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LATEST WEB LINKS
(last updated on 03.01.02)
The Learning and Skills Council, which is based in the UK, Is a large advocate of the use of good practice. Its website, which can be found at:
www.lsc.gov.uk, contains information about the Learning and Skills Council’s approach to raising standards for the learners it funds. The information is most useful, amongst others, for providers such as colleges, community education services and work based training providers.
It also provides information about which providers have been funded to share their good practice and the sort of support they offer by including a good practice database, which can be accessed through the site. This is a search-based engine that utilises a pull-down list for information about colleges running dissemination activities, including the use of good practice. The list includes colleges, which have been awarded grade 1 or have achieved accredited or Beacon status and are thus able to apply for funding to help them to share their good practice with others.
The database can be found at: www.lscdata.gov.uk/quality/goodpracticedatabase.html
Another UK initiative, The Marchmont ADAPT
Project, supports the Marchmont Observatory, based at the University of
Exeter, UK. The project's role is to explore best practice, including
developments represented by e-learning, with an emphasis on the needs
of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). A current evaluation of
the project describes how it has aimed to generate an understanding of
the role of new technologies that support learning in this type of
industry. It also outlines a range of innovative tools and methods
used by the project to capture and share experience of what works,
where and why, as well as highlighting a few of the key lessons. For
further information, including tool-kits, Good Practice Database,
publications and the external evaluator's report, click on the
following website:
http://www.lifelonglearning.ac.uk/
Please note that this site is experiencing some difficulties,
which I have been assured is in the process of being corrected. I will
post a message on this page once the link becomes available again. Also, refer to the bottom of
Past Highlighted Web Links below, for an old web link
highlight to Marchmont Observatory and some of it's flexible learning tool kits.
Past
Highlighted Web Links
TAFE frontiers offers an extensive range of free resources related to Flexible Learning that are downloadable directly from their website. The publication,
Building FlexAbility: Focus on Leadership series, 'Critical Issues in Flexible Learning for VET
Managers'', contains four sections that are freely available as downloadable
pdf's.
See the following:
http://www.tafefrontiers.com.au/content/MoreNewsPage.html
The materials have been widely reviewed by VET managers receiving extremely positive feedback.
They have been written by experts in flexible learning from Australia and Canada: John Mitchell, Colin
Latchem, Dr Tony Bates and Dr Peter Smith.
The following
website, Option Keys, has been developed to assist all TAFE online
teams in developing online resources and websites which can be easily
accessed by all users. With links to sites like Bobby and other site
validation checks, as well as various troubleshooting advice this is a
terrific resource for web developers that is well set out and easy to
navigate.
http://www.oten.edu.au/optionkeys/index.html
Pat Mela, a training and assessment consultant from the UK, has some
useful suggestions for trainers who wish to deliver learning
assessments on the web. She cites several sales-learning assessments
kits, useful tips to consider when purchasing these, as well as some
good examples of types of questions that trainers should avoid. Click here
to view a further summary of these and the relevant links.
Another
ANTA project titled Triple C, which is managed by Cathy Down at
RMIT, is a website where teachers can put up resources. These can then
be used in a variety of ways including submitting them through a
resource generator.
http://www.triplec.eu.rmit.edu.au
The LTSN-ICS Electronic Journal is a professional
online publication for academics within the Information and Computer
Sciences communities.
http://www.ics.ltsn.ac.uk/pub/italics
Articles
include:
Use of
Computer Assisted Assessment by Staff in the teaching of Information
Science and Library Studies Read
Derek Stephens & Anita Curtis, Loughborough University
Electronic
Support for Computing Students at a Distance Read
Pete Thomas, The Open University
Diversity and
Motivation in Introductory Programming Read
Tony Jenkins & John Davy, University of Leeds
Seven Principles of Effective Teaching:
A Practical Lens for Evaluating Online Courses
by Charles Graham, Kursat Cagiltay, Byung-Ro Lim, Joni Craner and Thomas
The Hitchhikers Guide to Flexible Learning
This flexible learning tool kit was the first highlighted web link on the Good Practice in Flexible Learning
Website. It is broken up into separate packages (All the tool kit files are in Adobe Acrobat).
They include:
Guide for SME Employees
Guide for Managers of SMEs
Guide for Managers of Training/ Organisations
Guide for Deliverers of Training
The Hitchhikers guide to Flexible Learning has been developed by the Marchmont Observatory in the UK. There is a lot of very good information on the website for anyone interested in Flexible Learning. You can also register for The WEB Flash described as an irregular newsletter on
life long learning. Recommended as a good
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