Resources: Online learning resources

13 resources found for "Online learning resources"

Silence as a trigger for support : using online learner support tools: This is an ESCalate Hot Topic article from Karen Fitzgibbon of the University of Glamorgan on using online learner support tools. Over the last eighteen months I have worked with a team of colleagues in the University of Glamorgan to develop two online learner support tools – ‘Early Days’ and ‘Study Health Check’. ‘Early Days’ was released in the first term and focused on students’ integration into their studies and offered advice and support to...
Web 2.0 and its potential impact and influence on education: This article from the ESCalate Newsletter, no. 10, Spring 2008 was written by Julie Hughes and Kevin Brace and looks at how Web 2.0 services could be used in education. The web's shift from a tool of reference, or space for telling, to a space for talking, where the emphasis is upon participation and collaboration, presents teachers with opportunities for rich e-learning. The article looks briefly at wikis, blogs, podcasts, e-portfolios, social...
ePIC and Web 2.0 tools: This is an ESCalate Sharing Ideas grant to help organise events and disseminate best practice. The ePIC (e-learning and professionalism in context) Research and Scholarship Group is based in University of Dundee's School of Education, Social Work and Community Education. The group comprises some 20 academics in the School of Education, Social Work and Community Education, all of whom have research interests in this field. ePIC plans to host an...
Learning 2.0 harnessing technology to enhance education: This is a special edition of ESCalate news edited by Eddie Gulc of the Higher Education Academy and aims to explore some of the ways technology and e-learning are enhancing the way we teach and our learners learn. This editorial gives a broad overview of recent policy developments in this area, asks whether the full potential of learning technology is being exploited by practitioners and challenges those in education to look beyond the technology...
Our heads in a tag cloud: This is an article from the ESCalate newsletter, issue 16, spring 2010. The authors write about how advances in technology are being used to teach students about sustainability. It also introduces new resources on the ESCalate Education for Sustainable Development website
Promoting employability skills within the curriculum: Presentation by Paul Chin & Dr Julie Anderson at International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning (ISSOTL) Conference Sydney, 2007. A major new resource to promote employability skills within the curriculum. ESCalate has a student page dedicated to employability, on this page you will find an online employability module on career skills and a publication to get students thinking about 'How to get the best from your Education...
V-ResORT: The V-ResORT (Virtual Resources for Online Research Training) is working with the Higher Education research training community to develop, evaluate and disseminate a new pedagogic framework for the teaching of research methodology and methods online at Masters and Doctoral level. Our specific aims are to: Develop and evaluate a multimedia online framework for the teaching of research methodology and methods at Masters and Doctorate level; Develop...
Developing and evaluating a collaborative research tool: This is an ESCalate development project led by John Grey of the University of Sunderland and completed in May 2004. This work is concerned with the deployment and evaluation of a web-based collaborative tool that aims to allow students to discuss and develop ideas from the literature. The system provides the means for users to contribute to an on-line database of bibliographic material that will be available to all other users. Users are able to...
Resources for e-learning workshops, 2008: This is a collection of resources from ESCalate's e-learning workshops held at Falmouth, Glasgow, Swansea, and Belfast, in spring 2008. It includes: presentations covering various JISC information services and detailing the work of the Regional Support Centres (RSCs); presentations about ESCalate detailing their resources and reporting on innovative e-learning developments; presentations on Videopapers, e-Portfolios, case studies of e-learning...
Making the most of PDFs: This is an article from the ESCalate newsletter, issue 11, summer 2008 by Simon Ball of TechDis. It is the fourth in a series of articles written for ESCalate, giving practical advice about how to improve aspects of practice that benefits all learners. This article covers the TechDis Accessibility Essentials Guide on making the most of PDFs that has been designed to provide step-by-step information to enable anyone creating or using Portable...
Effective Practice with e-Learning: This guide is published by JISC and can be downloaded from their Web site. The guide ‘Effective Practice with e-Learning’ is built around a sequence of ten case studies illustrating practitioners’ solutions to day-to-day challenges. This publication illustrates some of the key implications in designing for learning for practitioners in the UK post-16 sector and offers an insight into how e-learning can be integrated into established practice to...
Global Citizenship resources for teaching and learning: This section of the ESCalate Help directory for teacher educators website contains downloadable files and web links to organisations that provide real and virtual resources for Global Citizenship. It includes copies of Teaching Controversial Issues - produced by Oxfam and Get Global - Global Citizenship resources produced by a number of organisation - both available as PDF files. With thanks to Donna Hurford from the University of Cumbria for...
Supporting social bookmarking activities: This is an ESCalate Hot Topic article by Anne-Florence Dujardin of Sheffield Hallam University on how social bookmarking can help students develop a personal and confident stance towards academic texts. The issue is: how can people make use of the pedagogical affordances of social bookmarking? Advice on e-tutoring needs to be revisited, taking into account the functions offered by specific applications. Diigo, for example, isn’t just about...