Case study resources

Reports relating to the Effective practice case studies.

Large Scale deployment of web services at London Met

There are as yet relatively few examples of web services being used on a large scale in an educational institution. Like other universities the newly formed London Metropolitan University faces the challenge of managing information located across different systems and departments. In response London Met have embarked on a cross-institutional project to integrate information from many of the university MIS systems, such as student records and finance systems using a service oriented approach. We talked to Paul Walk the Enterprise Information Integration (EII) Service Oriented Architecture project manager.

TRICS project on the JISC site

The JISC web site for the TRICS (Tools for Re-usable Interactive Case Studies) e-Learning tool project. This page provides formal project information, aims, objectives and contacts.

TRICS project on the e-Learning Framework site

This page provides information on how the project fits into the e-Learning Framework (ELF) and access to the work of the project including software and documentation.

Case Studies on Effective Practice with e-Learning – Illustrating effective practice

A series of case studies illustrating examples of EFFECTIVE practice in relation to e-learning in the post-16 and HE communities has been produced. The case studies illustrate a range of different approaches to e-learning, and include examples from further education, higher education and adult and community learning. Using the six requirements identified in the Research study (Work package 2), the programme set out to provide case studies that were ‘usable, contextualised, adaptable, designed to support professional learning and owned by the communities that produced them’. The case studies needed to focus on the issues that are of relevance to learning design, i.e. those features identified in the elearning models project: learner roles and needs, available tools and resources, subject domain. Some of these case studies are published in the Effective Practice with E-Learning Guide.

Case Studies on Innovative Practice with e-Learning – Illustrating effective practice

A series of case studies illustrating examples of INNOVATIVE practice in relation to e-learning in the post-16 and HE communities has been produced. The case studies illustrate a range of different approaches to e-learning, and include examples from further education, higher education and adult and community learning. Using the six requirements identified in the Research study (Work package 2), the programme set out to provide case studies that were ‘usable, contextualised, adaptable, designed to support professional learning and owned by the communities that produced them’. The case studies needed to focus on the issues that are of relevance to learning design, i.e. those features identified in the elearning models project: learner roles and needs, available tools and resources, subject domain.