Sheryl Williams, Sandra Huskinson, Deena Ingham, Alessa Voigt CREST, @CrestSheryl Loughborough University

1. Using Technology (VLE) to
achieve excellence in
Teaching and Learning
Sheryl Williams
@CrestSheryl
Sandra Huskinson, Foteini Plyta, Deen Ingham, Alessa Voigt

3. Stakeholders
300academics and other staff
400modules
1500students

4. VLE Development - Project Life Cycle

5. Why is the project necessary?

6. LEARN (VLE) Revamp 2018
• School Merger
• Student Feedback
• Learning and Teaching strategy

8. How do we get this off the ground?

9. Development
• Get the right backing -SMT buy-in (CSC, LTC)
• Working group: staff (academic and
administrative) and students
• Expertise- IT support

10. What is the plan of action?

13. Support
• Videos
• Guidelines
• Drop-in sessions
• Workshops
• Encourage personal contact

14. How did it go?

15. Lessons learnt (work in progress)
Academics can sometimes be ‘bad’ students
• Update support
• FAQ
• Feedback

17. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-
NonCommercial ShareAlike 4.0 International Licence (CC BY NC
Created for the ALTC 2018 [Session 18-127]
Dr Sheryl Williams, S.R.Williams@lboro.ac.uk
Project
Life
Cycle

18. Project
Life
Cycle
How do we get this off the ground?
How did it go?
What is the plan of action?
Why is the project necessary?

19. Audience
Participation