- 1. Learning virtually Rhona SharpeOxford Centre for Staff and
Learning Development Associate College Partnership 14 January 2011
Directorate ofHuman Resources
2. Learner Experiences of ICT
- JISC Learner Experiences of E-learning programme (Guide for
Practitioners in your packs)
- JISC Supporting Learners in a Digital Age project (SLiDA)
- NUS/HEFCE Student Expectations of ICT report, October 2010
3. Digital and information literacyin Oxford Brookes Enhancing
the Student Experience Strategy
- The functional access, skills and practices necessary to become
a confident, agile adopter of a range of technologies for personal,
academic and professional use.
- To be able to use appropriate technology to search for
high-quality information; critically to evaluate and engage with
the information obtained; reflect on and record learning, and
professional and personal development; and engage productively in
relevant online communities.
4.
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- What do you, as learner,needto be able to do these online
learning activities? (10 mins)
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- To what extent do your learnershavethe access, skills,
strategies and support necessary? (20 mins)
Workshop plan 5. What is it like to learn virtually?
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- Pick one of the tasks, image that you are working on it. Where
are you? How does it feel? What do you need?
6. About your learners: a checklist
- Which questions do you find difficult to answer? Which will be
important for your teaching?
- On your tables, how are your studentssimilaranddifferent ?
Where are thegapsin what you know about your students?
- Choose one section of the checklist to discuss in more detail.
Come and collect the student experience cards for this
section.
- To what extent do your learnershavethe access, skills,
strategies or support necessary?
7. Access and ownership
- T here is high ownership and access to personal technology, but
note institutional differences
- Where access or ownership is lacking, students feel
disadvantaged
- Most students are not sure how to use personal technology to
aid study,
14/01/11 |slide If we are required to be networked for a
computer workshop, for example, there generally arent places you
can plug in a laptop with assistive technology in. So, then you are
reliant on whatever assistive technologies are available on the
network. ( LexDis) 8. Study habits and strategies
- New learners are c onservative in their study habits and
approaches
- I nfluenced initially by prior educational experience, and
laterby their tutors
- Disabled learners are agile technology users who understand the
affordances of technology
- Learn skills from each other
Well firstly if I want to look anything up I will usually Google
it... Then I would fire up MSN Finally [the VLE] and all the
resources the University makes available online. (STROLL) 9.
Communication strategies
- Extensive use of social networking sites for recreational
use
- Extensive use of peers for support, especially technical
support
- Technologies used to support theprocessof groupwork
- Social networking used where they have a cohort identity
14/01/11 |slide University e-mail I dont really use for people
at University, I usually use texting, Facebook or MSN. If theyre
on-line, on MSN, I know hopefully theyll respond straightaway. You
can get an immediate response with phones and Messenger.(E4L) 10.
Support
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