{"id":682,"date":"2011-02-02T08:20:15","date_gmt":"2011-02-02T08:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/?p=682"},"modified":"2011-02-02T08:20:15","modified_gmt":"2011-02-02T08:20:15","slug":"enabling-staff-to-easily-use-a-vle-to-support-course-delivery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/2011\/02\/02\/enabling-staff-to-easily-use-a-vle-to-support-course-delivery\/","title":{"rendered":"Enabling staff to easily use a VLE to support course delivery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aimed at e-Learning developers, this case study draws on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jisc.ac.uk\/\">JISC<\/a>-funded <a href=\"http:\/\/cascade.conted.ox.ac.uk\">Cascade<\/a> project\u2019s experience of designing tools, systems and resources to enable academic and administrative staff to easily use a VLE to support course delivery.<\/p>\n<p>This suggests that using technology to support a course delivered either fully online, largely face-to\u2013face or via blended learning, can provide real value to both staff and students. \u00a0However, it is easy to do this in such a way that it creates more work without fully delivering on the potential benefits.\u00a0 Avoid this by:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Identifying where and how technology really adds value;<\/li>\n<li>Developing tools and procedures that make it easy for all staff to set up and use a VLE;<\/li>\n<li>Embedding support within existing cycles of work, wherever possible;<\/li>\n<li>Ensuring adequate support and guidance is available to prevent basic barriers;<\/li>\n<li>Providing cost- and time-effective options to ensure services are sustainable.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read the full case study at:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/cascade.conted.ox.ac.uk\/sites\/cascade.conted.ox.ac.uk\/files\/CascadeCaseStudy4.doc\">Cascade Case Study 4: Enabling staff to easily use a VLE to support course delivery<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aimed at e-Learning developers, this case study draws on the JISC-funded Cascade project\u2019s experience of designing tools, systems and resources to enable academic and administrative staff to easily use a VLE to support course delivery. This suggests that using technology &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/2011\/02\/02\/enabling-staff-to-easily-use-a-vle-to-support-course-delivery\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,29,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cascade","category-jisc","category-moodle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=682"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":694,"href":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682\/revisions\/694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}