Planning and evaluating e-Learning practice workshops
A series of regional workshops from the JISC e-Learning and Pedagogy programme in partnership with the Higher Education Academy.
Aims
These workshops are aimed at advanced practitioners, e-learning champions, staff developers and other people supporting effective practice with e-learning. They are intended to develop the community’s skills and understanding in the area of pedagogic design. They are not an introduction to e-learning for general academic staff, and will not involve any skills training.
Success of JISC’s recent Effective Practice with e-Learning guide indicates that there is a widespread demand for expertise in planning and evaluating e-learning. The workshops will enable participants to try out tools and resources developed by the JISC’s e-Learning and Pedagogy programme, and to consider how these could be used in their own work – for example to support other practitioners. Participants will also be encouraged to capture instances of effective practice, using templates and examples provided, to contribute to our shared understanding in this area.
Workshop materials will be available to all participants to be adapted and cascaded to their own communities. The workshops will be highly interactive. Participants will use tools, test models, and provide feedback to help further develop and adapt the materials. Consultation with participants will be used to inform the JISC e-Learning programme and the Higher Education Academy, about effective practice in different communities, and about practitioners’ needs.
Audience
Participants will be working in a role that enables them to influence and support other practitioners in their use of e-learning, for example: staff and key contacts in the Academy Subject Centres; staff and educational developers with an e-learning role; e-learning champions; heads of e-learning; ILT Champions and other key contacts of the JISC RSCs; staff involved in CETLs, FDTL projects and other JISC projects and networks.
Outcomes
The workshops will:
- establish principles of effective ‘design for learning’, based on findings of the e-learning and pedagogy programme
- introduce participants to the use of planning and evaluation tools
- discuss the usability of these materials, including ways in which they could be adapted for different communities and interests
- share ideas for embedding the materials in participants’ own communities of practice and in their own contexts of activity
- create an informal network of representatives to cascade the tools to practitioners, test the tools and models in use, and help in the production and sharing of case studies
Workshop programme
One day workshop with lunch provided, free of charge to participants, in venues within main regional learning centres catering for between 25 and 50 participants. A draft workshop programme is available.
Workshop materials
All the materials from the workshops are freely available to download. We would like to encourage institutions to use these materials in their institution/organisation's staff development and CPD activities.
Booking information
21 February, 2006 Aston Lakeside Suite, Birmingham. The booking form for this event is now closed. If you have any queries relating to your booking, please contact: Rachel Pitman.
Further information
See for further information on the Higher Education Academy.
For further information about these events please contact Sarah Knight or Rachel Pitman.