Funding programme: Learning and Teaching (5/99) programme
The following resources have been funded by the Learning and Teaching
programme. The aim of the programme was to develop a wide range of
electronic content and to adapt it directly for use in learning and
teaching.
The programme has now been completed and has created a wealth of
resources, most of which are freely available to further and higher
education institutions. Most of the resources can be accessed through the
web.
This guide is intended to supplement the JISC Resource Guides which offer
an overview of all JISC and other key resources and services.
Artworld
Artworld provides an up-to-date overview of each subject in the teaching of
world art with discussion material and, in some cases, insights into
current debates and controversies. Each module contains background
information, summarising different approaches to the material, with
up-to-date bibliographies, maps, timelines and numerous links to other
relevant pictorial and museum resources. The teaching modules are backed up
by a comprehensive database of images from the cultures represented in the
museum collections at the Oriental Museum, University of Durham, and the
Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia. Interactive
resources have been provided in order to enable users to adapt content to
their own teaching. Contributions can be made in the form of appended texts
on any page. There are also facilities to create mini-galleries by
assembling collections of images and texts. These may be used as the basis
for lectures, seminar presentations or essays. There are also templates for
questionnaires which may be customised as resources for interactive
teaching or for submission of work for marking.
Access conditions: Freely available
Contact details: Veronica Sekules Tel: 01603 593199 / 592465 or
456161 v.sekules@uea.ac.uk
http://artworld.uea.ac.uk
Click and Go Video
Imagine using a technology that could capture students' attention,
engage them and leave them with a richer, more meaningful and vivid
learning experience. The use of streaming digital video and audio to
support web-based learning resources is rapidly becoming an attractive
option for many educators. This technology not only provides on-demand
access and opportunities for student interaction, but can also enhance
teaching practice to open up new ways of representing, delivering and
sharing a subject discipline. Through its use, teachers can visualise a
process or show how something works, moves or performs live, without the
need to rely on purely text-based forms. They can enable their students to
'be there', without the constraints of time, space and safety.
Video Streaming: A Guide for Educational Development, developed by the
Click and Go Video team, is the ideal beginners' guide to this exciting
new area.
Access conditions: Freely available
Contact details: Clive Young Tel: 0141 331 8434 clive.young@gcal.ac.uk
http://www.clickandgovideo.ac.uk/
Crafts Study Centre
The Crafts Study Centre attempts to redress the paucity of records about
the crafts (across the museum sector and within higher education
institutions), creating easy access to rich visual collections, on occasion
of materials rarely, and sometimes never, seen in the public domain. The
Crafts Study Centre has developed an international reputation as a unique
collection and archive of modern British crafts, embracing ceramics,
textiles, calligraphy and wood, together with reference books, documents,
photographs and craftspeople's working notes. High-quality images
capture details of the makers' techniques and use of materials. These
images, together with associated information and six learning and teaching
modules, will further an understanding and appreciation of the link between
the historic collections of the Crafts Study Centre and new developments in
the crafts. The resource will advance independent learning and add
substantively to the teaching of this subject area.
Access conditions: Freely available
Contact details: Simon Olding Tel: 01252 892953 solding@surrart.ac.uk
http://www.craftscentre.surrart.ac.uk
Designing Britain 1945-1975: The visual experience of post-war society
Designing Britain enhances access to the extensive Design Archives at the
Faculty of Arts and Architecture, University of Brighton, and other
associated collections. The resource explores the history of British
post-war design, including product design, sculpture, fashion and the
crafts. Tutors and students can engage with this material via seven
e-learning modules. Written by subject-specialist lecturers, and based on
their own teaching experiences, the modules comprise essays, assignments
and reading lists. Moreover, they offer access to approximately 800
high-quality images of archival material.
