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Learning objects and learning design
Learning interaction and networked communities
Informal eLearning
Funded projects

Blended Learning for 4 Academic Competence and Critical Enquiry

LTRI has a consultancy role in a £25,000 JISC bid awarded to Thames Valley University that includes reusing and repurposing learning objects developed by the RLO-CETL. The project is entitled ‘Blended Learning 4 Academic Competence and Critical Enquiry (BL4ACE)’, and will run for one year from March 2008. Tom Boyle and Claire Bradley will be working as consultants on the project. This is a very good example of the CETL having impact outside the partner institutions. A brief summary of the project follows.

By the end of the project, the team will have embedded a new technology enhanced module across a range of courses using TVU’s current Blackboard VLE, and will have addressed the following:

• Use of the RLO-CETL Generative Learning Object tool to adapt RLO’s to meet specific needs if required and appropriate.
• Assessment of the relative merits of adopting a ‘more tutor-managed delivery’ of RLOs as opposed to ‘more student-managed approaches’ e.g. a comparison of three scenarios:
  1. Using RLO wraparounds (keeping the RLO as it is and adding a front-end to set the TVU context and a follow-up reflection or assessment to make the learning relevant to the local needs)
  2. Modifying the RLO itself so that it is more suitable for TVU needs
  3. Providing RLO choice (providing students with a selection of RLOs that cover similar learning outcomes and allowing students to manage their own learning).

The project is also going to trial the London Pedagogy Planner tool which has been developed by a JISC-funded Design for Learning project, of which LTRI is a partner. The tool will be used to assist the process of curriculum evaluation and redesign.

Contact details

Professor Tom Boyle
Learning Technology Research Institute
London Metropolitan University
35 Kingsland Road, London, E2 8AA
Email: t.boyle@londonmet.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)207 749 3757
Fax: +44 (0)207 749 3781
WWW: http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/ltri

Last updated 21 December, 2010