A Jisc project working with the UK academic community to understand the barriers stopping institutions from adopting more online learning and find the best solutions to address those problems. This wiki was created as a space to develop the Online Learning Toolkit - one of the solutions that the community has identified. If you have been invited to contribute to the wiki and have never used one before then you may find The PBworks Manual helpful.
We produced a series of guides and a practical checklist tool as an outcome of this work.
Our series of guides will help your staff understand the decisions they need to make and the processes involved around scaling up online learning at an organisational level.
They will also help ensure that online students receive an equitable service and student experience to their campus-based peers. Specifically:
Scaling up online learningprovides a strategic view of different models and the implications of implementing online learning at an institutional level
Technology and tools for online learning provides guidance, resources and case studies around the use of technology to support online courses and distance learning programmes.
This series of guides provides insight into the range of factors that contribute to ongoing capacity. They offer tools, techniques, strategies and activities at institutional, strategic and delivery levels to support the development and provision of online/distance learning programmes.
All three guides indicate the barriers and actions you can take as well as illustrated examples from institutions that have developed useful approaches to overcoming the barriers.
Use our checklist (Word docx) which highlights key questions you may be considering for online learning provision. Your institution may be planning to adopt new models of online or distance learning or may be integrating online learning into existing courses. This checklist can be useful for both scenarios.
The checklist provides groups of related questions that could be considered by teams, committees or individuals. Some of the questions require institution-wide consideration, whilst others may also need to be considered at a departmental or course team level. The checklist includes strategic and operational aspects as well as more specific questions for individual courses, modules or learning activities.
Online Learning Toolkit
This content developed in the wiki led to the final outputs listed above and serve to highlight the process and key considerations for the project team. If you require any information or clarification please contact us.
Key Questions - what we need to ask ourselves when adopting online learning - compiled by Lou McGill May 2015
SpicyNodes - Interactive visual display of the kinds of things we need to consider as an Institution or as an individual. There is also a page with the hierarchy listed as text - Things to consider
Suggested themes for the Jisc Online Learning toolkit
Each section includes a range of sub-themes and sections. Please note that if you added any text to the previous version of this page it will have been taken forward to the relevant section....
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