Week 13 14 – A3a: Reading Vignettes

Six key themes could be identified from the data available from several courses: Utility and ease of use are key factors in the appreciation of ICT tools provided by the course The relevance of ICT tools to the work context can fuel study commitment ICT elements in courses introduce a practical element into study, which […]

Week 13 14 A2c: LEX project videos

Laura Hotchkiss, a student at GlasgowCaledonianUniversity discusses how she makes use of technology for both educational and recreational purposes, at home and at the university. Video clips as used in this activity can be identified as a qualitative real-life case study, where the client’s are responding to open questions relevant to the LEX study. It […]

Week 13 14: A2b: LXP project audio logs

First of all I think that it somewhat difficult outlining any differences between the findings of different methodologies we are reviewing this week. It is difficult to compare and locate differences. This is due to the fact that if present differences are minimal and hard to outline due to the similarity of the research questions. […]

Week 13 14:1b – Readings

reading: Salaway et al (2008) ‘The ECAR study of undergraduate students and information technology’. “EDUCAUSE mission…intelligent use of information technology” In this document’s Forward section, it highlightes the finding that 85% of respondents use Social Networking Sites (SNSs) like facebook. These students tend to prefer commincating with peers rather than with tutors. Also studentsreport a […]

Weeks 13 & 14 – A1a: The learner experience

LEX project This project focuses on both formal and informal learning. The study focused on three main issues: characteristics of effective elearners beliefs and intentions strategies for effective elearning. “The findings demonstrate that technologies are now core to students’ learning.” “Students made extensive use of personally owned technologies including mobile phones, laptop computers, personal digital […]

Week12: A4: Reading Richardson (2009)

Reading: Richardson (2009), ‘Face-to-face (F2F) versus online tutoring support in humanities courses in distance education’ Points from paper Alexander (2001) identified 3 factors determining the quality of the student’s experience: Communication & support Time ICT literacy pg 70 – the importance of appropriate learning design rather then the use of ICT. pg 74 – Student […]

Week 12 – my thoughts …

After being absent this week, I now can see an interesting shift in our collaboration in this course. The posts in the forum have significantly diminished, were the quality comments/ note-keeping have shifted on our blogs (Due to my absence, mine will be somewhat sketchy. I hope this week will not reflect badly on my […]

Week 11 – A3: Quality and elearning

A3a: ICT and test performance “Effectiveness of Reading and Mathematics Software Products: Findings from the First Student Cohort” In the US, The No Child Left Behind Act called for a study on the impact of technology on student academic achievement. Findings; 1. Test Scores Were Not Significantly Higher in Classrooms Using Selected Reading and Mathematics […]

Week 10 – A7: Exploring OERs

3 OER initiatives were explored in this activity; MIT Open Courseware (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) Open Learning Initiative (OLI, Carnegie Mellon University, USA) OpenLearn (The Open University, UK) 1. MIT Open Courseware – A large number of courses are available here with each course a Syllabus, Calendar, Lecture Notes, Assignments, Exams, Study Materials. * […]

Week 8 9 – A10 – Exploring learning design tools

The emphasis here is to give you some exposure to using these tools. We want you to concentrate not on the user interface or structure of the tools per se but to think about how they are guiding the design process and to what extent they are useful. Phoebe – pedagogy planner http://phoebe-app.conted.ox.ac.uk/ London Pedagogic […]