Teaching and Learning Portal
"Integrating Moodle into your teaching improves students' active learning, saves time and augments what you already do."
Dr Helen Chatterjee, Genetics, Evolution and Environment
QUICK LINKS
- Lecturecast: A system for recording lectures and events and making them available online
- Moodle: A virtual learning environment which enhances teaching by allowing staff to create their courses online
- Electronic voting systems: Teaching tools to establish students' knowledge and opinions
- E-Learning Environments (ELE): Supporting staff and students at UCL to use technology to enhance teaching and learning
- E-Learning Strategy 2012-2015
Teaching tools and technologies
'E-learning' describes teaching and learning methods that are supported or facilitated by the use of technology. This could include accessing teaching resources and activities online; communication tools and multimedia; online assessment; and classroom technologies such as personal response systems and interactive whiteboards.
A key benefit of e-learning is the increased opportunity for dialogue it offers to students and teachers, which in turn enhances the learning experience.
E-learning at UCL
UCL supports a number of technologies to facilitate e-learning. Click the links to find out more about each tool:
- Moodle enables students and lecturers to interact within a collaborative virtual learning environment where course materials can be easily managed and accessed.
- Lecturecast allows teachers to record, edit and broadcast their lectures online. This is particularly advantageous for students whose first language is not English and for those with learning disabilities.
- Electronic voting systems (EVS) can help lecturers gauge how much students know about a topic; using EVS also enlivens the student learning experience.
- Turnitin is a tool designed to deter and detect plagiarism, whereby submitted work is scanned against a large database of websites, books, journals and previously submitted papers.
- MyPortfolio is an online space where students can store all their notes and work, allowing access to as few or as many people as they like.
- Web conferencing is ideal for long-distance learning, allowing students to watch and participate in teaching sessions as they happen.
- Open educational resources allow academics to share their work online for free - something that UCL is committed to doing with all its research.
Read the proposed E-Learning Strategy for 2012-2015.
Contact
For information, training and support on using UCL's e-learning tools and technologies, contact E-Learning Environments (ELE).
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Tell us about the inspiring teaching and learning taking place in your department: email ele.cooper@ucl.ac.uk or call 020 7679 5992 (internal extension 45992).
