A UK Perspective on E-Learning: An Overview of the "Workflow" and "Reusable Learning Object" Approach in the UK eUniversities Project

• Authors: Mohammad Dastbaz;Ray Stoneham
• Venue: IV '03 Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Information Visualization
• Year: 2003

The UK government started the UK eUniversitiesproject in order to create a virtual campus for onlineeducation provisions, competing in a global market.The UKeU (www.ukeu.com) claims to "have createda new approach to eLearning" which "opens up arange of exciting opportunities for students, businessand industry worldwide" to obtain both postgraduateand undergraduate qualifications.Although there has been many promises about thee-learning revolution using state-of-the-artmultimedia technology, closer scrutiny of what isbeing delivered reveals that many of the eLearningmodels currently being used are little more than theold text based computer aided learning running on aglobal network. As part of the UKeU project aconsortium of universities have been involved indeveloping a two year foundation degree from 2004.This paper looks at the approach taken by theconsortium in developing global e-learningprovisions and the problems and the pitfalls that layahead.