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The TILT Project
Aims and objectives
Survey of Glasgow University Staff
Project organisation
What did TILT do for you?
The participants
Learning software packages
Issues- Fitting IT into teaching & learning,
staff & institutional needs, conflicting perceptions
Conclusions emerging from TILT
Recommendations
Publications and references
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Copyright statement
The UK-wide Teaching and Learning Technology Programme, TLTP, was jointly funded by the four UK higher education funding bodies, HEFCE, HEFCW, SHEFC and DENI. The first round of TLTP was mainly about providing and using subject-specific learning software. The University of Glasgow's TILT, Teaching with Independent Learning Technologies, project was one of a few TLTP projects that were funded to show how teaching and learning can be made more productive and efficient throughout a single Higher Education Institution.
TILT, which ran for three years from January 1993 until December 1995, aimed to demonstrate how to use Information Technology effectively in teaching methods, especially to support more independent learning.
A subgroup of the interdisciplinary and interdepartmental Working Party on Information Technology in University Teaching co-ordinated proposals and, helped by the Computers and Teaching Special Interest Group, gathered ideas, experience and expertise from across the University community to form an institutional bid to the TLTP. This bid, entitled Teaching with Independent Learning Technologies (TILT), was successful and is described in detail in the rest of these pages.
TILT had grants of 751,750 (pounds) from TLTP and 125,000 (pounds) from the University of Glasgow's New Initiatives Fund.
"to make teaching and learning more productive and efficient by harnessing modern technology".
"to show how teaching and learning can be made more productive and efficient throughout a single Higher Education Institution, by demonstrating how to use Information Technology effectively in teaching methods, especially to support more independent learning."
The project proceeded through four main phases: to create (gather, adapt or produce teaching material), evaluate (deliver learning to classes and apply suitable evaluation methods), debate (present and discuss evaluated case studies), and disseminate recommendations within the University of Glasgow and beyond on the effective use of IT for learning in Higher Education.
TILT reported through the committee structure of the University, interacted with all the service departments which influence IT and learning, and used existing channels to report activities and results.
The strategy was to embed TILT within the University, so that the results of the project could be integrated across the institution. Many of the TILT RAs were placed with members of course teams in teaching departments, so that these departments learned from their involvement in action research on the design of teaching. Teachers learned how to work more effectively in course teams and in courseware development teams.
TILT was organised by a Project Director with a Steering Group, representing important University committees and the chairs of the six groups in which TILT Project members operated.
TILT formed six working groups.
For the UK HE community, the TILT team (items in italics are extra for staff in the University of Glasgow):
TILT employed thirteen contract staff. They supported the 26 permanent staff who proposed the project, and worked with 33 other colleagues in 20 departments. More than 2000 students in six Faculties took part. TILT's activities were closely linked with many subject-specific TLTP consortia, CTI Centres and ITTI projects.
The University of Glasgow's ITTI Project Establishing Multimedia Authoring Skills in Higher Education provided experienced staff, as well as training material and software examples.
Many case studies were completed (and more may continue to be studied as learning software is still used in courses) using software that had been selected, evaluated, developed, customised or recycled. Some of these packages were made available to other institutions, as completed packages or for trial.
Details
of the software packages are given on another page.
These Issues are discussed in more detail on another page.
A wide range of Conclusions emerged from TILT, and are discussed on another page.
A set of recommendations for change in UK HE institutions were made.
TILT's Publications and references are listed on another page. Some papers are reproduced as Web pages.
There are a large number of abbreviations used in reporting the work of TILT, EMASHE and other UK higher education projects involving IT on teaching and learning. We avoided their use as much as possible, but not completely. Many are listed under Abbreviations.
Whilst every effort has been taken to ensure the accuracy of the
information in these pages, their contents are reviewed (and are
naturally subject to change) from time to time.
The University of Glasgow makes no representations or warranties,
either express or implied, as to the accuracy of the information held
on this server or its fitness for any purpose whatsoever. In no event
will the University of Glasgow be liable for any direct, indirect,
special incidental or consequential damages arising out of the use of
the information held on this server.
All Rights Reserved
These computer files and related printed documents have been produced
by the Teaching with Independent Learning Technologies project at the
University of Glasgow under the Teaching & Learning Technology
Programme. All documents - including text, graphics, sound and video
- held on this server remain the property of the University of
Glasgow. The materials in these computer files, documents and other
TILT publications may be copied by higher education institutions in
the UK for the purpose of information, training or instruction of
their staff, providing the source is acknowledged. For the
furtherance of any other purpose, for example the running of courses
for which a fee is charged, these documents may not be reproduced,
stored or retransmitted in any form or by any means (electronic,
photocopying or otherwise) without prior written permission from the
copyright holder.
Discussion on minimising copyright problems, based on experience in TILT.
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