Toolkit licensing information

Licences are available for the English for Academic Purposes (EAP) Toolkit and the Study Skills Toolkit. The pricing strands for each toolkit are given below as guidance:

EAP Toolkit: £1500, £3000 or £6000 for 1 year, depending on size of student cohort
Study Skills Toolkit: £3000 or £6000 for 1 year, depending on size of student cohort
Both toolkits: £4300 or £8000 for 1 year, depending on size of student cohort

• Toolkit licences for two year or three year periods are available at discounted rates.
• All toolkit content can be branded with the licensing institution's logo at a small cost if required.
• Toolkits are available for access through a web-hosted version or may be licensed for use in a UK institution's virtual learning environment (e.g. Blackboard or Moodle).
• The toolkits can alternatively be licensed for access from a computer workstation room. Details are available on request.

Design and pedagogy

Our toolkits contain 80-120 individual learning resources designed in the form of 'learning objects'. Our interactive learning objects are created using our own in-house authoring tool. They are designed in a particular style and based in an explicit pedagogy which involves an activity-led approach ('learning by doing'). They are designed to promote student reflection and are enhanced with feedback and other support mechanisms to aid student learning. They have been tried and tested with international students over a number of years. If you would like detailed information about their design, pedagogic approach and research conducted with student and teacher users, please see:

Watson, J (2010). "A Case Study: Developing Learning Objects with an Explicit Learning Design" Electronic Journal of e-Learning Volume 8 Issue 1 2010, (pp41-50), available online at http://www.ejel.org/volume8/issue1

Coming soon!

Currently, we regret that we are only able to licence to institutions or departments within institutions. However, we will shortly be launching refreshed versions of both toolkits through our Pay, Access and Learn site. This will allow individual students, small institutions, or tutor-led groups access to the toolkits for a given period, particularly to selected small packages from them (e.g. academic writing skills or grammar for academic purposes). Licence fees for 'pay and access' packages will be on a sliding scale according to number of students and length of access period. If you would like to be informed when our 'pay and access' system goes live, please email us at: elang1@soton.ac.uk.