PG Cert intro session on e-learning.

1. PG Cert EDEV401
An introduction to ‘e-learning’
Nick Bunyan: Learning Technologist & Educational Developer
eLearning Unit, Centre for Lifelong Learning

2. Session topics
1. Your experiences of using technology.
2. 7 technologies impacting on higher education.
3. Additional resources in VITAL.

3. Activity
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4. 7 technologies impacting higher education
Technology Examples Impact
1. VITAL (VLE) Creating an effective basic
VITAL module
Students expect minimum
standards in VITAL modules/
supporting student
independent learning.
2. Social media Module Facebook pages Informal learning subcultures.
3. Screencasts & e-lectures Dr Lu Mello Life Sciences Flipped classrooms – the
death of the lecture?!
4. Simulation, interactive
multimedia
ChemTube Clickers, Vets
dissection animations, new
simulation tool in Xerte.
Practice making mistakes/
modelling real world decision
making/ visualisation.
5. Classroom technologies
(BYOD4L)
Clickers, Polleverywhere,
Textwall, Nearpod
Closing the gap between
teacher and student in large
and small group teaching.
6. E-assessment VITAL MCQ tests, PeerWise Continuous formative
assessment & self-regulation/
adaptive teaching
7. MOOC’s & OER’s FutureLearn, Khan Academy Free content/ disruption of the
traditional HE model?!

5. What do students want or
expect from technology?

6. • Students are looking for a more consistent use of VITAL modules.
• Specific technologies identified to enhance learning and teaching:
• Lecture capture
• Clickers
• ‘Bring your own devices’ – tablets etc.
• MOOC’s etc .

7. Technology enhanced learning strategy

8. VITAL resources
Overview to technologies, case studies & resources