Learning
We all learn new things each day. We have grown up learning and the time we spent at school or college was intended to help us in that process by giving access to teachers and learning resources. The Internet now provides us with similar help but outside these formal systems. You can choose your area of interest, decide the level of skills and understanding you need to meet your goals, and then use the Internet to find and use the learning resources you need.

Discovery Learning
Discovery learning means that you have control and make all the decisions about your learning. You decide what you want to know about or want to be able to do and then go looking for the help you need to achieve it. The Internet allows you to do this very efficiently and the process of discovering the resources you need helps in the learning.

How this Website can help
The e-College Website has been designed by experienced teachers who know how learning works and how the Internet can be used by individual learners to achieve their goals. Often those goals will be specific and achievable in a very short space of time: how do I set up my new mobile phone to play my favoutire ring tone? Some times they will be much more extensive: I want to gain an MBA qualification but I have to fit it around my work and family commitments. Discovery learning and the Internet provides a route to achieving both and this site is designed to show you how.

How You can help
What we're doing here is experimenting with new ways of facilitating learning. We need the help of people who are active learners and want to find better and more effective support for their learning. If you believe, as we do, that the Internet is a fantastic new gateway to learning opportunities, then we'd like to invite you to join us in demonstrating its potential. Email me at tony.toole@e-college.ac and we'll take it from there.

How to Use this Site
On the left of the screen is a list of pages on the site that you can navigate to by clicking on them. The Learning Modules page takes you to the modules that have been set up for everyone to use. Choose the module you want to follow and this will take you to the module guidance page(s) and the discovery learning gateway for that module.
As a registered learner you will have your own personal page and discussion forum to be found in Learner Pages. Use the forum to maintain a reflective log of your learning experience and communicate with your module tutor. Use the page itself to link to your working documents and any other resources or websites you find useful.

Supports Technology Enhanced Learning development and delivery in the UK. See: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo.aspx	Is the Lead Institution for this project. Partners include the Open University and Coleg Sir Gâr