Embedding learning technologies in practice

Beginner's Guide to Teaching and Learning Technology is a still relevant publication from the Learning and Teaching Dissemination Initiative in Scotland. The LTDI Brite Ideas Online - a database of ideas for using C&IT in higher education - is another useful tool from the same web site.

ASTER is a TLTP project to assist small group teaching through electronic resources. Its web site has various reports of good practice and resources, for example case studies and a reflective tool to help decide on whether to use more small group teaching.

The Book of TALENT offers a series of booklets with advice on web-based learning and teaching, as well as strategic advice on organisational change.

The TELRI project web site includes the outcomes of their research into how learning technologies can support students' higher order cognitive skills and the deveopment of scholarship.

ELICIT modules are online tutorials to support the integration of various learning technologies into the HE curriculum.

Learning Technology Handbook is an introduction to issues in Learning Technology on the Association for Learning Technology web

Virtual Learning Space offers resources and discussion boards on a wide range of topics, many of them learning technology related.

Internet Resources Newsletter was described as "Possibly the most useful round-up of new resources for academic users" by
The Student's Guide to the Internet 2000-2001. The focus is on engineering, science and social science.

The LTSN Generic Centre Resources Database can be browsed for articles on e-Learning. Those towards the end of the list (i.e. the earlier commissioned) tend to be more general and accessible to the non-specialist.

Teaching and Learning Technology Group: website of the US-based Teaching and Learning Technology Group, developers of the Roundtable and Flashlight methodologies. The site also contains details of how to join their moderated discussion lists, which cover issues in learning, teaching, technology and change.

Learning technology theories and models

Instructional Design Models, a web site by Martin Ryder at the University of Colorado, is one of the longest established sites for learning technology information. There are explanations and links for a wide range of theoretical (educational) approaches, with the embedded page on constructivism one of the most useful.

Learning and Teaching offers a 'quick and dirty' overview of learning theories in post-school education, via a helpful site map. It is maintained by James Atherton at De Montford University.

Learning and Instruction: the Theory into Practice database is a searchable index of approaches to learning, with examples. There are an increasing number of references to the use of learning technologies, and the site is very accessible.

Even more accessible, About learning/Theories describes itself as a 'funderstanding' (edutaining??) site offering an online introduction to various learning theories and their application.

EducatiOnline at the University of Leeds is a searchable database of conference papers, working papers and other freely available research findings in education - not for beginners.

EdResearch Online is a similar database of research from Australia, also linking to full-text articles.

ERIC Higher Education Digests offers short articles on topical subjects in HE learning and teaching, from the National Teaching and Learning Forum in the US. This is part of the ERIC Clearinghouse on Higher Education, an information service linking to abstracts rather than to full-text articles.

 

A list of downloadable publications is available from the Centre for the Study of Advanced Learning Technologies at Lancaster University

The 'No Significant Difference Phenomenon' web site offers a comprehensive database of abstracts from research into the impact of introducing new technologies into teaching and learning. The emphasis is on distance learning but other contexts are also represented.