1. HEFCE eLearning Strategy Dr Liz Beaty Director (Learning and Teaching) HEFCE

2. Outline • Context • Background • An eLearning strategy • Programme of developments

3. A vision for higher education • A defining moment for Higher Education • HE at the heart of the economy and society • Globalisation and regional regeneration • HEIs judged by international standards • Increase and widen participation • Era of lifelong learning and mass HE • Fundamental shift to just for you learning

4. eLearning the story to date • Infrastructure • Providing network, digital resources, research and development through JISC, Capital funding. • Teaching Quality Enhancement Fund • Institutional L&T strategies • LTSN and project funding • NTFS • eUniversities • Exploration of wholly e-based learning including business approaches, interoperability, platform/services, international cooperation, global markets.

5. From background support to embedding in L&T • The pervasiveness of the Internet, Web etc and changing student and employer expectations. • Innovation and blending of approaches to learning and teaching • Wholly e-based learning.

6. Post White Paper – Learning and Teaching Strategy • Integrate human resource strategies with learning and teaching strategies • Recognition and reward • Professional standards • Focus on flexible learning opportunities • Work-based learning • Distance learning • Credit and progression • Support developments in pedagogy including • Online learning • Blended approaches • Personal Development support

7. The strategy will cover: - • Research and development in eLearning • Strategic/change management • Curriculum design and developments in pedagogy • Human resources • Learning resources • Collaboration • Progression and student support • Quality • Infrastructure

8. Embedding eLearning into HEFCE funded learning and teaching programmes • Professional standards for teaching • Increased rewards for excellence • Growth of the NTFS • Centres of Teaching Excellence • The Academy for Higher Education • Pedagogic research • Subject networks • Professional accreditation • Policy advice

9. Some challenges • Keeping the focus on learning • Leadership for change management • Focus on demand rather than supply • Costing and pricing of eLearning • Marketing and competition • Cooperation for critical mass • Thinking out of the box – what if - - - - -