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Key Skills By Design: Adapting A Central Web Resource To The Departmental Context, Claire Mcavinia
Key Skills By Design: Adapting A Central Web Resource To The Departmental Context, Claire Mcavinia
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Web-based delivery of support materials for students has proved to be a popular way of helping small teams to implement key skills policies within universities. The development of ‘key’ or ‘transferable’ skills is now encouraged throughout education, but resources (both in terms of staffing and budget) tend to be limited. It is difficult for key skills teams to see learners face to face, and not feasible to print or distribute large amounts of paper-based material. Web-based delivery presents a means of overcoming these problems but it can result in generic study skills material simply being published online without due consideration …
Using A Toolkit To Support Practioner Evaluation, Jen Harvey, Grainne Conole, Ed Crew, Martin Oliver
Using A Toolkit To Support Practioner Evaluation, Jen Harvey, Grainne Conole, Ed Crew, Martin Oliver
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What Does 'Impact' Mean In The Evaluation Of Learning Technology, Jen Harvey, Martin Oliver
What Does 'Impact' Mean In The Evaluation Of Learning Technology, Jen Harvey, Martin Oliver
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Whilst many projects in Higher Education are expected to demonstrate their impact, quite what this requirement means is often left unspecified. This paper draws on the experiences of the EFFECTS project in an attempt to illuminate this issue. The EFFECTS evaluation framework is used to structure this discussion, which explores the complexities associated with identifying impact in terms of student learning, changes in practice for academics, changes within an organisation and national development. Common themes arising from these areas are then identified.