Showcase
As well as the main sessions, there was also an e-Learning Showcase area which offered delegates an opportunity to browse a selection of recent and innovative work from projects in the JISC e-Learning Programme, the JISC Advisory Services and the JISC Regional Support Centres.
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VLEs are not just for objects, they are for learning as well! by Kevin Brace |
We feel that these uses of a VLE has allowed West Midlands practitioners to experience and better understand the potential of VLEs to promote active and engaging learning experiences for their students. Following such online events, Kevin Brace has attempted to define a set of models for such VLE use, with the help and inspiration of e-learning practitioner Helen Walmsley.
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Using the DiAL-e Framework to design engaging activities for learners with digital archives by Kevin Burden and Simon Atkinson |
Over the past two years staff from the University of Hull have developed an innovative framework to enable practitioners to maximise their use of digital archives in teaching and learning. The framework (Digital Artefacts for Learner Engagement – DiAL-e) is at the heart of several projects developed for the JISC to illustrate how these media rich resources can be most effectively utilised. Video and other materials (wiki) |
| The SkillClouds project: an overview by John Davies, Carol Shergold and Stuart Lamour |
This short paper summarises the work undertaken to date on the JISC-funded SkillClouds project. The project is investigating whether the principles of tagging and tag clouds can help students' engagement with the skills (e.g. critical thinking, presentation, problem-solving) they develop whilst at university.
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| Developing a visual map of our Learners' Experiences by Ruth Hyde |
The STROLL project has used concept maps to group quotes from large amounts of qualitative data from learners, looking at students' reflections on the following questions:
- How do learners experience change through their learning journey?
- How do students use and make choices about their time?
- How do students use e-learning tools to support their learning?
- How do students use their personal technologies?
The concept maps are in the form of jpg files.
- Figure 1 shows a random selection of the students' quotes
- Figures 2a and 2b show the quotes organised into themes on the maps, to support easier analysis and understanding of the students' reflections
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| Can we achieve active, social and lifelong learning through the promotion and support of personal learning environments in Higher Education? by Alice Jones |
This poster aims to demonstrate some of the issues (technical and pedagogical) that we envisage and have encountered on the project so far in trying to integrate user owned technologies with institutionally owned systems at the University of Chester.
Poster (PDF) |
| Showcasing JISC Advisory Services Resources by Jacquie Kelly |
JISC and the Advisory Services have been looking at ways to be more agile and flexible to respond to the changing needs and demands of the further and higher education communities. The outcome of this review is to create a new company called JISC Services. JISC infoNet, JISC Legal, JISC TechDis, Netskills, Procureweb and TASI are coming together to create JISC Services which will formally come into existence on 1 August 2009. This portal page pulls together some key resources and links to the various services. |
| Reusing & Repurposing Materials for Learning in a Digital Age: An Example from Psychology by Jon Loose |
This paper explores the experience of the JISC funded 'PSYCHE' project, which is constructing technology-enhanced modules for teaching research methods and statistics in psychology by reusing and repurposing materials constructed previously. The paper looks at the challenges involved in reusing and repurposing materials from a diversity of sources.
Jon's presentation (Wordpress blog) |
| Different views on diverse content: experiments in using RSS feeds from the JISC Design for Learning Programme by Sheila MacNeill |
A key challenge for the support team for the JISC Design for Learning programme was finding a solution that provided a single, coherent view of the diverse set of resources produced by all the projects. These ranged from IMS Learning Design compliant packages to text based case studies to images of design patterns. This showcase highlights a number of experiments exploiting RSS feeds to create different types of representations of the programme outputs. Links:
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| The Life Cycle of a Re-usable Learning Object by Peter Reed |
This animated presentation demonstrates the layers of complexity that the ReForm Project has experienced around locating, re-using and re-purposing material for online teaching and learning . Animated presentation |
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Listening to learners: interactive case studies by Gemma Towle and Rob Howe |
The JISC/HEFCE funded E4L project (E-learning for Learners) has been investigating learners' opinions and experiences about e-learning from adult and community learning, further and higher education; particularly three core themes of their transitional periods, use of shadow technologies and light bulb moments. PowerPoint presentation |
