JISC e-Learning Innovation Programme: Activity Areas
The Tangible Benefits of e-Learning work was funded by the JISC Learning and Teaching Committee through its e-Learning Programme within the JISC Innovation group.
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JISC's Innovation group leads activities that support core themes in the JISC strategy through innovation programmes and initiatives. The Group works closely with colleges and universities to carry out action research, and develop advice and guidance, products and services. One of the Group's key roles is to direct and manage innovation programmes and initiatives that result in:
- enhanced capacity, knowledge and skills to enable positive and informed change in the sector (through piloting new technologies and approaches)
- guidance to the sector on 'best practice' models for using technology that can be used at departmental, institutional, regional or national levels
- strategic leadership to the sector and other bodies in specialist areas and to influence national and international agendas
- knowledge and experience as a basis for future funding decisions for the JISC and its sub-committees
- new or enhanced services, infrastructure, standards or applications that may be used at departmental, institutional, regional or national levels
The e-Learning Programme consists of five activity areas, reflecting issues that have been identified as priorities by the community, and by the Government's e-Learning strategies.
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A briefing paper and publication summarise the findings of the Tangible Benefits work.
These areas vary in their maturity, both in terms of how they are understood, and the stability of the technology and standards that have been developed at this stage. The programme focuses innovation work in these areas, and in the process identifies priorities, builds on work that has already taken place, and supports future planning activities.
Under the Tangible Benefits work, 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 collection of case studies here are the outcomes of that investigation.
As well as being able to search the case studies by institution, by section and by their mapping to Higher Education Academy Subject Centres, the list of 'illustrates' attributes to the right include reference to four of the five e-Learning Programme activity areas. The filtered list of case studies relevant to these areas can also be accessed by the links below or alternatively you can download the printable version.
The five activity areas are:
e-Administration for Learning and Teaching
