Wednesday, 17 October 2007
Drivers to e-learning
The reasons why University staff are considering e-learning in their courses tend to be as varied as the disciplines they come from and almost as varied as the individuals concerned.
Some of the drivers are:
- from above, e.g., Department or Faculty head: "our modules should use the VLE more";
- from students - our students are arriving more e-literate and they will want to use the kind of digital environments and resources that they are used to at school;
- assessment - can e-assessment be more effective or time-saving?
- new course - time to use some of this e-learning stuff;
- have been using the Web so far and want to find out if the VLE can be used instead;
- have heard about wikis and blogs: how can I use them?
- distance learning courses - for which there are obvious advantages in using e-learning - but what does it mean?
- competition - similar courses have more e-learning - are we falling behind?
- there is a particular topic in the course that students have trouble with - can we solve this with e-learning (answer - it might or might NOT be appropriate!)
Labels: e-learning, e-learning drivers, elearning, learning, learning and teaching
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