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ASSAP: Enhancing HE English teaching (English Subject Centre): The purpose of this project is to create a collection of freely available resources that might be used by English or Creative Writing lecturers, especially those following accredited courses in HEIs, to develop or refresh their teaching practice.
Project completed: Ongoing
Tags: E-learning, New lecturers, Seminar teaching

Creative Writing: using technology for on-screen and online workshopping (Bath Spa): This project will explore new and more flexible ways of workshopping in the Creative Writing classroom, involving on-line and on-screen sharing of documents in real-time with the tutor present. The aim is to increase the amount of interaction between the students and potentially transform the workshop paradigm by allowing greater flexibility in annotation and editing, and comparison among peers of their editing suggestions.
Project completed: Ongoing
Tags: Creative Writing. E-learning

Developing on-line materials to support progression from FE to HE English Programmes (Blackpool and the Fylde): This project involves the development and delivery of online materials for students throughout their time at the college, but targeted at problematic transition periods in their learning career. Materials are being written by subject specialists from the college, who have an understanding of the students’ difficulties, supported by teaching and learning specialists and learning technology experts from the college and JISC.; Project completed: Ongoing
Tags: E-learning, HE in FE, Student Recruitment / Retention

Virtual printing press (Bath Spa and Loughborough): This project built a three-dimensional virtual model of a printing press of the kind used to print books in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. The model is of sufficient quality and interactivity to be used effectively for teaching purposes.; Project completed: December 2009; Tags: History of the book, E-learning

The HumBox project (English Subject Centre): The HumBox project created a bank of quality humanities resources online for free download and sharing, and in doing so, created a community of Humanities specialists who are willing to share their teaching materials and collaborate with others to peer review and enhance existing resources.; Project completed: May 2010; Tags: E-learning

The potential of ‘Inspiration’ software for Dyslexic Students: This study will provide information about the experience of dyslexic students studying English, an area about which very little is currently known, and will include an investigation of how Inspiration mind mapping software might assist them.; Project completed: Ongoing; Tags: Diversity & Inclusion, E-learning

WikiOmeros (Warwick): This project produced a student-led collaborative commentary on Derek Walcott’s Omeros. The commentary includes glossaries, biographies, historical notes and intertextual references.; Project completed: April 2009; Tags: Poetry, Post-colonial literature, E-learning, Walcott

Embedding E-learning using E-learning Advocates - 07/08 (English Subject Centre): This project investigated a range of different departmentally based models for supporting the development of e-learning in English Studies. It buildt upon a similar project run in the 06/07 academic year. The four ' Advocates' worked closely with their colleagues to enhance their undertanding and uses of digital tools, virtual learning environments. hardware etc in their teaching.; Project completed: September 2008; Tags: E-learning

Theatron 3: Educational undertakings in Second Life (English Subject Centre): The project involved the importing of a range of pre-existing 3D theatre models into the Second life environment and supplementing these with existing and new interpretative content and a spectrum of original interactive tools, scenarios and automated tutorials.; Project completed: July 2009; Tags: Dramatic arts, E-learning

Word Webs: Exploring Vocabulary (Glasgow): This project aimed to demonstrate how a knowledge of vocabulary, and of the ways words develop and interrelate, can illuminate the study of texts and the cultures in which they are embedded. Through the use of electronic resources it explored two major linguistic areas of relevance to students of English Language and Literature: (1) The growth of the English vocabulary, and (2) The vocabulary of literature. The result was an interactive web-site designed to engage student interest through content, tasks and suggestions for project work.; Project completed: June 2008; Tags: English language, The Subject Centre in Scotland, E-learning

ORB - A Virtual Reality Literary Magazine (Hertfordshire): This project created an online Virtual Reality literary magazine, Orb, hosted in Second Life, that featured creative work by UK university students. The magazine's editorial and production boards was staffed by students and supervised by university staff members. The first issue launched on 23 October 2007.; Project completed: October 2008; Tags: Creative Writing. E-learning

Teaching and Reading Byron in Context (Nottingham): This project produced an interactive set of learning materials focusing on letters from Byron to the Pigot family and manuscripts of several short poems written by Lord Byron during his residence at Burgage Manor during the winter of 1806/07. The provision of introductory and explanatory material makes the resource accessible to general readers, and more detailed material highlighting issues of relevance for literary, cultural and historical studies renders it useful for teachers and learners in 6th form, as well as at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.; Project completed: May 2009; Tags: Romantic literature, E-learning, Byron

Embedding E-learning using E-learning Advocates - 06/07 (English Subject Centre): This project investigated a range of different departmentally based models for supporting the development of e-learning in English Studies. The six ' Advocates' worked closely with their colleagues to enhance their undertanding and uses of digital tools, virtual learning environments, hardware etc in their teaching.; Project completed: September 2007; Tags: E-learning

Creative Assessment in the English Literature degree: Towards Criteria for Assessment (Hull): This project is investigating creative and innovative approaches to the support and assessment of student learning, by the use of the visual image.; Project completed: Ongoing; Tags: Assessment, E-learning

Repurposing Digital Research Archives (Sheffield): This project will collect examples of good practice in the pedagogical use of digital text archives and explore future possibilities through seminar-room trials. The project will produce a good practice guide on the teaching uses of digital text archives and a collection of case studies.; Project completed: 2007; Tags: E-learning

Old English online coursepack (Oxford): This project involved the development of an online coursepack centred around the Old English 1st-year paper at Oxford, will bringing together texts, images, and secondary material to assist teaching and learning.; Project completed: April 2000; Tags: E-learning, Old English literature

