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This report was commissioned by the Committee of Inquiry into the Changing Learner Experience
to review the current and developing use of Web 2.0 technologies in higher education from an
international perspective. It looks at how Web 2.0 is being used in both learning and teaching and
learner support in five countries (Australia, The Netherlands, South Africa, United Kingdom and
United States of America) as well as the drivers and inhibitors to use and looks at some of the
ways in which we expect higher education practice to develop as a result.
This can be downloaded in
Word or
PDF format.
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This report describes the induction process at the University of Bolton and provides models in UML,
BPMN and BizzDesign Archimate.
The report can be downloaded in
pdf format
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This paper is the final report of the JISC describes a high level domain map of higher education,
and the creation of a proof-of-concept version. It would allow a wide variety of practitioners to gain
a better understanding of the higher education domain, support business analysts in their work
and provide a business view onto the e- framework. Also available in
Word.
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This report looks at the use of Web 2.0 for content creation in teaching and learning, and makes
recommendations to the JISC. The final report is now available in
Word and pdf
, together with
JISC's response and
our comments on the response.
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This report is the conclusion of a study which looked at ways in which we could model roles in
higher education and the ways that they are changing. It is the result of joint work with the
University of Manchester and Educational Competencies Consortium Limited, the developers of the
HERA (Higher Education Role Analysis).
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This paper for the Personal Learning Environments (PLE) experts working group in Manchester
discusses the drivers that may enable PLEs to be adopted, together with the system and
institutional factors that militate against their successful use.
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This brief paper looks at the way that some of the issues around e-learning, in particular that the
creation of a divide between e-learning and learning is itself a problem.
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This Chapter for a forthcoming book (title to be decided), to be published by Facet Publishing,
Editor Andrew Cox, describes portal architectures and some of the issues that need to be
considered for people implementing them.
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Chapter, by Tom Franklin and Jill Armstrong, is published in
Personalizing Learning in the 21st
Century, Ed Sara De Freitas and Chris Yapp, Network Educational Press, 2005. It looks at the
need for spaces where learning can be personalised, rather than spaces that can be personalised,
and looks at some metaphors that can help to create more usable spaces.
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A series of reports describing how a wide variety of different technologies can be used to connect
remote sites back to the main campus. the following reports have been published so far:
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This paper looks at what mobile learning might mean for a student in 2012 by exploring what they
are doing and how they are doing it.
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Ubiquitous computing can be defined simply as all staff and students having networked computers
at all times that they are studying, allowing them access to communication, office productivity and
(re)search tools.
Three papers outlining the issues are available:
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A briefing paper outlining the key issues
for ubiquitous computing in education
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A briefing paper on the
policy issues around ubiquitous computing
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A paper setting out the terms of reference, remit and membership of the
national policy forum
on ubiquitous computing.
Closely related to ubiquitous computing is the idea of mobile computing, whereby the computer
(laptop, PDA or smartphone) can be used anywhere including on the move. A discussion paper on
the issues is available
here
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The use of wireless networking is becoming increasingly important in education and opens up a
wide variety of possibilities for enhancing teaching.
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Abstract
Portals are the latest in a long line of technologies that universities have been told will solve all their
problems. Portals are designed to enhance work and learning processes by making work flows
simpler and information more readily available in a form in which it can be processed. However, like
many other technologies portals will not live up to all the hype currently surrounding their
promotion. The report describes the main features of portals in higher education, and explores how
an institutional portal might affect the work of a typical academic. The author sets portal
development in the context of ‘web services’, an attempt to move away from a ‘monolithic’ approach
to computing applications (entailing duplication of function, excessive complexity and user
knowledge of multiple interfaces) to a integrated model, where smaller, discrete ‘services’ are
combined for specific users and purposes. This improves customisation and productivity. The range
of portal ‘types’ are reviewed (proprietary higher education specialist, corporate generic and open
source), and the implications for institutional adoption considered.
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This brief report discusses the options for connecting outreach centres to the Internet and helps
you to choose the most appropriate ones for you
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This report evaluates the projects in the JISC MLE Programme covering further education in
Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The projects covered interoperability around student records
(primarily between student record systems (SRS) and virtual learning environments (VLEs), content
sharing and Personal Development Plans / Records and 1 at the re-use of learning objects.
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This loks at the technology options available for implementing an MLE. The choices made here will
have a long term impact on the MLE as no technology or system will support everything that you
might wish to do at an affordable cost.
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This paper introduces a technical framework designed to support e-learning, and in particular to provide
a basis which enables pedagogic diversity.
The framework is very explicitly centred on the learning and teaching aspects of further and higher
education institutions and organisations in the UK. We are very aware that this is only one perspective,
and there are other areas, such as logistics, HR and finance, which may also benefit from the approach
taken. Although services defined for this framework may be usable for purposes other than learning and
teaching, we make no guarantees that the service definitions will be suitable for other domains.
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Many institutions are buying VLEs based primarily on a technical evaluation. This
briefing paper
looks at the issues involved in buying a VLE that will meet the long term needs of the institution
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This report looks at the impact that national services and programmes have had on teaching and
learning, and in particular the factors that have led to nationally provided services having a greater
or lesser impact on teaching and learning.
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This report proposes a model for the whole life-cycle of elearning, from the formation of initial ideas
through planning, development, delivery, review, revision and so on until the course is terminated,
that explicitly supports evaluation. One aim is to identify the critical points for evaluation. By
critical points, we mean those which can have the desired impact on quality enhancement. The
reason to focus on evaluation in developing a life cycle model is that there are good reasons why
the evaluation process should drive the development of any elearning product.
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The first report outlines possible models to provide secure funding for the Reload toolset. These
open source tools have been developed with funding from JISC and the European Union, as open
source tools and a means is needed to keep them up to date and to continue to develop them.
The second report develops one model further.
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Reports written for the Technology Enhanced Learning: Conformance - European Requirements &
Testing (TELCERT) project
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Interoperability Specifications for e-learning
describes why we need standards and
specifications to support e- learning, what the standards are and how they are described. It
was part of the TELCERT project report State of the Art Report on Technologies and
Techniques for Testing, ED. Smythe C
- Test system requirements
- defines the requirements for the test system
- Acceptance Test Criteria
- This document describes all acceptance tests that need to be
applied to content within the Telcert system.
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