Aims

This guide is aimed at practitioners throughout the post-compulsory education and training sector – lecturers, tutors and support staff in higher and further education institutions, as well as facilitators, trainers and tutors in adult and community learning. What unites this diverse group of professionals is an interest in enhancing the quality of teaching and learning in their institutions and a curiosity about how e-learning can assist them.

Making the move towards new technologies presents us with a complex set of challenges – we may need to develop new skills, embrace changes in the nature of our role, and then reassess the pedagogies we employ. Even when its potential advantages have been recognised, how, when and where to implement e-learning in conjunction with established practice is still to be fully explored. For many practitioners, e-learning brings with it as many questions as answers.

The purpose of Effective Practice with e-Learning is to focus attention on these questions, to establish what are pedagogically sound and accessible ways of embedding e-learning into everyday practice. Linking theory with practice, we aim to develop a shared understanding as to how, when and where to apply e-learning to the best advantage of learners. The views and experiences of practitioners in different teaching and learning contexts across the post compulsory sector provide an insight into how the ‘e-learning advantage’ has been used in practice in institutions in the ten case studies commissioned for this publication.

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