Access conditions: Freely available
Contact details: Catherine Moriarty Tel: 01273 643219 dhrc@brighton.ac.uk
http://www.designingbritain.org
http://vads.ahds.ac.uk/
Digital Egypt for Universities
Digital Egypt for Universities is an online resource based at University
College London. It was developed jointly by the Petrie Museum of Egyptian
Archaeology, the Institute of Archaeology, and the Centre for Advanced
Spatial Analysis. In over 3,000 web pages, learners are able to explore the
objects and material cultural content from a variety of aspects. Although
the material is historical (ancient Egypt, prehistory, Hellenistic and
Roman Egypt, and Islamic periods), the site is intended to promote
multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary learning. Audio extracts and a
series of 3-D virtual reality models created for the project facilitate a
pluralised approach to interacting with historical data, and the site
offers accompanying learning and teaching materials.
Access conditions: Freely available
Contact details: Stephen Quirke Tel: 020 7679 2882 s.quirke@ucl.ac.uk
http://www.digitalegypt.ucl.ac.uk
Digital Image Resource for the practical study of Woven and Printed
Textiles
The rich and stimulating collection of world textiles at the Surrey
Institute of Art and Design, University College, has supported the
practical study of woven and printed textiles for over 40 years. Now, in a
digital form, the resource illustrates the visual and tactile subtleties of
textiles in a two-dimensional environment. Each image has been carefully
created to describe the particular qualities of its subject: expressing the
fold and drape of a textile; communicating the fibre, structure and finish
of woven cloths; and illustrating pattern, repeat and scale in printed
fabrics. This unique resource enables students to closely observe and
analyse textiles and to deepen their understanding of the factors
influencing textile design and production. The resource will be of major
interest to practitioners and historians in the FE and HE sectors, and in
cross-referencing other museum and gallery collections.
Access conditions: Freely available
Contact details: Linda Brassington Tel: 01252 892 751 lbrassington@surrart.ac.uk
http://vads.ahds.ac.uk
FILTER - Focusing Images for Learning and Teaching, an Enriched Resource
The FILTER project has produced a web site and database containing useful
examples and resources for anyone wishing to use digital images in learning
and teaching. The primary resource is a database containing more than
two-dozen examples of image-based learning and teaching resources and
hundreds of digital images. The exemplars range from PowerPoint
presentations and web sites to multimedia and interactive tutorials. These
have all been created by practising lecturers, designed for use in their
own contexts with the intention that they be
re-used and adapted for use in other contexts and subject areas. To enable
and support materials creation, each exemplar is accompanied by a case
study and
'how-to' guide. The database is fully searchable by image, subject
area and tutorial type, so if, for example, the user wishes to see how
images are used to teach geography, he or she could keyword search on
'geography', by type of image (eg 'aerial maps'), or by
delivery method (eg 'web tutorial'). The database is also
browsable. The images, like all materials in the FILTER database, are free
for educational use and come with complete metadata records and creation
history.
Access conditions: Freely available
Contact details: Jill Evans Tel: 0117 928 7164 filter-info@bristol.ac.uk
http://www.filter.ac.uk/
fineart.ac.uk
The National Fine Art Education Digital Collection is a prototype for a
national web-based collection of work by staff and students of UK higher
education institutions who have made a significant contribution to UK fine
art education through practice. The site makes available online an initial
selection of 230-plus works by more than 150 artists who have studied and
taught fine art in the UK, together with supporting information. The
selection of works covers the period from the inception of British art
schools in the 1850s through to the present day and includes work from many
important figures in British art such as Henry Moore, Bridget Riley and
Richard Hamilton. Timelines and maps provide visual access points to the
still images, films, work descriptions and artists' biographies that
enrich this unique resource. When grown to full size, fineart.ac.uk will
offer an unrivalled source both for teaching and research purposes, and for
use in planning exhibitions, conferences and publications relating to
higher education and fine art.
Access conditions: Freely available
Contact details: Polly Christie Tel: 01252 892807 polly@vads.ahds.ac.uk
HERON
HERON provides a complete copyright-clearance and document-supply service,
including digitisation and paper coursepacks where necessary, to academic
institutions wishing to provide online access to learning materials.
