National Teaching and Learning
Change Programme
Improving teaching and learning in Adult Learning

Themes | E-learning and e-assessment | Further development | Skills

Themes

• Introduction
• Assessment
• Improving teaching and learning
• Planning learning and reviewing progress
• E-learning and e-assessment
  • The technology
  • Benefits of e-learning
  • Benefits of e-assessment
  • Getting started
  • Differentiation
  • Challenges
  • Relevance
  • Equality and diversity
  • E-learning and disability
  • Further development
    • Skills, support, resources
    • www.aclearn.net

Skills

How can I get the most out of e-technology?

For clear practical advice, the QIA's Modern Foreign Languages Continuing professional development toolkit CD-ROM has a useful section on e-learning covering these areas. It can be adapted for other subject areas.

Another good reference for using the Internet is NIACE e-guide #1 Online resources in the classroom.

New browser window: www.niace.org.uk/publications/O/OnlineResources.asp

Digital cameras

Niace e-guide #2 Digital Cameras in Teaching and Learning includes ideas for picture stories.

New browser window: www.niace.org.uk/publications/D/DigitalCameras.asp

Interactive whiteboards

There are sources of information about interactive whiteboards. Try the indicated links. The last one shows how they can be used in ESOL teaching and learning.

New browser window: www.nwnet.org.uk/pages/index.html
|New browser window: ferl.becta.org.uk/display.cfm?resID=1393

Resources that are interactive

This can be an expensive and complicated option as NIACE e-guide #3 shows. See the links on this site for examples of interactives.

New browser window: www.niace.org.uk/publications/D/DevelopingElearning.asp

E-learning to get learners learning actively

Get learners to explore the Internet by doing Webquests.

E-assessment

There are a number of other e-assessment tools available on registration, such as Hot Potatoes, that can be used to devise quizzes and puzzles.

New browser window: web.uvic.ca/hrd/hotpot/
Some of the interactive examples above also show an assessment element.

Skills for Life tests are readily available.

New browser window: www.edexcel.org.uk/sfc/onscreen/alan-test/
|New browser window: www.move-on.org.uk/testyourskills.asp