SONET - Educational Technology Group 
SONET - Educational Technology Group This section contains links to case studies, surveys and reports of e-learning in action, in the UK and worldwide.
Subtitled "A good practice guide in designing for learning" and published in 2004, this is a free JISC publication "built around a sequence of ten case studies illustrating practitioners’ solutions to day-to-day challenges", and is available online or if you ask Sarah Knight at JISC nicely she'll send you a shiny printed copy.
A database of 65 case studies in online learning, as submitted to the Online Tutoring Skills (OTiS) workshop in 2000. OTiS also publishes the immensely useful Online Tutoring e-Book, and case studies in e-learning.
The SOLE project, funded by LTSN and JISC, carried out research between October 2002 and March 2004 and 10 UK universities and 2 FE Colleges on student's usage of Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs). The website has a number of case study reports covering a range of subjects, as well as a discourse analysis of the research.
A report on visits, in October and November 2003, to nine different educational institutions in the North-East of the USA, to survey current practice in e-learning in healthcare. The report is available in ebook format, and requires downloading an executable file (wcbook2.exe) to run on your computer. Author: Shalni Gulati.
A report, written in Jan 2003 for the Florence Nightingale Foundation, on visits by the author to healthcare education centres in the UK and the USA, including our own School, to learn about their current e-learning activities. The report concludes with a number of recommendations for institutional e-learning based on the author's findings. Author: Mike Farrell, Project Manager, Cumbria and Lancashire Workforce Development Confederation.
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