Successful Funding Bids

The School of Law has won funding from the City Solicitors Educational Trust (CSET) towards a new post to support e-learning development in the School. CSET is a charitable trust funded by a number of top lawyers' firms, which makes grants to a small selection of law schools each year for projects which will enhance core legal teaching. The award to MMU, worth £60,000 over three years from September 2008, will enable the School of Law to build on its existing WebCT provision to embed e-learning within its learning, teaching and assessment strategy for the LLB degree programmes. The post-holder's initial focus will be on developing flexible learning resources to enhance essential legal skills.

Eddie Higgins

MMU has been awarded £25000 to undertake a fourteen month project under the JISC ‘Repurposing & reuse of digital University-level content and evaluation (RePRODUCE)’initiative . The project entitled ‘Quality reaggregation of learning objects to introduce the WWW and Multimedia’ is led by Dr Peter McKenna, in the Department of Computing and Maths. The project will identify and catalogue external e-learning material and use criteria based on current research to select interactive, elaborative, and constructivist learning objects that add value to the learning process within the core Level 1 unit, ‘Introduction to Multimedia and the WWW’.  The materials will be integrated into a Learning Design (LD) in collaboration with Liverpool Hope University, and blended with other learning and teaching approaches. The reaggregation process will be pedagogically-driven, and the project will explore the pedagogical, strategic and technical issues around and obstacles to the effective uptake of reusable content.