Author: G. Skelly, gordon.skelly@ncl.ac.uk

Author: P.R. Kyle, p.r.kyle@newcastle.ac.uk

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

Higher Education Academy Subject Centre: Medicine, Dentistry and Veterinary Medicine

This case study illustrates...use of specialist software, 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 recruitment, a positive effect on retention, an influence on policy, use of resources, modifications to learning spaces, management of learning assets, an effect on social equality

Technology Used

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

There was no institutional strategy and thus the development team was free to do as they wished. Pedagogically, the online content had to be 100% equivalent to the paper 'study guides', maintaining consistency.

Initially, content was delivered through 'Windows Help Documents', then using an internet approach built around a web application development technology, ZOPE, for rapid scalable prototype development.