Projects
Major SCROLLA projects, alone or in collaboration with others, included:
- The JISC X4L Maps and Learner Guides project, a 2-year collaboration between SCROLLA and the Scottish Further Education Unit to develop a tool that maps online learning resources already available freely on the Internet to the Scottish Qualifications framework;
- The PASS-IT project bringing together key players in Scottish education to research and develop ICT-based assessments which teaching professionals can access for both formative and summative purposes;
- ERADC, an ePortfolio research and development community devoted to learning about and contributing to ePortfolios and their development;
- The SEUSISS survey of staff and student ICT skills, a multinational project funded by the European Commission under the Socrates Programme collecting information about the ICT experience, skills, confidence and attitudes of students and academic staff at seven partner universities across Europe;
- The SPOT+ project on students' perspective on technology in teaching and learning in European universities;
- EUCEBS (European Certificate in Basic Skills), a pilot project covering communication, ICT, numeracy, learning to learn, interpersonal skills and citizenship;
- The UniGame project examining the concept of game-based learning with a focus on higher education sector and lifelong learning, funded under the Socrates Programme;
- The EC-funded EQUEL project (E-Quality in E-Learning), a collaboration of researchers and practitioners from 14 European higher education institutions to develop a European virtual centre of excellence for innovation and research in networked learning. SCROLLA GU is involved in a number of EQUEL research themes, particularly on communication and control in e-learning environments;
- A one-year collaborative project funded by the European Social Fund to further develop the Virtual Learning Space as a Scottish cross-sectoral research forum.
