Designing for e-learning
Our implementations of e-learning have been underpinned by an understanding of design for learning and investigations to help us understand the processes by which practitioners go about design. Our review of UK undergraduate blended e-learning identified course redesign as a key success factor for blended e-learning. We have been running and evaluating our Course Redesign Intensives at Brookes since 2003.
Funded projects in this area:
The HEA funded Pathfinder project supported the development and evaluation of our course design intensives workshops.
Staff involved:
Greg Benfield, George Roberts, Frances Deepwell, Rhona Sharpe, Richard Francis.
Key publications:
Benfield, G. (2008) Oxford Brookes University, Pathfinder Briefing Paper 2: Course Redesign Intensives, Higher Education Academy Pathfinder Programme, Pilot phase.
Beetham, H. & Sharpe, R. (2007) (Eds) Rethinking pedagogy for the digital age: designing and delivering e-learning. RoutledgeFalmer, London .
Cousin, G. & Deepwell, F. (2005) Designs for network learning: a communities of practice perspective, Studies in Higher Education, 30(1), 57-66
Seale, J., Boyle, T., Ingraham, B., Roberts, G. & McAvinia, C. (2007), Designing digital resources for learning. In G. Conole and M. Oliver (eds) Contemporary perspectives in E-learning research. RoutledgeFalmer, London , pp121-133
Sharpe, R. & Oliver, M. (2007) Designing courses for e-learning, in H. Beetham & R. Sharpe (eds) Rethinking pedagogy for the digital age: designing and delivering e-learning. RoutlegeFalmer, London .
Sharpe, R., Benfield, G., Roberts, G. & Francis, R. (2006) The undergraduate experience of blended e-learning: a review of UK literature and practice undertaken for the Higher Education Academy