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Environments to support e-Learning In UK Further and Higher Education
4.13 And, what units provide VLE system administration support in your institution?
Please tick all that apply in the second column below or write in the name of the unit
responsible
In 2003 question 4.10 was identical.
Table: Units providing system administration support
Total FE HE - Pre ‘92
HE - Post
‘92 HE college HE all
2005 2003 2005 2003 2005 2003 2005 2003 2005 2003 2005 2003
N = 209 297 146 209 31 38 19 38 12 12 63 88
Central Information Technology
support 54% 59% 48% 54% 74% 74% 63% 63% 50% 75% 67% 69%
Distributed Information Technology
support 6% 8% 3% 3% 13% 24% 16% 13% 17% 25% 14% 19%
Learning Technology Support Unit
(LTSU) 15% 16% 10% 11% 29% 34% 26% 32% 42% 17% 30% 31%
Educational Development Unit
(EDU) 10% 5% 7% 2% 16% 11% 21% 13% 8% 0% 16% 10%
Dedicated VLE support 30% 23% 34% 22% 19% 11% 21% 34% 17% 25% 19% 23%
Local 8% 9% 7% 8% 13% 18% 11% 5% 0% 17% 10% 13%
Outsourced supplier or specialist 10% 4% 12% 5% 6% 5% 5% 3% 0% 0% 3% 3%
Library/learning resources (Written
in, 2005 only) 6% 5% 0% 11% 17% 6%
ILT Champions (Written in, 2005
only) 1% 1% 0% 0% 0% 0%
E-learning coordinator (Written in,
2005 only) 5% 5% 3% 5% 8% 3%
Other - listed 2% 19% 3% 23% 3% 8% 0% 11% 0% 0% 2% 8%
Not answered (= none) 4% 6% 3% 8% 6% 3% 0% 3% 8% 8% 5% 3%
• The three most frequently written in answer options for 2005 have been coded and
added to the table.
• The highlighted differences for HE sub groups are all based on low numbers of
cases.
• Central Information Technology support is cited by 54 % of respondents (48% FE,
67% HE), followed by dedicated VLE support with 30% (34% FE, 19% HE).
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