Planning and evaluating effective practice with e-Learning
Date 4 October 2005
Time 10:15-16:15
Venue Edinburgh Training Centre
Aims and audiences
This workshop is aimed at advanced practitioners, e-learning champions, staff developers and those with a role in supporting effective practice with e-learning within the SFC e-Learning Transformation projects. They are intended to develop the projects' skills and understanding in the area of pedagogic design. We are very pleased to have representatives from the JISC Regional Support Centres, Scottish Further Education Unit and the Higher Education Academy joining us for this event.
The success of JISC’s recent guide to Effective Practice with e-Learning shows that there is a widespread demand for expertise in planning and evaluating e-learning. These workshops will enable participants to try out tools and resources developed by the JISC’s e-Learning and Pedagogy strand, and to consider how these could be used in their own work. Participants will also be encouraged to capture instances of effective practice, using templates and examples provided, to contribute to our shared understanding in this area. Workshop materials will be available to all participants to be adapted and cascaded to their own communities. The workshops will be highly interactive. Participants will use planning tools, test models, and provide feedback to help further develop and adapt the materials.
Outcomes
The workshop will:
- establish principles of effective ‘design for learning’, based on findings of the e-learning and pedagogy programme
- introduce participants to the use of planning and evaluation tools
- discuss the usability of these materials, including ways in which they could be adapted for different communities and interests
- share ideas for embedding the materials in participants’ own communities of practice and in their own contexts of activity
- create an informal network of representatives to cascade the tools to practitioners, test the tools and models in use, and help in the production and sharing of case studies
Outline content
The workshop will cover the following issues:
- How do people learn? Three basic approaches to understanding the process of learning
- What helps people to learn more effectively? The principles of effective pedagogic design
- Designing learning activities in a technology-rich context: including introduction to the effective practice planner
- Effective practice in context: viewpoint from an experienced e-learning practitioner
- What really works? The roles of different technologies and the e-learning advantage
- Describing and evaluating practice, including introduction to an e-learning evaluator and case study template
Further information
See further information on the work of the e-Learning and Pedagogy programme
For any queries regarding this event, contact Sarah Knight, Programme Manager.