Author: Dr Ian G Anderson, i.anderson@hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk

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

Higher Education Academy Subject Centre: History, Classics and Archaeology and Philosophical and Religious Studies

This case study illustrates...an effect on learning, an effect on exam results, staff satisfaction with e-learning, an influence on policy, modifications to learning spaces, management of learning assets, an effect on social equality

Lessons Learned

Summary and Reflection

Moodle, and before that icampus, have enabled me to achieve what I wanted; an integrated and efficient means of providing course material and communication online. I could, and perhaps should, have experimented more with how I taught, but in a subject that is itself about the appropriate use of ICT I'm aware that sitting behind the 'bleeding edge' is no bad thing. In particular I remain to be convinced that the benefits of developing online discussion forums further outweigh the costs, at least for the characteristics of my current student cohort.

I feel my adoption and use of VLEs has allowed me to do better what I was already doing and my use of more VLE features organic. In fact, I would not consider what I do as e-learning, if anything it is hybrid or blended learning. This may of course change, but for the foreseeable future I see developments in my approach as being piecemeal and incremental.