Highlights
* We explore factors affecting students' engagement with Moodle and Facebook.
* Students were not interested in using Moodle, yet active on Facebook.
* We use Activity Theory as a lens for data interpretation.
* Factors are categorized as technological, individual, and community levels.
Interesting! As are a number of the papers suggested afterwards which I will bookmark too!
As an aside you may be interested in the paper Cass Business School students present to the Moodle Research Conference last year: http://research.moodle.net/mod/data/view.php?d=7&rid=124
One point of interest I'm keen to follow is the possible rise in more student-led studies (at City?) - in this case, both surveying students and by students. I'm also interested in how we could look more at involving learners in the design process.
Paper presented at 2013 Moodle Research conference - part of final year undergraduate research at Cass.
I think it's important to look at data directly from students. Can we make them real partners in the design and experience of courses?
A succinct introductory video on podcasting and its use in higher education, highlighting key benefits of student engagement and emphasizing the key realities of the steep learning curve
This paper published by The Open University looks at how social presence can be used to engage students with online learning. It outlines the benefits and problems of online communication for learning and then looks at the pros and cons of different online communication tools.
LEaD this year are developing and sharing expertise around inclusive learning - I wonder if Wolverhampton would come and do a piece at our conference learning@city in June?
This project will deliver a new module around the idea of inclusive teaching that will be available for the professional development of teaching and support staff.
This project will deliver a new module around the idea of inclusive teaching that will be available for the professional development of teaching and support staff.
I found this book the best single piece of information I have read throughout the course on online learning. I really like the fact that it has practical examples and ideas for a wide range of activities and learning outcomes. In my view that's refreshing because I think that the education literature can become sometimes too theoretical and abstract, elaborating on abstract descriptions of what and why should be done, but leaves you on your own when it comes to practical implementation of all the principles. I think that this is a great source of both theoretical and practical information on online learning.
This is the second post in a three part series on group work in online learning communities. Post one, featured why we need group work in online learning, and post three will be on how to evaluate.