e-Learning: Using E-Learning to Improve your Students Grades

Welcome to this short course which introduces ideas about using e-learning in your teaching through the medium of e-learning.

It is common for tutors to be encouraged to use e-learning in their modules "just because it is there" or because it is dictated from above.

This course looks at the ways in which student learning might be enhanced and matches this against possible ways that e-learning might help. The intention in this course is to encourage the use of e-learning when it is appropriate and not just for its own sake.

Session Sequence

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Week 0 - Introduction

1. Take a look at the course learning outcomes. [Popup]
2. Take part in the introductory activity. [Popup]

Week 1 - Activity 1

This activity is about evaluating the "Seven Principles of Good Practice in Undergraduate Education" [Popup] and deciding how far the principles are valid in your discipline?

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Week 2 - Activity 2

Take a look at some of the techniques [Popup] that might be used to facilitate e-learning.

Evaluate how some of these techniques may be used to take forward the effective practice given in the Seven Principles. You may wish to use Chickering and Erhmann's ideas [Popup] as a resource.

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Week 3 - Activity 3

Try applying some of these ideas to your discipline. Can you think of an example of how you might use technology in your discipline to support one of the principles? [The Seven Principles Library [Off Site] might be helpful here]

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