Developing study skills through technology supported learning

Abstract

The project described in this paper sought to develop generic study skills materials for a wide constituency of students. The learning materials defined in the project brief were to be technology rich and transferable to schools and departments beyond the School of Education (SEd). At the time of initial conception SEd was planning the creation of a set of 5 inter-related and self-supporting WOLF topics – WOLF is the University of Wolverhampton’s (UoW) virtual learning environment (VLE). WOLF topics (a discrete unit within the VLE framework), at that time, tended to be module specific; those planned by SEd were intended to provide an overarching resource for the variety of subject and professional routes within the school. Where micro topic describes module level and meso topic describes subject level then the intention was to create 5 macro topics one of which contained technology rich resources concerned with the development of students’ study skills.