People Involved:

  Dr Sara Price, Dr Martin Oliver

Tags:

Martin Oliver   Sara Price   e-learning   Higher Education management   2005/6  

Project Outputs:

 Project Sheet 401.01 Kb
Project Report (TeLearn Website)

Summary

Aims and objectives

• To explore the impact of new forms of technology on roles and practices in Higher Education
• To identify the kinds of intervention best suited to supporting staff

Project timelines and current status

One year project, with 3 main components:

• Literature review (Completed)
• Empirical work (to take place over the next 4-5 months)
  • Current point in project
  • Small contributions of case studies within a short period
• Current state of the art and implications for policy makers/ support staff/ staff development

Questions of interest (tentative)

• The process of adoption of technology
  • Policy effects/ tensions (relationship between policy and practice)
  • Effect on/ changes in academics' roles
  • Emergent use of technology
• Team based approaches
  • Roles within teams
  • Emergent issues
• WLE Centre group/ individual interests