New teaching and learning case studies - now online!

"Working with diverse groups of learners in the digital age" is a series of case studies which can be downloaded here at the ESCalate website.  Led by Julie Hughes and Warren Kidd, 25 authors contributed to the discussion of the use of technology in teaching and learning.

View and download the case studies here:

http://escalate.ac.uk/digitalage

This publication and its wider project draw upon several years of ESCalate activity focusing upon the development of learning and teaching in relation to the use of technology. Practitioner-focused workshops, held over the past 3 years, have proved successful in the dissemination of innovative use of emergent technologies and pedagogies in education subjects. Increasingly the presenters and audiences for these events were drawn from wider subject and curriculum areas. This particular project builds upon 2 years of workshops and seeks to collect and disseminate innovative activity in Education subject areas. The project was keen to:

• encourage new contributors to ESCalate;
• elicit 'stories' from HE teachers about their use of technology/e-learning to support diverse groups of learners;
• particularly encourage HE teachers who have not engaged with the ESCalate e-learning community previously - particularly HE in FE and Education Studies colleagues;
• collate and disseminate the case studies to workshop and wider audiences via workshop resources/presentations and an electronic publication;
• provide networking opportunities at face-to-face events;
• encourage and inspire other HE teachers to experiment and take risks with e-learning - the case study template will provide detailed instructions and pedagogic principles.