E-learning
Online workshopping
“Through on-screen and on-line workshopping we hope to develop a more flexible and interactive paradigm, which allows all participants to share their thoughts and suggestions, and at the same time allows the tutor to provide exemplary editorial suggestions that can be implemented and seen immediately”
Good Practice Guide to Online Discussion
Introduction
Welcome to the e-learning area of the website. This e-learning area currently consists of a growing archive of projects we have either sponsored or carried out ourselves looking at the ways in which technology is enhancing the teaching of English studies. You can access these from the sidebar.
Current work
One of the most exciting developments for the academic year 2009/10 is the arrival of the Subject Centre’s new e-learning consultant, Dr Rosie Miles from the University of Wolverhampton. Rosie is an enthusiastic user of her institution’s VLE with her students and has worked with us over a number of years in e-learning projects and initiatives. Make sure you also check her new blog: ‘A year in the life of e-learning in English’ and don’t forget to leave a comment! You can read more about what Rosie can offer on her web page.
We are currently working with our 4 cognate Subject Centres on a one-year major pilot project to design an ‘open’ collection of teaching materials across the humanities. We are calling it HumBox. We have also recently completed an innovative project exploring the pedagogical effectiveness of the Virtual World ‘Second Life’ with our colleagues at the PALATINE (Dance, Music and Drama). A seed guide for those starting out with VLE’s will be published shortly, as well as a Good Practice Guide to Online discussion.
The Duologue project looked at the rollout of a VLE in the English department at the University of Durham and examined the pedagogical issues from the viewpoint of both the students and staff involved. Digital Resources for Teaching and Discussion was a major project which examined how digital resources can assist learning and teaching and is designed to stimulate discussion about the use of digital resources in the discipline.
The e-learning events area (accessible from the left-hand navigation bar) contains an archive of all the events we have run on the subject many of which have downloadable materials, presentations, videos and reports. The right hand column on this page contains listings of some of the major events going on around the UK in the forthcoming months.
The publications area has a handy breakdown of all the articles that have appeared in our own publications as well as a list of links to the most popular journals, e-zines and online newsletters on the subject of e-learning.
- Other E-learning Content
- E-learning Case studies
- E-learning Projects
- E-learning Publications
- E-learning Video
- Creating a Learning Community: the Canterbury Tales VLE
- Depositing a Learning Object with JORUM
- Editing Lady Hester Pulter (1605 – 1678)
- Enhancing interactive learning in the classroom with Turning Point
- From stick to carrot – using Turnitin to help improve students’ writing
- Plot-casting: Using Student-Generated Audiobooks for Learning and Teaching
- Teaching transitivity
- Testing Language Skills using Computer Assisted Assessment (CAA)
- Text.Play.Space : Creative Online Activities in English Studies
- Using Blogs for Peer Feedback in a Creative Writing Course – An Exploratory Study
- Using Eighteenth-Century Collections Online (ECCO) as a learning and teaching resource
- Using online learning journals to enhance students’ engagement with literary theory
- Using Screen Capture Software in Student Feedback
- Using wikis to support small group work
- ARIES: Punctuation, Spelling and Reference for the Web
- Creating and Assessing Discussion Forums in English Studies
- Creative Assessment in the English Literature degree: Towards Criteria for Assessment
- Creative Writing: using technology for on-screen and online workshopping
- Developing on-line materials to support progression from FE to HE English Programmes
- Development of ‘Wessex Parallel Web Texts’
- Digital Resources for Teaching and Discussion
- E-learning advocates – Dr Christopher Ringrose
- E-learning advocates – Dr Lee Horsley
- E-learning advocates – Dr Lesley Coote
- E-learning advocates – Dr Matthew Day
- E-learning advocates – Dr Peter Hinds
- E-learning advocates – Dr Rosie Miles
- E-learning advocates – Dr Stuart Robertson
- E-learning advocates – Louise Marshall & Will Slocombe
- Embedding e-learning using e-learning Advocates
- How do I reference an article again? – Information Literacy & E-Learning
- Interdisciplinarity and On-Line Learning: Fiction in the Victorian and Edwardian provincial press
- Learning and Teaching with the Thesaurus of Old English
- New Tools for Creative Interpretation: An Investigative Study using Digital Video and Computer Animation
- Old English Online Coursepack
- ORB – A Virtual Reality Literary Magazine
- Pilot online writing resource
- Producing and Researching Effectiveness of Materials for Computer Supported Experiential Learning in the Area of Advanced Literacy Skills
- Repurposing Digital Research Archives
- Reusing Learning Materials in English Literature and Language
- Sam Weller Learns to Read : the origins of the reading public 1830 – 1870
- Teaching and Assessing Writing Skills
- Teaching and Reading Byron in Context
- Teaching metrics using EVS (Electronic Voting System) handsets
- The ASSAP Project – Adding Subject Specificity to Accredited Programmes or “The Pool”
- The C & IT Project
- The Duologue Project
- The HumBox project
- The potential of ‘Inspiration’ software for Dyslexic Students
- Theatron 3 – ‘The fools’ zanni’: exploring prominent characteristics of the Commedia dell’ Arte
- Theatron 3 – Educational undertakings in Second Life
- Theatron 3 – Insubstantial Pageants’: learning about Renaissance drama in Second Life
- Theatron 3 – Integrating film technologies into Second Life
- Theatron 3 – Seeing Space: The examination of scenographic principals using Second Life technology
- Theatron 3 – Virtual Poesis: The New Creative Pedagogy of Second Life
- Virtual Printing Press
- Web-based resources for teaching, research and general use, on Robert Bloomfield and Thomas Chatterton
- WikiOmeros
- Word Webs: Exploring vocabulary
- ‘Odour of Chrysanthemums’: The digitisation of D.H. Lawrence manuscripts and papers
- Creating & Assessing Online Discussion Forums – 2005 Event Videos
- Creative Writing: teaching & technology – April 2008 – Event videos
- Creative Writing: using technology for on-screen and online workshopping
- EEBO Workshop
- Encouraging Student-Centred Interaction Online – Birmingham, January 2009 – Event videos
- New Tools for Creative Interpretation: An Investigative Study using Digital Video and Computer Animation
- The ASSAP Project – Adding Subject Specificity to Accredited Programmes or “The Pool”