Leicestershire Adult Learning Service: Improving students' experience by increasing independent study

Leicestershire Adult Learning Service’s lead tutor Sarabjit Borrill has been using blended learning effectively in apprentice training for several years. Building on what she has learned in that time, she made 2015/ 16 the year to explore similar approaches with Skills for life students studying GCSE English.

Priestley College: How do you successfully develop your new learning space? ...ask your students, of course!

When Priestley College began to plan the redevelopment of its learning resource centre, it continued the culture of student involvement that exists within the College by asking students to help plan and create the new development. This case study describes how the Jisc infoKit on 'Planning and Designing Technology-Rich Learning Spaces' was used as the starting point for ideas and planning, and how the finished development was the recognisable result of students' ideas and plans.

The CAMEL Project: Collaborative Approaches to the Management of E-Learning

CAMEL is short for Collaborative Approaches to the Management of e-Learning and was a project funded by the HEFCE Leadership, Governance and Management programme. It set out to explore how institutions who were making effective use of e-learning and who were collaborating in regional lifelong learning partnerships might be able to learn from each other in a Community of Practice based around study visits to each of the partner institutions. This short publication highlights some of the things CAMEL participants found out about e-learning and about each other.

Curriculum innovation: pragmatic approaches to transforming learning and teaching through technologies

This report draws together outcomes from the JISC Curriculum Delivery Programme on behalf of JISC and includes recommendations for further investigation.

Case study: Using social media to engage students with learning difficulties

Case study on Calderdale College using the social learning network Edmodo to support students with learning difficulties or disabilities to engage with social media.

Moodle Accessibility for Students with Specific Learning Difficulties

A guide by Birmingham City University to raise staff awareness