Two Years Down The Road – Student Ownership

Two years down the road – student ownership of

GLOW…giving it back to the learners

Teachers have to let go – we don’t have to be in control !

Why do we always try to overcomplicate things ?

Let the students change it around and take ownership. “Stop talking miss – you’re stopping us from learning”

(adapted from Prof. Stephen Heppell 2006 conference presentation http://rubble.heppell.net/creativeJISC/default.html)

GLOW Learn has been ill thought out and is too impersonal. “Teaching by machines” went out with behaviourism

• Students worked in small groups

• Set up GLOW groups

• Planned and taught four ‘lessons’

• Mix of tasks/formats

• Peer assessed/ evaluated

At times, organised chaos but very soon, method from the madness

Did the lights stay on ?

• 14 % attainment gain• 32% module on module• Time on task ratio 10:1 ( 5:3 w/o)• Out of hours learning enhanced• Very labour intensive – is this investment

in attainment cost-effective when set against AiFL ?

• Funding and hardware are increasingly becoming issues

The future…

• GLOW unsustainable in it’s present format

• Huge issues with QA preventing sharing of resources

• GLOW Learn and the time factor

• Out of date and unintuitive – “The VLE is dead – Long live the Wiki”

• Project management and classroom credibility of national team approach