TLTP

TLTP stands for Teaching and Learning Technology Programme, a former development programme in the UK.

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(sourced from a survey article at http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue4/tltp/)

TLTP is, to the best of our knowledge, the largest technology based initiative of its kind across the world within higher education. As a centrally funded initiative it provided an excellent example of the advantages of collaboration compared to the efforts of many individuals working in isolation.

The programme was jointly funded by the four higher education funding bodies, HEFCE, SHEFC, HEFCW and DENI, who allocated 22.5 million pounds over three years, starting in 1992-93, for the first phase of the programme and 11.25 million pounds for the second at a time when the sector was experiencing a period of rapid expansion. Added to the funding bodies' own commitment of 33 million pounds was the direct and indirect contributions made by institutions to the projects they were hosting. The overall funding for TLTP was probably somewhere in the region of 75 million pounds.

TLTP was launched with the aim of achieving productivity and efficiency gains whilst maintaining and improving quality in the provision of teaching and learning. Challenges arose in the form of increasing pressure on resource and the demand for high quality teaching and learning from what was fast becoming a large and extremely diverse student population. It seemed, therefore, inevitable that technology has an important role to play in the future delivery of teaching and learning.

TLTP funded 76 projects in a wide range of subject disciplines.

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