e-Learning focuses on the way in which the use of technology changes learning, teaching, assessment and the organisation of education. It is also referred to as Technology Enhanced Learning or Enhancing Learning and Teaching with Technology.

The following pages supply a more in-depth look at some current issues in e-learning:

Designing for learning

e-Portfolios

Learning Technologists

The impact of research into students' experiences of e-Learning

There is also a page on quality assurance and quality enhancement in e-learning, which is linked to the QA/QE SIG. A further set of pages presents an open peer commentary on a research article (Mayes & Morrison, 2008), which was conducted as part of a piloting exercise but is made available as a resource.

Over the last three years the Higher Education Academy has funded a number of e-Learning Research Projects. Successful applicants for the 2008/09 grants are using this wiki to communicate with each other and to publish interim findings. Find out more about these projects here.

Information about the previous funded projects is currently unavailable while the Academy's site is re-structured. However, one of these projects, "Making Connections: using e-learning data to improve retention rates in higher education", has made its own Wiki available. It has also hosted a conference on November 6th, 2008; information from this is also available. The project will launch a resource to inform practice in the area of retention and engagement shortly.

In 2009, the Academy funded a series of synthesis projects, and supported the creation of Special Interest Groups around Engaging Students through In-Class Technologies (ESTICT) and E-Learning and the First Year Student Experience. It also funded one project to explore the potential of functionality like that provided by Cloudworks for EvidenceNet.