Access conditions: Institutional subscription required
Contact details: Tel: 01865 799133 heron@ingenta.com
http://www.heron.ingenta.com/
INFORMS/INHALE
The INFORMS/INHALE database is a pool of over 400 interactive, bite-sized,
online information skills units for students within all the main subject
areas taught in further and higher education institutions. A unique aspect
of the materials is that they are based on searching LIVE quality
information databases that lecturers now expect their students to use to
gather information for course assignments. Accessible versions for the
visually impaired (that may also be customised) are automatically generated
when a new unit is written. The INFORMS/INHALE database resources have been
used in face-to-face teaching sessions as well as linked into different
VLEs and institutional web sites.
Access conditions: Freely available
Contact details: Jennifer Brook j.a.brook@hud.ac.uk
http://inhale.hud.ac.uk/
Lemur
Lemur is a web-mounted database of c.3,500 items, each with at least one
image. Material is mainly drawn from the collections of The Marischal
Museum, supplemented by items from other University of Aberdeen
collections.
While the collection is diverse, there are particular strengths in:
Scottish archaeology, north-east Scottish folk life, non-Western
ethnography, Egyptology, Scottish paintings, ancient Greek coins and pots,
scientific instruments, and ethnographic photographs. A virtual version of
the Marischal Museum, showing views of all cases, information about all
objects, QTVR panoramas and active plans, is also available, and is of
particular relevance to museum studies. There are links to the database
entries for all objects on display.
Access conditions: Freely available to all via the web: www.abdn.ac.uk/virtualmuseum
Contact details: Neil Curtis Tel: 01224 274304 neil.curtis@abdn.ac.uk
PATOIS - Publications and Archives in Teaching Online Information Sources
The Publications and Archives in Teaching Online Information Sources
(PATOIS) resource based at the Archaeology Data Service has developed four
tutorial packs to introduce students to the electronic analysis and use of
primary archaeological data resources: monument inventories, excavation
archives, research reports and multidisciplinary datasets.
One of the learning and teaching packages, for example, examines the
excavation of the burial vault at Christ Church, Spitalfields crypt,
allowing users to explore life and death in 18th- and 19th-century London.
It introduces the user to the records from those excavations, to the
subsequent research by historians and medical scientists, and the issues
surrounding the excavation of human remains. PATOIS was developed with
teaching staff in a wide number of universities in the UK, and has been
used in a large number of institutions and educational settings. These
include the universities of Bristol, Bradford, Birmingham, Cambridge,
Glasgow, York, Reading, Southampton and University College London, where
the tutorials have been embedded within existing curricula. They have also
been used to supplement course materials in A-level Archaeology, as taught
in further education.
Access conditions: Freely available
Contact details: William Kilbride Tel: 01904 433954 wgk1@york.ac.uk
http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/project/patois/
Promoting Image Collections for Learning and Teaching in the Visual Arts
(PICTIVA)
PICTIVA commissioned a series of learning and teaching materials based on
collections held by AHDS Visual Arts. The materials aim to promote the
creative use of visual arts digital images in the learning and teaching
environment. Some of the resource titles include: "Britain in the Age
of the French Revolution", "Thomas Becket's Stained Glass
Windows at Canterbury Cathedral" and "Developing Original
Patterns from Historical Examples". The learning and teaching
materials are designed to give students access to interpretive material
based on the collections, highlighting key themes and placing them in their
wider context. The number of learning and teaching materials will continue
to grow as the AHDS Visual Arts collections expand. AHDS Visual Arts will
also deliver learning and teaching materials from other sources such as the
Designing Britain and Artworld projects. The resources will start to go
on-line in spring 2004.
Access conditions: Freely available
Contact details: Brenda Brinkley Tel: 01252 892723
brenda@vads.ahds.ac.uk
http://visualarts.ahds.ac.uk
RDN Virtual Training Suite
The RDN Virtual Training Suite offers free Internet training via a set of
61 interactive tutorials on the web. There is a tutorial for most of the
subjects taught in UK higher and further education, each offering a guide
to key Internet resources for the subject and tips for Internet searching
and critical evaluation of web sites. Tutorials are being used in taught
courses, student induction and information, and research skills classes.
