2. National Learning Network
Aims to exploit learning technologies to:
- enrich students’ learning experience
- improve teaching methods & standards
- contribute to wider participation
- promote partnership & collaboration
Learning objects
- small, self-contained ‘episodes’
- re-usable in different learning contexts

3. LBCNC: Guiding principles
Keep benefits to the learner at the forefront of plans
Focus on integration with other teaching/learning methods
Dissemination and staff development

4. Involving teaching staff
Benefits:
Expertise and experience
Understand learners
Accuracy
Relevance to the curriculum
Consensus and collaboration
Leading to:
Credibility, ownership and usability

5. Involving teaching staff
Constraints:
- narrowing the focus
- knowing what suits the medium
- separating content from activity
Involvement is a learning experience
- needs careful facilitation
- an iterative process

6. Trialling • Balanced sample Content must be new to the learner
Learners’ knowledge of the curriculum
Increased internet experience
- more challenging/demanding
- greater depth & complex tasks
- more information

7. Emerging issues Assessment Learning objects
- take account of current strategies
- over-collection of data
Learning objects
- atomisation
- repetition
Integration with other teaching/learning