Creating web-based exercises for TRS students

Dr Robert Gleave

Department of Theology & Religious Studies, University of Bristol

Start date: July 2004

This project will devise web-based learning exercises and report on their success in developing key skills. During the completion of these exercises, students will hopefully develop some of the skills outlined in the QAA TRS Benchmark Statement. The aim of the project is not simply to enable conformity with the Benchmark Statement. It would, of course, be useful for a department under review to point to exercises like these when asked by a review team, ‘How and where do you teach the skills laid out in the Benchmark Statement?’. This is, if you like, one advantage of formalising skill attainment through setting specific exercises (whether web-based or not). The broader aim is, however, to find ways in which the skills outlined in the Statement can be integrated more explicitly into the curriculum.

One of the results of this project was a paper written for Discourse, volume 5, number 1 (Autumn 2005),'Web-based exercises and benchmarked skills'.