Author: Susan Stuart, s.stuart@philosophy.arts.gla.ac.uk

JISC e-Learning Activity Area: Learning Resources and Activities

Higher Education Academy Subject Centre: Philosophical and Religious Studies

This case study illustrates...use of podcasting, an effect on learning, an effect on exam results, an effect on student personal development, student satisfaction with e-learning, innovation in learning and teaching, an influence on educational research, staff satisfaction with e-learning, staff personal development, a positive effect on retention, an influence on policy, modifications to learning spaces, an effect on social equality

Technology Used

What technologies and/or e-tools were available to you?

As mentioned above, I also made use of a MOODLE for each course, and there are online databases of electronic texts. The MOODLE was used enthusiastically, even high-spiritedly, by the Consciousness students, but much less so with Kant. There is a very steep learning curve with Kant that just isn't there - or at least is not perceived to be there - by the Consciousness students. What they don't know with Kant is evident from the start; what they don't know with Consciousness might never be clear to them.