Beyond Distance Research Alliance
About the Alliance
* Builds capacity for research and development into information, communication and learning technologies
* Identifies excellent and appropriate ways forward to underpin e-learning strategy and policy for the 21st century; move from distance and campus based ‘e-learning’; provide a way of taking research into teaching through modes of learning
* Provides a focused way of networking and collaborating nationally and internationally in the field, a focus and an interesting place to attract external visitors and collaborators
* Deflect the ‘technology’ or ‘VLE’ driven narrative in the universities in the area of e-learning and instead addresses e-learning as a business and pedagogical development opportunity associated with positive change
* Promotes the possibilities of research into teaching across all departments and subjects
* Engages academic staff in research projects into their own teaching
* Provides a well-informed forum for discussion of e-learning strategy and choices
* Provides a forum and a focus for publications in the e-learning, distance-learning and pedagogical fields
* Provides a forum and good support for preparing income generating bids and resources
* Provides an arena for demonstration and discussion of new internal and external developments.
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