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Environments to support e-Learning In UK Further and Higher Education
Table: Units responsible for support: face-to-face training on use of VLE as part of an IT skills induction
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 19% 17% 12% 10% 39% 32% 32% 37% 42% 42% 37% 35%
Distributed Information Technology
support 3% 3% 3% 1% 6% 8% 0% 8% 0% 0% 3% 7%
Learning Technology Support Unit
(LTSU) 8% 6% 5% 4% 16% 8% 11% 11% 8% 8% 13% 9%
Educational Development Unit
(EDU) 5% 1% 2% 1% 10% 3% 11% 3% 8% 0% 10% 2%
Dedicated VLE support 11% 7% 14% 7% 3% 8% 11% 5% 17% 8% 6% 7%
Local 11% 9% 10% 7% 13% 11% 16% 16% 17% 17% 14% 14%
Academic staff 38% 41% 43% 45% 23% 16% 42% 37% 17% 50% 27% 30%
External (Written in, 2005 only) 0% 1% 0% 0% 0% 0%
Library/learning resources (Written
in, 2005 only) 8% 7% 3% 11% 17% 8%
ILT Champions (Written in, 2005
only) 1% 1% 0% 0% 0% 0%
E-learning coordinator (Written in,
2005 only) 2% 1% 0% 5% 8% 3%
Other - listed 0% 6% 0% 7% 0% 5% 5% 3% 0% 0% 2% 3%
Not answered 26% 34% 28% 36% 32% 39% 11% 24% 17% 8% 21% 28%
• The four most frequently written in answer options for 2005 have been coded and
added to the table.
• The highlighted differences for HE sub groups are based on low numbers of cases.
• Academic staff remains frequently cited (38%, was 41%). (FE 43%, was 45%; HE
27%, was 30%) followed by Central Information Technology support (19%, was 17%).
(FE 12%, was 10%; HE 37%, was 35%).
• Library / learning resources was written in by 8% of respondents.
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