UDOL2011

Just a quick reminder about the value of good navigation

Great blog post from Grainne! In terms of PDP these are the literacies that will help our students to suceed at work, where we have the option to change the focus of traditional PDP and include moe of the digital literacies - we should - or should we?

This is an update on a video produced in 2008 - Makes you think!!

At our University, the Faculty of Health, Social Care and Education has delivered a variety of undergraduate and postgraduate courses via flexible distance learning for many years. Distance learning can be a lonely experience for students who may feel isolated and unsupported. However e-learning provides an opportunity to use technology to motivate students to interact with each other and their tutors and work together towards common goals. If done properly, this provides distance learners specifically with a sense of learning within a community and therefore enables them to learn more effectively. Five years ago, the Faculty of Health, Social Care and Education started using a virtual learning environment (VLE) to expand and develop our materials and provide a variety of resources to support our students. In the postgraduate Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) course this was further developed by implementing several collaborative learning initiatives where students work together online. The purpose of this was to attempt to improve the student experience of distance learning. The aim of this review is to analyze the effectiveness of three online collaborative tools used in the postgraduate distance learning MRI course and make recommendations for the implementation of similar initiatives throughout health care education.

Research articles produced by EDEN

European Distance Educational Network - good source of research

Very useful report detailing the elearning requirements of businesses

Great set of resources from an online learning programme for researchers at Warwick

Amusing video but gets the point across. You will need the subtitles though unless you can speak Norwegian

This is a really goodisualisation of the use of technologies in relation to the learning process. http://www2.smumn.edu/deptpages/~instructtech/lol/laurillard/