JISC/Higher Education Academy distributed elearning projects
As part of a strategic alliance between the Higher Education Academy and the JISC, the 24 Subject Centres of the Academy tokpart in the Distributed eLearning Programme. The Centres undertook a range of projects looking at both subject based issues in eLearning and the shareability of resources.
As part of a closer working partnership and strategic alliance between the Higher Education Academy and the JISC, the Academy signed a contract to receive £1.3m in funding over a two year period (ended 31 March 2006) as part of the JISC's Distributed e-Learning programme www.jisc.ac.uk/programme_edistributed.html
The funding was to enable Subject Centres to engage with HEFCE's political and strategic agendas and to work with their subject communities to use technologies to support learning and teaching. The work of the Subject Centres primarily looked to address section 4 of the Distributed e-Learning programme which focuses on the cultural issues and subject differences surrounding embedding e-learning technologies.
This was followed up with two further tranches of funding from April 2006 to March 2008, under the JISC eLearning capital programme.
Two phases (started April 2006 and April 2007) of projects in the Subject Centres, piloting and feeding back on the use of a number of e-learning technologies and approaches within subject communities. The areas explored were:
- Re-use and sharing of learning resources
- Use of the outputs of the Digitisation programme in learning and teaching
- Use of e-portfolios in subject and professional contexts, working with employers, sector skills councils and professional bodies
- Supporting the development of e-learning tools by piloting tools and providing input on the needs and requirements of the different subject communities
- Supporting the e-Learning Pedagogy programme by engaging with the Learner experience study or the Designing for Learning activities
We continued to work with partners in the constituency in the following areas:
- Communities of practice
- JISC services elearning case studies
- ePortfolios one day conference, 28 February 2008, Assembly Rooms, Newcastle upon Tyne.
- VetSchools
