Project - Encouraging Deep Learning With E-learning

The project aims at empirically establish a set of guidelines for an effective and easy-to-use web-based e-learning environment that is based around digital video material. Teachers that use the guidelines will have available successful e-learning strategies to support student learning and to cope with increasing diversity in students' background. The project focuses on how the teaching strategy and technology can be aligned successfully to support student learning.

The UK nationally endorsed aim to make Higher Education more accessible demands learning environments that are more flexible than before. Students should be able to study at the time and place convenient for them in a format appropriate to their needs. The Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) seems to answer this demand. Although software applications are available (e.g. WebCT, Blackboard) to support these environments, the teachers are left with the more challenging question of how to use these environments effectively.