Author: Stuart Hirst, s.hirst@leedsmet.ac.uk

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

Higher Education Academy Subject Centre: Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism

This case study illustrates...an effect on learning, student satisfaction with e-learning, innovation in learning and teaching, staff personal development

Lessons Learned

Summary and Reflection

The following references have been some help in refining my thinking of the role of VLEs in Blended Learning:

• Biggs, J. (2003) Teaching for quality learning Maidenhead: Open University Press
• Boud, D. (1988) Assessment in problem-based learning. Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, 13 (2), 87-91.
• Boud, D. (1994) The move to self-assessment: liberation or a new mechanism for oppression? In Armstrong, P., Bright, B, & Zukas, M. (Eds.). Reflecting on Changing Practices, Contexts and Identities. Papers from the 24th Annual Conference of the Standing Conference on University Teaching and Research in the Education of Adults, University of Hull, 12-14 July 1994. Leeds: Department of Adult Continuing Education, University of Leeds, 10-14.
• Collins, J. (2001) Good to Great. Harper Collins Publishers Inc
• Kneale, P. E. (1997) The Rise of the 'Strategic Student': How Can We Adapt to Cope? In S. Armstrong, G. Thompson & S. Brown (Eds), Facing up to Radical Change in Universities and Colleges (pp.119-130). London: Kogan Page
• Race, P. (2005) Making Learning Happen, UK, Sage Publications Ltd

POSTSCRIPT

I thought I would be unlikely to use this approach again; that of using a metaphor for learning. Here's one just delivered this current academic year: