What is Queens Online for Learning and Teaching?
Queen’s Online is a virtual learning environment which provides tools to make learning resources available online for students, to enable communication online between students and staff, to track students’ use of resources and offers computer assisted assessment options. For more information on online learning (or e-learning as it is often referred to), virtual and managed learning environments, take a look at • Briefing paper 1: MLEs and VLEs explained from the JISC is a good overview of online learning environments exploring aspects of development and use of these environments. The link goes to a webpage that provides an introduction with a link to a PDF document at the end. • The elearning section of the Higher Education Academy website contains resources, links, strategies, project information etc.
