Types of academic materials
Section 1
What are "academic materials"? This phrase or "teaching and learning
materials" is commonly used across universities and other research-based
institutions to describe materials that you might create within or on behalf
of your institution, generally for use by students. In the US, such materials
are often referred to as "courseware".
The materials do not have to be in written form. Nowadays, institutions
use e-learning tools including DVDs, computer programs, virtual learning
environments (VLEs) and podcasts to teach students. Table 1 gives you a
few examples of academic materials.
Table 1
Any course handouts (e.g. slides, manuscript notes
or any audio-visual materials) that you have prepared
for modules you are teaching to students at your
institution.
Any exam questions that you set for students at
your institution.
Any apparatus for a practical demonstration of an
experiment that you have devised.
Any videos filmed for a module of a course that you
are teaching to students. If you converted that video
into a DVD, the DVD would be a separate teaching
and learning tool.
Any computer program which allows students to
access learning materials relating to their course of
study (a VLE).
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