JISC

Making the transition involves much more than simply moving current courses to an online environment. Our advice and guidance can help you consider how to balance online and face-to-face learning, the effect on students and staff, how your online courses will be designed, delivered and promoted and how resources will be managed.

• Many of the Online Learning Task Force’s conclusions and recommendations were taken from research commissioned by JISC. Listen to our radio shows to find out more. Episode 5 discusses how to make the transition to online learning. Episode 2 draws on findings from the research to examine many of the issues around effective online learning.
• Effective practice in a digital age provides an introduction to the design and facilitation of learning using technologies, many of them online. Our infoKits can help you use Virtual Learning Environments, incorporate e-Portfolios (online records of individual achievement) into online learning, and specify, design, implement and benefit from a Managed Learning Environment. Watch our video to find out how two universities, Derby and Aston, used Second Life to provide psychology students with a rich learning expereince.
• By storing your online learning resources in your institutional digital repository, you enable them to be maintained for future use and to be accessed easily by students and staff. Our Digital repositories infoKit will guide you through the steps needed to set up a repository. It also sets out the benefits and various options for using repositories for learning materials, and the advantages of integrating them with other systems such as Virtual Learning Environments.
• Open Educational Resources are teaching and learning materials that are freely available online for everyone to use and repurpose. They can transform learning by making a wealth of material available to staff and students. Institutions have been able to raise their profiles by sharing their resources openly. Our infoKit will take you through the learning and teaching, management, legal and technical issues you will need to consider when planning to make your educational resources openly available.