ILT

Background

The use of technology in teaching can take many forms, such as showing a documentary or film, using a PowerPoint presentation, researching from the internet or keeping records of student progress. ILT, or Information and Learning Technologies, is particularly concerned with finding ways to use technology to support us in our classroom practice and support students’ learning in and out of the classroom.

The term Blended Learning refers to an activity that combines more than one teaching strategy and tends to be applied to the use of ILT within a classroom setting.  The most effective use of ILT comes when you incorporate it with other teaching methods rather than being an end in itself.

Reasons to use ILT in our teaching:

• Give students access to a variety of resources
• Make teaching resources of a higher quality 
• Organise your courses
• Efficient keeping of student records
• Improve differentiation and variety
• Support students’ basic skills needs
• Build on our students’ existing IT skills

This section will look at some approaches to using ILT to support learning, particularly looking at Moodle.