Tangible Benefits of e-Learning
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Funded by the JISC Learning and Teaching Committee through the Innovation group's e-Learning Programme, JISC infoNet, the Association for Learning Technology (ALT) and the Higher Education Academy were presented with the challenge of trying to make some kind of sense of the diversity of current e-learning practice across the HE sector and to seek out evidence that technology-enhanced learning is delivering tangible benefits for learners, teachers and institutions.
The result is, we believe, a celebration of the diversity in the sector and shows the effectiveness of a range of approaches. Most importantly it shows that it is possible to address the thorny question of defining tangible benefits. The set of 37 detailed online case studies available here are supported by an accompanying publication and a briefing paper. We hope these will serve to inform, to inspire, to stimulate debate and to encourage others to participate in this form of knowledge exchange.
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A briefing paper and publication summarise the findings of the Tangible Benefits work.
The approach of creating, analysing and synthesising a set of case studies in order to answer a research question (in this case providing some evidence of the tangible benefits of e-learning) is not in itself a novel one. However the breadth of the subject matter meant that selection of suitable examples and validation of their wider relevance was not an easy matter. The online resources here have been designed to enable a 'slice and dice' approach and as such can be accessed and filtered in a variety of different ways.
As well as using the main navigation bars to enable access to case studies by institution, by section and by the main themes each case study illustrates, alternative accesses are provided below via mapping to the Higher Education Academy Subject Centres and to the JISC e-Learning Activity Areas used within the innovation programme. A full list of case studies by title is also available or you can download the printable version.
We very much welcome your feedback and thoughts on these resources and to assist in connecting discussion of these resources across the sector we would be delighted if you could reference any 'taggable' materials (for example, opinion and discussion within blogs, reference tagging within wikis and social bookmarking applications) with the tag jisctangible. Also please feel free to email us at jiscinfonet@northumbria.ac.uk.
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