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Ming Nie, Research Associate, Gabi Witthaus, Research Fellow
Beyond Distance Research Alliance, University of Leicester
For Unisa (Pretoria), 11 June 2012
Part 1: Showcase of e-learning research at Leicester
Part 2: Examples of using new technologies for research
What research are you doing into online teaching and learning?
• Data– Online survey (260 returns)– Departmental visits
• Key findings– Used for content & administration– Pockets of innovation– More support needed on effective design
strategies– Tension between teaching and research– Usability issue
•VLE as a safe nursery slope
• Shift from content to activities
• Promote reflection and collaboration
•Mobile VLE
Great to have very personal feedback!
I felt that a lot of attention was paid to my dissertation
It also helps to provide a more personal touch and to feel better connected to my supervisor
It was more detailed and allowed a greater explanation of the comments made
Now I understand more about what you were trying to say than I did with the last set of feedback we got
The Audio feedback gave a good general overview and helped me to understand where I needed to make changes. The written comments showed me exactly where the changes needed to be made
Voice boards and distance learnersVoice boards and distance learners
How I kill time has been transformed by this device, as previously I would have just spent the 20 minutes playing games on my iPhone!
I commute to (work)... It's so much easier to take the e-reader rather than taking around a lot of papers.
I've been taking it to work and after lunch reading a few pages... Before with the paper version, I’d allocate my weekends for study.'
• Individual research• Contact session notes:
– Workshops, Lectures • Assessment:
– Core module question sets
– Reports, presentations, multimedia
– Lab: Proformas & Reports
– Electronic MCQs
– Exams (Special Ed Needs)
School of Museum Studies M.A. students at the British Museum using tablet computers to explore museum ethics
Creation Cascading OERs in Health Sciences iTunes U
OER university EVOL-OER: Reuse POERUP:OER policy
ConceptualiseWhat do we want to design, who for and why?
ConsolidateEvaluate and embed your design
The 7Cs of design The 7Cs of design and deliveryand delivery
Books, increasingly as e-books and audiobooks
E-journals, Google Scholar and Mendeley.
Delicious
Blogs: I subscribe to more than 100 blogs in Google Reader
My own blog: I have kept a blog for around five years now, and it provided a useful resource for items I have commented on and drafts of sections of this book. The blog was also a means of posting draft content to gain comments and feedback, which could then be incorporated into further iterations of writing.
YouTube, Wikipedia, Slideshare, Scribd, Cloudworks: Sharing resources, and getting insightful comment.
Social network: my Twitter network is especially useful for gaining feedback, asking for suggestions and, on a daily basis, as a filter and collection mechanism for sharing resources.
Google alerts: Providing daily email updates on new content containing the keywords. This allowed me to find new resources, track conversations and stay abreast of a field which was changing as I wrote the book.
Seminars and conferences: my attendance at face-to-face conferences has declined, but I regularly attend or dip into conferences remotely.
Ale: Online tutorials Ale: Online tutorials with PhD studentswith PhD students
Gabi: researching Gabi: researching in the openin the open
Terese: Terese: social mediasocial media
Natalia: DeliciousNatalia: Delicious
There is still some reluctance to embrace twitter in healthcare practice. I think there is concern about confidentiality and inadvertently giving away information...
AlisonAlisonTony: TwitterTony: Twitter
Thanks to rapidtravelchai for the image of the Union Buildings, Pretoria on cover slide
