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Orla Murphy and Carrie Griffin University College Cork, Ireland

Heroes - Text and Hypertext: Transatlantic video-conferencing with VLE support: Innovative e-learning technologies enhancing undergraduate skill acquisition. Orla Murphy and Carrie Griffin University College Cork, Ireland. Context: Why redesign an existing course?.

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Orla Murphy and Carrie Griffin University College Cork, Ireland

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  1. Heroes - Text and Hypertext:Transatlantic video-conferencing with VLE support: Innovative e-learning technologies enhancing undergraduate skill acquisition Orla Murphy and Carrie Griffin University College Cork, Ireland

  2. Context: Why redesign an existing course? • Humanities undergraduate course • Focus on textual transmission through the ages • Collaborative • Issues raised at an international conference MBSR • Parallel issues between medieval textual scholarship and modern digital scholarship identified

  3. Participation • English literature course theorising textual transmission from oral to print cultures • International collaboration with Prof. Martha Driver at Pace U, NY and “Beowulf to Lear: Text, Image and Hypertext” • Participation achieved via the Blackboard VLE and videoconferencing

  4. Course Delivery • Common texts read • Groups met separately • Discussion document issued on Blackboard • Video conference held • Web page

  5. Assessment • VLE discussion threads • Essay and presentation • Course website designed by students incorporating student content

  6. Conclusions • An e-learning environment was created that was supportive, innovative and encouraging for the School of English • Students enhanced their digital skills within a content driven humanities environment • Creating a web page was a practical contemporary example of textual transmission, and an enhanced learning experience for students

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