Project - e-Learning Pedagogy Home Page

e-Learning Pedagogy Home Page:

"The JISC Learning and Teaching committee is funding a new e-learning Programme to run until August 2007. The overarching aim of the e-Learning Programme is to improve the quality of e-learning across the post-16 and higher eduaction sectors. The Programme focuses on four areas: e-learning and Pedagogy; Technical Framework and Tools for e-Learning; Innovation and Distributed e-Learning. This new programme offers practitioners the opportunity to be closely involved with its future development. Through extensive consultation with practitioner communities representing the post-16 sector and HE community, the activities and outcomes from the e-Learning Programme will be refined and developed accordingly. The e-Learning Programme Focus site provides further information and news about this programme.

e-Learning and Pedagogy activities are being broadly grouped under two themes, ‘Designing for Learning’ (with a practitioner planning focus on elearning) and ‘Understanding my Learning’, (with a learner reflection focus on elearning). The first theme, ‘Designing for Learning’ is exploring the process of designing, planning, sequencing or orchestrating learning tasks which may include the use of e-learning tools. Outputs from this theme will help practitioners to make effective decisions about the use of e-learning, and will help to support the effective design and use of learning design tools. A detailed overview of these activities, together with commentary on how the outcomes and recommendations are being taken forward, is contained in ‘Designing for Learning: An update on the Pedagogy strand of the JISC eLearning Programme’ .

The second theme, ‘Understanding my Learning’, is exploring the learner perspective on e-learning. This new theme of activities focuses on issues such as perception, participation, the value and meanings learners attach to e-learning opportunities, and learner differences. Outputs from this theme will help to inform all those involved in the support of student learning with ICT, and to promote the development of effective environments for learning. The background and rationale to Understanding my Learning is now available."