the five-stage e-moderating
model: designed and emergent practice in the learning technology profession,
Alt-J - Association for Learning Technology Journal, 11, 55-66(12).
- Lisewski,
B. (2004) Implementing a learning technology strategy: top-down
strategy meets bottom-up culture, Alt-J - Association for Learning
Technology Journal, 12, 175-188(14).
Research
- e-Learning Research Centre
This website provides details of publications, events, seminar programmes and other news items relating to the eLRC and of interest to the e-learning community generally. - Education in a Changing Environment Conference Proceedings
- Teaching and Learning Quality Improvement Scheme (TLQIS) Projects