Since 2001 Sheffield Hallam University has made a commitment to encouraging the use of e-learning to enhance the student experience. From the start, this commitment was underpinned by six guiding principles, rather than being led by the technology itself.  Although many of the principles are recognised by staff as being reasons why they personally engage with e-learning – the principles themselves are not well known as a group, or as the reasons why the University encourages e-learning.

We’ll be exploring one of these principles each week on the blog for the next six weeks, but if you’d like a preview you can read all of them in a handout we’ve created.  Each of the principles is supported by student quotes from research into how our students use technology to support and enhance their learning.

Sessions exploring these reasons why individual staff engage; the guiding principles behind e-learning at Sheffield Hallam and the student experience of e-learning are being planned for February and March.  These sessions will serve as a means of sharing practice, and a way of identifying future development needs.  More details about these sessions will be disseminated shortly.