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Innovative Projects (non-Languages)
Coalition for Learning Innovation
Coalition for Learning Innovation Based at the University of Stirling, the CLI: "is committed to advancing the use of a variety of resources, including although not restricted to Communication and Information Technologies (C⁢), to provide more effective, efficient and varied forms of inquiry, teaching, and learning across the University. This commitment will be driven by pedagogic considerations, well informed by technology foresight." The CLI host seminars and workshops, and runs electronic discussion groups for staff at the University of Stirling, to facilitate cooperation and information-sharing Glasgow University Initiative in Distance Education GUIDE was established in August 1997 to promote and support Distance Education (DE) across Glasgow University, and integrate it into "systems, structures, and networks" of the University. The aims of GUIDE are described on the website as: To encourage, support and co-ordinate the development of quality distance education at the University of Glasgow. To establish an academic centre from which departments in the University can derive advice and support on distance education. To gather, produce and disseminate scholarship and research in distance education, in particular, examples of good practice and innovation. To investigate and influence policy, systems, structures, resources and practices that affect, and will be affected by, distance education in the University. To contribute to the University as a learning organisation by providing a forum for informed debate and staff development in practical and theoretical aspects of distance education. Scottish Cultural Resources Network SCRAN is a Millennium Project to build a networked multimedia resource base for the study, teaching and appreciation of history and material culture in Scotland. It has over half a million pages of history and culture with photos, objects, art, movies and audio. Scottish Higher Education Funding Council (SHEFC) C⁢ programme ScotCit funds a number of technologically-innovative projects at Scottish universities in the areas of Generic Webtools, Intranets, and Staff Development. The SCAAN and VLS projects, described below, are funded by ScotCit. Scottish Computer Assisted Assessment Network A collaborative project of the universities of Glasgow, Heriot-Watt and Strathclyde, SCAAN "seeks to encourage the use of web-based assessment in Scottish Higher Education". The project produces technical documentation and runs workshops on the topic of online assessment, and is evaluating three "assessment engines" (TRIADS, Miranda, WebTest). It's also producing an "IMS Question Builder", online software allowing authors to create questions in the non-proprietary IMS Question & Test Interoperability Specification to "allow the interoperability of content within assessment systems". Scottish Centre for Research into On-Line Learning and Assessment SCROLLA is a 3-year project funded by the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council (SHEFC) to provide "a focus for multidisciplinary research into the use of Information and Communication Technologies in education concentrating on on-line learning and assessment". Virtual Learning Space The Virtual Learning Space (VLS) is an online environment dedicated to the learning of C⁢ via collaboration. The project holds workshops and seminars on distance learning, and the website holds resources and discussion fora to enable members to collaborate, share resources, and learn from each other. Each month the VLS runs a Topic of the Month online discussion, hosted by an invited expert in the field under discussion. The VLS website is designed around a learner-oriented "socio-constructivist" pedagogy, as described in the following papers written by members of the VLS team:
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