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Environments to support e-Learning In UK Further and Higher Education
Table: Units responsible for support: printed guides on use of VLE
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 22% 23% 14% 17% 42% 37% 37% 32% 42% 58% 41% 38%
Distributed Information Technology
support 3% 3% 3% 2% 6% 3% 0% 3% 0% 17% 3% 5%
Learning Technology Support Unit
(LTSU) 14% 11% 10% 7% 29% 21% 21% 24% 17% 8% 25% 20%
Educational Development Unit
(EDU) 6% 2% 4% 1% 13% 5% 16% 5% 0% 0% 11% 5%
Dedicated VLE support 20% 15% 23% 16% 13% 11% 16% 16% 17% 17% 14% 14%
Local 10% 6% 10% 7% 13% 5% 11% 5% 8% 0% 10% 5%
Academic staff 26% 22% 30% 25% 23% 18% 11% 16% 17% 8% 17% 16%
External (Written in, 2005 only) 0% 1% 0% 0% 0% 0%
Library/learning resources (Written
in, 2005 only) 5% 5% 6% 11% 17% 8%
ILT Champions (Written in, 2005
only) 0% 1% 0% 0% 0% 0%
E-learning coordinator (Written in,
2005 only) 4% 4% 0% 11% 17% 5%
Other - listed 0% 8% 0% 7% 0% 8% 5% 13% 0% 8% 2% 10%
Not answered 23% 32% 28% 37% 16% 24% 5% 24% 17% 8% 13% 22%
• The four most frequently written in answer options for 2005 have been coded and
added to the table.
• The highlighted differences for HE colleges are based on low numbers of cases.
• Academic staff remains frequently cited (26%, was 22%). (FE 30%, was 25%; HE
17%, was 16%) followed by Central Information Technology support (22%, was 23%).
(FE 14%, was 17%; HE 41%, was 38%).
• Library / learning resources was written in by 5% of respondents, and E-learning
coordinator by 4%.
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