Project Aims & Objectives

Project Title

The Use of Mobile e-Learning in Relating Historical and Theoretical Study with Practice in the Study of Art and Design

Project Description

To provide ultra mobile pc’s for students to use both within sessions and externally. Working across Lecture theatres, art studios, classrooms and outside college buildings, these are to extend VLE systems to support students on vocational art and design programmes who also study academic qualifications. Activities will involve the use of wiki’s, blogs, podcasts and forums whilst also giving students enhanced opportunities to engage in an e –ILP pilot.

Project Aims

• enhance personalised learning
• a shift in curriculum from and instructive to a constructive model
• students develop theoretical understandings
• improve high grade achievement

Project Objectives

• build learner knowledge and confidence in the use of new technologies
• learners recognise the value of theory and practice
• develop cohorts awareness of historical and contemporary practice
• harness the potential of Moodle
• enhance the learner experience
• develop online ILP system
• raise key headline statistics.


Outputs

The programme will involve creating a diverse range of digital learning materials including the following;

• digitising course material and populating the College intranet with information, downloadable word documents, ebooks, pdf files and hyperlinks to relevant external sites.

• podcasts for briefings, homework descriptions, lectures and possible staff feedback to learners.

• on-line video tutorials for software and hardware related tuition.

• the investigation of e-ILP’s and their assistance in developing student potential

• online blogs, wiki’s and forums

• the use of web based social networking systems (eg Facebook)
email and news groups used to disseminate information to students.

• HTML/Flash based learning tools

Example Flash Sites
http://www.oracle.com/johnblade/index.html
http://www.becominghuman.org/