Baking in the baselines and evaluating the recipe for success
Laura Hollinshead, Senior Lecturer in Education, Institution: University of Derby
Evolving from the need to provide a more consistent experience for students within the digital environment, the University of Derby developed Digital Learning Baselines, partly in response to the pandemic in 2020, these have now become established within the institution through regular mandatory training and a quality assurance and enhancement process to monitor their delivery and support academic staff to develop this practice. Recent research at the institution has sought to evaluate the impact of the ‘Digital Baseline Review’ on the development of academic practices as well as the role of the learning technologist in support this. The presentation will provide a short overview of the baking in process taken and how by evaluating the recipe (the baselines) the university is now in a position to judge their success.
More than a document repository? Exploring the importance of learning design on VLE module development.
Danon Pritchard, Programme Director of the Solicitors’ Practice Programme, The City Law School
Danon will discuss her phenomenographic study which explored student and staff attitudes to VLE module site learning design across several HEI’s in the UK.
Designing, developing and evaluating programme-level templates in Moodle.
Thomas Hanley,
Senior Educational Technologist, and Connie Tse, Learning Technologist, City, University of London
Brief session summary: This talk will cover the Moodle consistency project carried out at City over the last 18 months. It will include an overview of City's Moodle module checklist, how we worked with programme teams, the challenges in developing a large number of modules in a short space of time, evaluation and how future plans.
Promoting predictable and intuitive experiences within the VLE.
Tom Tomlinson, Teaching Enhancement Officer, University of Hull
Tom will summarise the key principles behind our Instructional Design Framework and share insights on the development, deployment, and reception of the framework.