‘Odour of Chrysanthemums’: the digitisation of manuscripts and papers relating to D.H. Lawrence’s with supporting pedagogic materials (Nottingham): This project involved the digitisation of materials concerning D.H. Lawrence’s short story ‘Odour of Chrysanthemums’ and the development of supporting pedagogical materials.; Project completed: March 2010; Tags: Edwardian literature, Lawrence, E-learning

Creating and Assessing Discussion Forums in English Studies (Wolverhampton): This project aimed to investigate best practice for design and assessment strategies of VLE discussion forums in English studies. It has resulted in the development of a Good Practice Guide to design, moderation and assessment of discussion boards within English Literature, Language and Creative Writing contexts.; Project completed: May 2010; Tags: Assessment, E-learning, Seminar teaching

Learning and Teaching with the Thesaurus of Old English (Glasgow): This project exploits the potential of the electronic version of the Thesaurus of Old English by offering an online package containing subsets of data, notes on its use, and background information necessary for its interpretation.; Project completed: January 2007; Tags: The Subject Centre in Scotland, E-learning, Old English literature, English Language

New Tools for Creative Interpretation: An Investigative Study using Digital Video and Computer Animation (Oxford): This project looked at two new forms of activities to enhance the ways students can engage with a text and critically interpret it - Digital video and Digital animation.; Project completed: June 2006; Tags: E-learning

Interdisciplinarity and On-Line Learning: Fiction in the Victorian and Edwardian provincial press (Teesside): This project involved researching and creating a web-based module which concentrated on research and writing skills, helping students make the transition from A-level directed work to university self-directed study.; Project completed: Ongoing; Tags: Edwardian literature, E-learning, Interdisciplinarity, Victorian literature

How do I reference an article again? Information Literacy & E-Learning (Newcastle): This project involved researching and creating a web-based module which concentrated on research and writing skills, helping students make the transition from A-level directed work to university self-directed study.; Project completed: April 2007; Tags: E-learning, Literacy & Writing skills

Teaching and Assessing Writing Skills (Glasgow): This project developed a package for web-based teaching and assessment of basic writing skills, designed to be part of a blended learning programme relevant to and adaptable by any UK HE English department.; Project completed: September 2009; Tags: The Subject Centre in Scotland, Assessment, E-learning, Literacy & Writing Skills

Reusing Learning Materials in English Literature and Language (Oxford): The principle aim of this project was to investigate what the possibilities and/or barriers to re-use of learning materials in English studies . A series of learning design sequences built using the LAMS authoring environment were also studied as a practical example of a type of learning resource that could be shared.; Project completed: September 2005; Tags: E-learning

Teaching metrics using EVS (Electronic Voting System) handsets (Glasgow): This project was a pilot scheme for developing possible uses of electronic voting system (EVS) handsets in English Literature lectures. The pilot used the handsets to help teach metrical analysis of poetry.; Project completed: September 2005; Tags: Poetry, The Subject Centre in Scotland, Assessment, E-learning

Pilot online writing resource (Nottingham Trent): This uncompleted pilot project aimed to select and contextualise key materials from within the TRACE online writing website to create a portal for HE teachers and researchers working with online writing, and made recommendations for development of the project beyond the pilot stage.; Project terminated: June 2005; Tags: Creative Writing , E-learning

Web-based resources for teaching, research and general use, on Robert Bloomfield and Thomas Chatterton (Nottingham Trent): The project developed web-based resources on the less well-known Romantic poets Robert Bloomfield and Thomas Chatterton. This material is useful as a source of postgraduate research and general information, but its primary focus is on creating a resource for teaching, particularly at undergraduate and sixth-form level.
Project completed: August 2010

Producing and Researching Effectiveness of Materials for Computer Supported Experiential Learning in the Area of Advanced Literacy Skills (Central England): The aim of the project was to produce interactive web-based materials which could be used to support student learning in the context of a tutorial session based module on study skills/essay writing skills for English Studies.; Project completed: March 2006; Tags: E-learning, Literacy & Writing skills

The Duologue Project (Durham): This project aimed to develop, expand and assess resources developed for English Studies within a Virtual Learning Environment.; Project completed: September 2004; Tags: E-learning

Digital Resources for Teaching & Discussion (English Subject Centre): This collection of learning and teaching resources presents a number of ways in which digital resources can assist learning and teaching and is designed to stimulate discussion about the use of digital resources in the discipline.; Project completed: June 2004; Tags: Dramatic arts, Shakespeare, E-learning

Sam Weller learns to read : the origins of the reading public 1830 - 1870 (Edge Hill and Salford): This project developed and piloted resources for a module on Victorian popular culture across two institutions thereby helping to solve access difficulties to key texts in popular literature.; Project completed: May 2003; Tags: Victorian literature, E-learning

Key Skills with Chaucer (Hull): This project developed a web-based resource to supplement the teaching of Chaucer to those who have not encountered the author before using digital images and multimedia.; Project completed: January 2003; Tags: E-learning, Medieval literature, Chaucer

Development of 'Wessex Parallel Web Texts' (Southampton): Further development of an online resource consisting of an electronic anthology of texts and translations of Middle English works in prose and verse, together with background material for use in teaching.; Project completed: October 2002; Tags: English language, E-learning, Medieval literature

English Subject Centre - C & IT Project: A project commisioned in 2001 to survey the degree to which e-learning was being used, and to identify e-learning resources, in English departments throughout the UK.; Project completed: October 2002; Tags: E-learning

ARIES: Punctuation, Spelling and Reference for the Web (Glasgow): The project converted an existing suite of computer programs concerned with improving key English Language skills in spelling and punctuation into a web-accessible resource.; Project completed: June 2002; Tags: English language, The Subject Centre in Scotland, E-learning, Literacy & Writing Skills

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