They are easy to link to from VLEs and departmental web pages.
Supplementary "Resources for Teachers" are available with ideas
for use with students.
The Virtual Training Suite is just one of the resources offered by the
Resource Discovery Network (RDN), a national web service pointing to
thousands of high-quality Internet resources that can support learning,
teaching and research.
Tutorials include:
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Internet for English
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Internet for Historians
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Internet for History and Philosophy of Science
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Internet for Modern Languages
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Internet Philosopher
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Internet for Religious Studies
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Internet Theologian
Access conditions: Freely available
Contact details: Emma Place Tel: 0117 928 7183 emma.place@bristol.ac.uk
http://www.vts.rdn.ac.uk/
TRILT - Television and Radio Index for Learning and Teaching
The BUFVC's Television and Radio Index for Learning and Teaching
(TRILT) is an online database of UK broadcasts, covering over 300 channels,
including terrestrial, cable, and satellite television (with regional
variations), all national and many local radio stations.
TRILT facilitates the use of audio-visual material in learning, teaching
and research, allowing staff and students to identify television and radio
material relevant to their area of study. In many cases, TRILT indicates
sources of post-transmission copies, including the BUFVC's Off-Air
Recording Back-Up Service and online copies of radio programmes.
Transmission details for forthcoming programmes are available at least ten
days in advance, allowing users to plan their viewing and recording. TRILT
has a personalisation service enabling users to set auto-alerts to email
them when programmes relevant to their interests are coming up. In
addition, programmes selected for their value to the educational community
are enhanced with further information, such as improved descriptions,
additional keywords, bibliographies and web links.
TRILT grows by over a million records every year and, with the
incorporation of the BUFVC's Television Index database into TRILT last
year, the data span covers nine years of UK broadcasting (1995-2004:
selective 1995-2001, comprehensive 2001 onwards).
Access conditions: Available to BUFVC members using Athens
Authentication
Contact details: Marianne Open Tel: 020 7393 1501 asktrilt@bufvc.ac.uk
http://www.bufvc.ac.uk/TRILT
Virtual Departments for Minority Languages (VDML)
The VDML resource provides advice, information and examples to help
teachers create interactive, web-based language learning resources,
particularly activities using authentic on-line sources in the target
country and activities based on audio and video recordings of native
speakers. An example of how to use a virtual learning environment (in this
case, WebCT) to create a virtual department gives teachers and students
from different institutions opportunities to work together. Advice and
information about getting started and getting support, both locally and
nationally, is available for teachers who wish to share the development of
learning resources and/or collaborate across institutions. Teachers of
Danish may also benefit from some additional resources in the form of
images, audio and video interviews.
Access conditions: Freely available
Contact details: Jane Hughes Tel: 020 7679 1630 jane.hughes@ucl.ac.uk
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/epd/herdu/vdml/
Virtual Norfolk
Virtual Norfolk provides access to over a million words from over 2,000
transcribed primary source documents relating to the medieval and early
modern periods of Norfolk and Norwich (c.1200-1830). The content has been
purposely selected for use in HE teaching with a wide variety of document
types and subjects. It also includes over 400 high-resolution images of
documents from the Norfolk Record Office, many of which are available as
text transcriptions, plus hundreds of photographs and maps illustrating the
period in the city and county. Most of the content is contextualised within
teaching pathways, with additional secondary introductions and
bibliographies by specialist authors. The site has accompanying
cross-referenced biography and glossary sections and, in addition to basic
search facilities, allows the user to assemble and store their own pathways
though the material for presentation to class. The site is ideal for those
teaching the critical use of documentary evidence, and soles the notable
problem of making copious primary source material readily available to
students previously forced to rely on secondary sources. From Kett's
Rebellion to the dissenting meeting houses, Virtual Norfolk is the
convenient teaching resource for the history of Norfolk and Norwich.
Access conditions: Freely available
Contact details: Leon Doughty Tel: 01603 593937 leon.doughty@uea.ac.uk
http://virtualnorfolk.uea.ac.uk/