Author: Alison Wride, a.e.c.wride@exeter.ac.uk

JISC e-Learning Activity Area: Technology-enhanced Learning Environments

Higher Education Academy Subject Centre: Economics

This case study illustrates...an effect on learning, an effect on student personal development, innovation in learning and teaching, staff satisfaction with e-learning, a positive effect on recruitment, a positive effect on retention, use of resources, an effect on social equality

Further Evidence

'We increasingly felt that students were not always preparing exercises in advance of the class, nor were all of them prepared to participate in discussion... We therefore decided that linking each lecture with an associated exercise, and referring to it both before and after the students had completed the exercise would reinforce the lecture-based learning.'

'International students reported that they found the online materials particularly user-friendly.'