Effective Practice with e-Learning Guidelines
These guidelines have been developed jointly by the MoE and Massey University. The objective of the guidelines is to support practitioners who are considering adopting or who have already adopted e-learning as a means to enhance the quality of learning and teaching at their institutions. The guidelines have been created by merging an existing set of e-CDF created guidelines by Massey with Ministry of Education collected case studies from across the tertiary sector. The guidelines are hosted on an interactive ‘wiki’ type environment where practitioners can (amongst other things) obtain information and add case studies of their own if they wish to.
Exploring contributions to scholarship in e-learning: weighing up the evidence
This examines articles from three recent three journals in order to draw some
preliminary conclusions about the kind of contributions e-learning can make that may be regarded as valuable in advancing the scholarship of teaching and learning.
Navigating the Maze: Teaching and Learning an emergent futures methodology for strategic thinking
This provides detail on what makes the Navigating the Maze program successful for senior managers from government, industry/business and community organisations in planning for the future of their organisations.
e-Portfolios
Latest article on e-portfolios from Edna (the Australian online education network)
Web 2.0: Building the New Library
This article explores the concept of 'Web 2.0' and asks what it means for libraries and related organisations.
Putting the Library into the Institution: Using JSR 168 and WSRP to Enable Search within Portal Frameworks
This article describes the investigations and technical development undertaken within the JISC-funded Contextual Resource Evaluation Environment (CREE) Project to enable the presentation of existing search tools within portal frameworks using the JSR 168 and WSRP portlet standards.
OECD Survey on e-Learning in Tertiary Education (PDF 192 KB, v1.4)
The OECD, in partnership with the UK-based Observatory on Borderless Higher Education (OBHE), has carried out a survey of e-learning in 19 tertiary education institutions in 13 countries. The qualitative findings of the project were complemented by an OBHE survey of online learning in Commonwealth universities undertaken in 2004.
The Policy Brief below looks at the results of these surveys, and likely future trends in e-learning at university.
Free Computing Courses at Tertiary Education Providers in New Zealand (Microsoft Word Document 356 KB, 97-2003)
The objective of the "Free Computers" project was to carry out some initial research on free short computing courses running throughout New Zealand.
Free short courses offering basic-level computer training have been available since 2000 from a number of institutions throughout New Zealand, mainly polytechnics and institutes of technology, and some private training establishments. By 2003 the number of institutions offering such courses had increased and some research was proposed to survey all tertiary education institutions offering the courses and the students enrolled in them.
The focus for the research was to provide specified information for the Ministry of Education. It was believed the research findings would also provide some base line information that could be useful for institutions planning further courses and for government departments involved in formulating policy relating to e-literacy levels, access issues, employment readiness and productivity.
“Thwarted Innovation – What Happened to e-Learning and why”
Robert Zemsky and William O. Massy (PDF 1.78 MB, v1.4)
"Thwarted Innovation" is a major study from the University of Pennsylvania in collaboration with the Thomson Corporation. It answers the question "Why did the boom in e-learning go bust?" Researchers Robert Zemsky and William 0. Massy used e-learning weatherstations at campuses across the US to decipher precisely what happened and why.
Sloan-C Review “Thwarted Innovation – What Happened to e-Learning and why” Robert Zemsky and William O. Massy (PDF 29 KB, v1.4)
This report counters many of the findings in the above report and should be read in conjunction with it for a more balanced view of US tertiary e-learning developments.
Coming of Age: An Introduction to the new World Wide Web (PDF 1.94 MB, v1.3)
A guide to new web technologies, and their application to learning. This is useful not only for highlighting possibilities and issues, but also as a practical guide.
The Digital Divide 2004
The aim of this report is to examine whether a digital divide exists in New Zealand and if so, to identify the main household characteristics which influence this divide.
Case Studies – Creative Commons and attitudes to content sharing (PDF 81 KB, v1.4)
Demands for greater freedom in content distribution and use are associated with new possibilities afforded by the convergence of information and communications technologies (ICTs) and learner-centred education.
The paper listed below uses case studies to briefly explore how Creative Commons copyright licenses (creativecommons.org) are assisting in managing copyright in a way that enables these more liberal approaches to digital content distribution, editing and redistribution in tertiary education.
Rights Management: Overviews and Advice
Website dedicated to ownership and licensing issues in an open source context
10 Big myths about copyright explained
This article attempt to answer common myths about copyright seen on the net and cover issues related to copyright and USENET/Internet publication.
Learning Design and Pedagogy – Key Publications - Theory and Practice of Online Learning
Comprehensive publication on the theory and practice of online learning
The Impact of Technology on the Quality of Teaching and Learning in Tertiary Institutions: Literature Review by Bronwyn Hegarty (PDF 333 KB, v1.4)
The aim of this paper is to explore literature related to educational e-learning systems and to discuss whether web-based delivery of educational programmes does infact provide quality teaching and learning which is effective.
Newsletters
e-Learn Watch
This section provides access to newsletters which provide information on the latest national and international developments in tertiary e-learning
EDUCAUSE Review
This magazine is designed for teachers and others developing, managing, evaluating and using information resources.
Presentations
Brian Pauling’s e-Learning Thesis: PowerPoint presentation (PPT, 1.73 MB, v97-2003)
Institutions of higher education are no longer ‘ivory towers’ of isolated splendour. They are increasingly challenged by:
- Government intervention in educational policies
- Economic rationalism
- Consumer demand
- Technological change which enables globalisation and the rise of techno-capitalism
Given the existence of these ‘forces of change’ is it possible to predict what impact, if any, they may have on the role of small institutions, in small English speaking countries, with relatively advanced systems of education (i.e. New Zealand)?
Don’t Teach Me – Help Me Learn! – Presentation by Shona Butterfield to the Third Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning in 2004 (PDF, 115 KB, v1.4 )
Don't Teach Me - Help Me Learn! touches on the needs of learners in their different contexts, and on an institutional response to the provision of quality education. Shona Butterfield's paper provides an overview of some of the approaches being implemented in New Zealand today and discusses some of the developments she has seen in e-Learning.
E-Learning and Libraries: Interoperability Update (PDF, 353 KB, v1.4)
A presentation by Neil McLean.