Learning Technologies

Released: 23rd February 2010

For: Teaching staff who want to learn how to use learning technologies effectively in their teaching, and e-learning teams who design online programmes.

Lead Advisor: Professor Diana Laurillard, Institute of Education, London.

“The great value of these courses is that lecturers who are interested in innovating with digital technologies can now build on advice and guidance collected together in an easily accessible way.”

Diana Laurillard

US version Editor: Professor Ray Schroeder, University of Illinois at Springfield

Seventeen eLearning experts from the USA, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand have collaborated on these courses including:

• Larry Ragan, Director of Instructional Design and Development, Penn State University, USA
• Professor Caroline Haythornthwaite, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

• Dr Rhona Sharpe, staff and educational consultant at Oxford Brookes University, UK
  
• Dr Cathy Gunn, Head of eLearning Design and Development Group, the University of Auckland
• Professor Ron Oliver, Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Teaching and Learning) at Edith Cowan University
• Professor Shirley Alexander BSc, Vice-President (Teaching, Learning and Equity), University of Technology, Sydney
• Dr Terry Anderson - Professor & Canada Research Chair in Distance Education, Athabasca University
• Steve Ryan - Director of the Centre for Learning Technology, London School of Economics

Content:

The courses can be made available to faculty in bite-sized learning modules, or as part of a structured training programme.

Built to an unusually high standard, the material has fascinating case studies from around the world, together with a wealth of interactive simulations.

This programme consists of 7 courses with over 10 hours of content:

Course list

Development Group:

Eighteen leading universities in the UK, Holland, Australia and New Zealand form this development group:

• Auckland University, New Zealand
• City University, UK
• Delft University, Netherlands
• Durham University, UK
• Edinburgh University, UK
• Edith Cowan University, Australia
• The Hague University (Netherlands)
• Hogeschool Leiden (Netherlands)
• Institute of Education, UK
• Leeds Metropolitan University, UK
• Leiden University (Netherlands)
• Liverpool University, UK
• Massey University, New Zealand
• Newcastle University, UK
• University of New England, Australia
• Sussex University, UK
• Warwick University, UK
• York University

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