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Environments to support e-Learning In UK Further and Higher Education
Table: Units responsible for support: information on Intranet/ Internet 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 26% 31% 16% 24% 52% 53% 63% 37% 42% 50% 51% 45%
Distributed Information Technology
support 4% 3% 3% 2% 10% 13% 0% 0% 0% 8% 5% 7%
Learning Technology Support Unit
(LTSU) 15% 10% 11% 6% 29% 26% 21% 21% 17% 0% 25% 20%
Educational Development Unit
(EDU) 5% 3% 4% 1% 13% 8% 11% 8% 0% 0% 8% 7%
Dedicated VLE support 23% 17% 25% 17% 23% 13% 16% 18% 17% 33% 19% 18%
Local 8% 6% 8% 6% 16% 11% 5% 5% 0% 8% 8% 8%
Academic staff 23% 27% 29% 30% 19% 26% 5% 13% 8% 17% 13% 19%
External (Written in, 2005 only) 0% 1% 0% 0% 0% 0%
Library/learning resources (Written
in, 2005 only) 4% 3% 6% 0% 17% 5%
E-learning coordinator (Written in,
2005 only) 4% 5% 0% 5% 8% 3%
Other - listed 0% 6% 0% 6% 0% 5% 0% 11% 0% 0% 0% 7%
Not answered 23% 29% 27% 33% 10% 18% 11% 18% 25% 17% 14% 18%
• 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.
• Central Information Technology support remains frequently cited (26%, was 31%).
(FE 16%, was 24%; HE 51%, was 45%) followed by Dedicated VLE support (23%,
was 17%). (FE 25%, was 17%; HE 19%, was 18%) and Academic staff (23%, was
27%). (FE 29%, was 30%; HE 13%, was 19%)
• Library / learning resource was written in by 4% of respondents, and E-learning
coordinator also by 4%.
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