e-Portfolios: Tools for 21st century learning

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/Home/news/stories/2008/09/eportfoliolaunch.aspx
Today (September 9, 2008) sees ‘Effective Practice with e-Portfolios’, the newest guide in the JISC Effective Practice series, being launched at ALT-C in Leeds.
The publication explores good practice in the use of e-portfolios as a support for learning. It is being launched in conjunction with an e-portfolios infoKit4 which covers the main [...]

ELESIG A Pathfinder Network Project funded by the Higher Education Academy

http://elesig.ning.com/
ELESIG is for those involved in investigations and Evaluations of Learners’ Experiences of e-learning (Special Interest Group)

Learning Bank

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/Home/publications/publications/learningbankfinalreport.aspx
The JISC Exchange for Learning Bank Project3 comprised 2 phases and work on Phase 2 was completed in July 2006. The aim of the project was to explore and implement reuse and repurposing methodologies and produce high quality learning objects for distribution using repository tools. Over the 4 years of the Project [...]

Digital Anthropological Resources for Teaching

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/Home/publications/publications/dartfinalreport.aspx
This project formed a collaboration between Columbia University and the London School of Economics. It involved the two Departments of Anthropology and drew on a wide range of pedagogical and technical expertise within both institutions. This included substantial expertise in the development and use of teaching technologies and digital libraries; in [...]

Digital Libraries for Global Distributed Innovative Design

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/Home/publications/publications/didetfinalreport.aspx
The central goal of the Digital Libraries for Global Distributed Innovative Design (DIDET) project was to enhance student learning opportunities by enabling them to partake in global, team based design engineering projects, in which they directly experience different cultural contexts and access a variety of digital information sources via a range [...]

Tools for Online Interoperable Assessment

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/Home/publications/publications/toiafinalreport.aspx
Tools for Online Interoperable Assessment project3 (TOIA) brings together recognised UK FE and HE leaders in the area of online assessment and interoperability.  The Project builds upon the previous work of the University of Strathclyde on test creation and delivery tools (the Clyde Virtual University assessment engine) and the work [...]

The Spoken Word

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/Home/publications/publications/spokenwordfinalreport.aspx
Spoken Word set out to induce students and their teachers to consider what it means to ‘write on and for the internet’, and to develop an environment which allowed them to do that. This meant: providing tools and technologies; coping with intellectual property rights; supplying engaging and valuable content; and encouraging [...]

CETIS Support Project (Design for Learning)

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/Home/publications/publications/elpsupportfinalreport.aspx
CETIS’ background in programme and project support along with its leading role in the development and promotion of IMS Learning Design was drawn upon to support the JISC Design for Learning programme; which builds on previous JISC programmes and provided an ideal opportunity to synthesise the pedagogical and technical / implementation [...]

Fostering Learning in the Networked World: The Cyberlearning Opportunity and Challenge

http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf08204
This year, I have had the opportunity to serve on a task force established jointly by the US National Science Foundation’s Office of Cyberinfrastructure and the Directorate for Education and Human Resources which looked at issues involving the use of cyberinfrastructure to advance teaching and learning, complementing much of the earlier discussion of cyberinfrastructure which [...]

Journal of Online Learning and Teaching

http://jolt.merlot.org/
MERLOT is a free and open resource designed primarily for faculty and students of higher education. The MERLOT Journal of Online Learning and Teaching (JOLT) is a peer-reviewed, online publication addressing the scholarly use of multimedia resources in education. JOLT is published quarterly in March, June, September, and December. The objectives [...]