Summary: On-Line Higher Education Learning
The focus of this project is the development of e-learning within a blended learning approach and on the student experience. To this end a starting point is a review of all the discussion reports listed on the About this project page and a summary of each that tries to identify the most relevant findings, ideas and concepts in terms of the project, and annotating them to identify key issues, questions that arise and further work that needs to be done. The first summary has been completed and a version of the On-line Higher Education Learning report has now been posted to the project wiki. This has reduced the original 32 page report to 6 pages and about 6000 words. The approach has been to copy and paraphrase relevent sections and sentences, highlighting key concepts and ideas and adding bracketed annotations for observations, queries and notes of what needs to be elaborated further. In the wiki the summary is actually an embedded Google doc. This is a ‘live’ link to the orignal document so subsequent updates are automatically passed to the embedded version in the wiki.
I would be grateful for any comments, questions or suggestions that colleagues here care to make. The full rationale for the project is gradually taking shape. It will ultimately be focussed on producing a strategy and plan for the development of blended learning in the School of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leeds but of course needs to be developed within a consideration of the wider HE environment changes projected over the next 15 years or so. This to some extent will impact on the School in mediated form via the decisions, strategies and plans that Leeds University makes. This is why the project starts with an examination of the possible UK HE sector’s development over the next 15 years and how Leeds university may situate itself to maximise opportunities and play to its strengths and appropriate constituencies of students and stakeholders.
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