E-Learning Models study

E-Learning Models reports and resources.

Using Ontologies to Support the Sharing of Learning Resources

Michael Gardner describes the development of DELTA, a tool for practitioners which enables them to submit, search and retrieve distributed resources, based on standardized metadata and identified pedagogical contexts. This article will be of interest to those following the current debates around pedagogic ontologies versus folksonomies.

Review: developing e-Learning Models for the JISC Practitioner Communities

A review by Helen Beetham of the available approaches to modelling (e)learning, including key definitions and scoping of the proposed projects. This link will open the word document.

Review of e-learning theories, frameworks and models

This review by Terry Mayes and Sara de Freitas is part of the e-learning Models Desk Study study carried out by Chimera: Institute of Socio-technical Innovation and Research, University of Essex under Professor Chris Fowler. The purpose of the desk study was to describe what is understood by effective practice in relation to e-learning; to identify and describe the range of models that inform the design and implementation of e-learning activities and to specify a planning tool to aid practitioners in their implementation of e-learning. This review is designed to inform practitioners, policy developers and other stakeholders who want to reflect more deeply upon their practice or gain a greater understanding about how theory and practice can be mapped together. This review reveals the pedagogic and pragmatic assumptions underlying a range of approaches to e-learning, classified into three broad areas. Proposes a principle of constructive alignment to ensure practice models are based on relevant theoretical frameworks. This link opens the report in PDF.

Assessing the relevance of the review of elearning theories, frameworks and models and the mapping table to designers

This paper by John Scott is part of the e-Learning models Desk Study and outlines possible applications of the review of e-learning theories by Mayes and de Freitas and the Mapping study by Fowler and Mayes to design of learning systems and environments, with some reference to relevant standards.

Mapping Theory to Practice and Practice to Tool functionality based on the Practitioners' perspective

This study by Chris Fowler and Terry Mayes is part of the e-learning Models Desk Study study carried out by Chimera: Institute of Socio-technical Innovation and Research, University of Essex under Professor Chris Fowler. This study took a practitioner perspective and then explored the relationship between that perspective and existing theories (pedagogical , e-learning models etc), and existing resources (tools, technologies etc). The purpose of such mappings is to create theoretically grounded e-learning solutions as illustrated through a series of case studies. This report identifies key features of learning activity design and presents structured relations among these features in the form of (conceptually legitimate) exemplars or scenarios. This report is a PDF file.

Assessing the relevance of the review of e-learning theories, frameworks and models and the mapping table to evaluators

This paper by Martin Oliver is part of the e-Learning Models Desk Study carried out by Chimera: Institute of Socio-technical Innovation and Research, University of Essex under Professor Chris Fowler. The paper describes possible applications of the Review os e-learning theories by Mayes and de Freitas to provide criteria for evaluation and the Mapping study by Fowler and Mayes to provide researchable hypotheses about the relations between different approaches and outcomes.

Demonstrator for the e-learning planning tool

A powerpoint presentation of the demonstrator for the e-learning planning tool development in the e-Learning Models Desk Study of the e-Learning Programme.