JISC

University of Bolton

The Project will  develop and pilot a 10 credit level 4 module work-based learning "Working in Groups" for Multi-professional teams working in the field of Regional Regeneration. A key aim of the project is to develop good practice that will deployed extensively by HE providers throughout Greater Manchester working collaboratively to provide Work-based and Work-related Learning to meet the needs of eight key sectors.

University of Central Lancashire  

ADAPT: Approaches to the Delivery of Anatomy and Physiology Teaching 

This project will redevelop an existing undergraduate module at level 1 that introduces human biology, anatomy and physiology to paramedic students. The module will undergo internal quality assurance and be delivered September 2009 over two semesters. The module design will be based upon structured deployment of reusable and repurposed learning materials sourced externally (65%) and internally (35%) to provide knowledge and information about normal functioning of the human body and enable problem based and solution focused learning.

University of Central Lancashire  

This project will develop an interactive e-based module which will allow students across a range of science disciplines to both understand and also self-test their knowledge of the processes that occur to generate and relay pain stimuli around the body. This module will also allow the students to interact with e-learning material and also to undertake a degree of self testing. This module will subsequently be made re-available to the education community as 'learning objects'. These will be customisable by staff to match the academic requirements of students from a range of levels and disciplines.

University of Coventry

 This project will develop a Level 200 Credit module for delivery to business and art and design students in a variety of technology enhanced delivery modes including online and blended formats. The module will be visually rich and promote collaborative working among students. The outputs will include the module itself and, at finer level of granularity, a collection of related IMS/SCORM compliant learning objects and the learning design. The project will use LPP tools to structure and guide module development.

University of Coventry 

To reuse existing external learning resources and produce associated new learning resources to support mathematics learning for science-based subjects; to trial out these resources in sigma’s Proactive Teaching Programme; and to investigate making these resources available to the UK HE sector via existing websites associated with sigma.

Edge Hill University

This project aims to redevelop an existing Professional Development week, 15 credit, level 6 module, CPD304: Dyslexia and Specific Learning Difficulties (SpLD) in Higher Education – Support Issues. It will involve the repurposing of objects (drawn from Jorum and other credible sector sources) related to themes which are germane to learning support, such as writing, reading and memory, and (providing materials to bridge a current gap) the generation of new multimedia objects which focus on learners’ narratives relating to such themes.

Heythrop College, University of London

To produce two 15-credit technology-enhanced modules in Research Methods & Statistics in Psychology which are approved to run in the academic year 2008/2009. The modules to be produced are innovative in a number of ways, including particularly the use of MiMeG as a means of exploring multimedia datasets, the use of the UK Data Archive in teaching, and not just research, and the use of an external virtual online laboratory providing data to be processed locally by the learning objects within the module itself. This project is also hoped to provide a foundation for a further innovative step by providing one half of an integrated approach to introducing psychology at undergraduate level which integrates research methods and psychological theory and content through connected learning objects in different courses.

University of Hull

The project will develop a new module as part of the Post-Graduate Certificate in Education in Higher Education. It will be targeted at staff within the University of Hull and will enable them to use, re-use and share digital content. In doing so it is envisaged staff will be more inclined to use such resources in their teaching and will encourage students themselves to use such resources as part of their assessed work. In this way the module will lever additional support for the deployment of digital resources in teaching and learning in Higher Education.

Leeds Metropolitan University

This project will use initial diagnostics to target a series of appropriate repackaged content towards students taking a module in Applied Technology and Finance in the first weeks of their first year of study. This tackles a number of difficult areas including a diverse set of students from the Hospitality, Leisure Sport and Tourism Subject area for whom this module is regarded with considerable trepidation. Regular diagnostic testing will ensure students are on target and give them an early indication of the level worthiness of their first efforts in H.E.

Manchester Metropolitan University

The Project will identify and catalogue external e-learning material and use criteria based on current research to select interactive, elaborative, and constructivist learning objects that add value to the learning process within Manchester Metropolitan University’s Computer Science Department’s core Level 1 unit, Introduction to Multimedia and the WWW.  Materials will be integrated into a Learning Design (LD) in collaboration with Liverpool Hope University, and blended with other learning and teaching approaches. The reaggregation process will be pedagogically-driven, and the Project will explore the pedagogical, strategic and technical issues around and obstacles to the effective uptake of reusable content.

St George's University of London

Virtual Patients (VPs) are invaluable resources as tools to develop skills in competency training, where there are decisions, actions and processes to record or mimic. They are very expensive to produce, and those institutions which can make them, are often reluctant to share. This project proposes to repurpose VPs constructed by the University of Heidelberg, embed the repurposed VPs within an appropriately accredited Paediatric module at St George’s University of London, and also make them available to the wider community.

TALL, Oxford University

This project will develop ‘An introduction to the earliest English literature’ online worth 10 CATS points at undergraduate level 1. The 10-week course, which will also include an induction unit for students embarking on online learning, will be delivered as part of for Continuing Education’s accredited weekly class programme.  Mosaic will also develop processes, guidelines and resources to help future online courses to increase their reuse of existing materials and will work with JISC to learning materials and other outputs of the project with the wider HE community.

Thames Valley University

This project will develop further the impact and reach of Re-usable Learning Objects across the TVU curriculum. It seeks to re-purpose learning objects into an existing module in alignment with: a module design demonstrated to improve and accelerate learning gain of students in skill areas of academic competence and critical enquiry; a coherent set of learning activities designed to be transferable between levels and Subject areas; a Faculty Blended Learning strategy addressing embedded, pedagogically sound, student e-learning experiences at programme level; a University commitment to embedding blended learning across the studentexperience and in support of achievement and retention.

University of the West of England

This project will develop a 10 credit, level M, online "Research Methods" module. The module is currently taught face-to-face as part of the MSc Financial Management programme. However during the academic year 2008/2009, the programme will be delivered entirely distance to international students resident in their home country.

University of Worcester

This project will build on work at the University of Worcester, Loughborough University and Imperial College London. The project team aim to design and deliver a study and information literacy skills module that can be delivered in a blended learning environment.  The module will take students on an information journey, from the conceptualisation of a problem, to finding, synthesising and presenting information back to others. The module will support learners within the HE community from the beginning of their assessment process to the end. The project also aims to illustrate to colleagues within and without their institutions how material can be sourced quickly from learning repositories and customised to meet the needs of institutions.

The broad aim of the ReCITE project is to reuse materials created by the Wales e-Training Network (WETN), as part of an on-line Foundation Degree in e-Commerce, in three different curriculum areas and by three different institutions.