E-Learning Production Service

We can fund pieces of e-learning development that an individual academic may not have the time or skills to do themselves.  We talk over the planned work with you, provide you with an E-Learning Assistant, and just ask that you feed back about the development through our Practitioner Network.

What is it?

Traditionally, at the E-Learning Unit, we have been able to offer guidance and training to staff to develop their e-learning initiatives.  However, for larger or technically complex projects, we have found that a number of good ideas are never realised simply because we can’t help with production. The E-Learning Production Service helps us plug that gap and enables us to offer valuable resource to staff who have good ideas for e-learning, but perhaps not the time or skills to get the project started.

If we are able to fund your project under the Scheme, we will recruit and train an E-Learning Assistant to work on it with you.  The assistant will be a student from within Queen Mary who will work under the direction of a Learning Technologist from the E-Learning Unit.  You will of course retain control of your project, but it will benefit from both guidance from ELU and extra resource through a dedicated E-Learning Assistant.

What we will fund

We will fund projects that are tightly defined in scope and can be completed within a single academic year.  The scheme is not able to supplement general teaching budgets nor provide regular funding for ongoing projects, but exists instead to provide a “kick–start” to new initiatives.

For an idea of the kinds of projects we fund, please see our Current Projects at http://www.learninginstitute.qmul.ac.uk/elearning/services/production/current-projects/.

As a general guide, if your project:

  • is a new venture for you or your course;
  • makes use of learning technologies;
  • is small – i.e. requires under 100 hours of an E-Learning Assistant’s time; and
  • should not necessarily be funded with your existing teaching budget

then we will probably fund it.  If you are not sure, get in touch anyway and we can discuss it.

How it works

If you have an e-learning idea you would like to pursue, then tell us a bit about it using our online form (http://www.learninginstitute.qmul.ac.uk/elearning/services/production/application-form/).  We will contact you to let you know whether it is something we are able to fund and to find out more details.

The next stage is to meet with a Learning Technologist and work them to define your requirements, agree on the level of funding (usually stated as a maximum number of hours of an Assistant) and identify what role your E-Learning Assistant should take.  We will take the time to recruit a suitable student – if you have a student in mind, you can put them forward – and then we’re ready to start.

What we want from you

Our aim in running this service is to encourage a culture of innovation in the uses of learning technologies across Queen Mary.  We hope to increase both the number and variety of activities, but also to disseminate good practice to colleagues across College.

All we ask of you then, is to agree to share your experience with others through either a written case-study or interview on our website, or perhaps a presentation of your work at a Teaching and Learning seminar.

What next?

That’s all – if you’re interested in being involved, please get in touch here.

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