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The Effective Practice Resource Exchange supports users of Effective Practice in a Digital Age by providing a supplementary suite of online recourses that can be updated and added to over time. These resources explore through different themes and viewpoints the elements that underpin effective designing for learning.

The Effective Practice Resource Exchange also offers outputs in a range of media which can support individuals in a deeper analysis and wider exploration of themes involved in designing technology-enhanced learning. These resources may also be downloaded for use in staff development contexts or for wider distribution in institutions of education.

Effective Practice in a Digital Age video clips

Four video clips highlighting examples of how institutions are adopting technology are available to view below. They are also  as Windows Media® and QuickTime® formatted files and are all supported by transcripts for users of screen readers. In addition, a short video of clips of practitioners’ voices provides personal insights into the viewpoints of individual practitioners. To play a video clip, click on the selected title.

Podcasts & Audio

JISC Podcast: Effective Practice in a Digital Age Sarah Knight (JISC e-Learning Programme Manager), Anna Peachey (Associate Teaching Fellow, COLMSCT, The Open University) & Greg Benfield, Educational Developer, Oxford Centre for Staff and Learning Development (OCSLD))

Learning with mobile technologies Andrew Williams, Director of ILT, Kingston College.

Learning in a virtual world Anna Peachey: Associate Teaching Fellow, COLMSCT, The Open University

Disrupting the norms of curriculum design Greg Benfield, Educational Developer, Oxford Centre for Staff and Learning Development (OCSLD)

University of Brighton’s pathfinder project The University of Brighton's Centre for Learning & Teaching (CLT) asked OCSLD to provide course intensive redesign sessions as part of its Higher Education Academy-funded Pathfinder project to provide fresh impetus to e-learning course design at Brighton and to develop the internal capacity to adapt and adopt the format at Brighton.

Effective Practice planner

A revised version of the 2004 Effective Practice Planner is included in Effective Practice in a Digital Age. This new version incorporates aspects of the Phoebe planning tool template. The Phoebe pedagogic planner was developed as part of the JISC e-Learning Pedagogy programme.

Download the Effective Practice planner

Extended case studies

• Building a learning community – Northumberland College 
• Engaging learners in critical reflection – University of Edinburgh 
• Making assessment a learning experience – Leeds Metropolitan University 
• Blending digital with face-to-face learning – Greenwich Community College 
• Supporting learning in authentic environments – Southampton Solent University 
• Redesigning the curriculum – University of Hertfordshire 
• Preparing students for a digital world – University of Salford
• Rethinking learning resources – Birmingham City University 
• Enabling autonomous learning – Thanet College 
• Holding tutorials in a virtual world – The Open University 

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