Stimulating and Supporting Innovation in Learning

As Subject Learning Coaches, eGuides, Practitioners, Managers etc., it is important to ask, what is the established practice within your organisation, i.e. when practitioners and learners...

1. Negotiate learning goals?
2. Explore new concepts?
3. Evaluate facts and concepts?
4. Build and test theories?
5. Solve problems?
6. Share and discuss?
7. Apply concepts and skills?
8. Visualise and present concepts?
9. Assess for learning? (Not of Learning)

And then to ask what advantages can eLearning bring?

Does the technology make learning better?
Does it make assessment better?
Does it make learning more enjoyable?

As many of you know already, there are a huge number of freely available Open Source authoring applications, and other tools, to assist teachers / academics and learners in the publishing of web content without the need to become proficient in HTML or XML mark-up or Java or any other programming languages.

In this supplement we will look at ‘Free' tools that can be used to gather, record, present learner evidence and/or teaching resources and enhance both the teaching and learning of Science, Engineering & Mathematics.