People Involved:

Dr Caroline Daly, Dr Norbert Pachler, Jon Pickering, Jeff Bezemer

Tags:

Jeff Bezemer   Caroline Daly   Norbert Pachler   Jon Pickering   CDE award   e-learning   evaluation   experiences   narrative   pedagogy   professional learning   2005/6   Final Report   Presentation Slides   Further Publications  

Project Outputs:

 Project Report 288.54 Kb
 Presentation: innovating evaluation 1.71 Mb
 Poster: a study of e-learners' experiences 726.43 Kb
 Poster: learning from narrative data collection 650.43 Kb
 Sample Cases 192.77 Kb

Summary

A study of e-learners' experiences in the mixed-mode professional degree programme, the Master of Teaching.

The project has won a research award from the Centre for Distance Education, University of London. The growth of e-learning programmes which offer post-graduate professional awards is a significant aspect of the distance education provision of the University of London, and this project aims to develop understanding of the e-learning experiences of professionals who are studying at a distance. The aims of the project have total coherence with those of the Centre for Distance Education. The emergent priority for e-learning development, fore-grounded by the Higher Education Academy and the DfES strategy for e-learning, is the urgent need to develop appropriate research tools for understanding and evaluating the learner experience, and thereby enhance the quality of provision for participants studying at a distance.

Caroline Daly

Caroline Daly's role is based on developing e-learning pedagogies by focusing on understanding the e-learning experience. This would build on experience in developing e-learning for teachers' professional development in the MTeach, and is relevant to the HEA focus on the student experience, and the HEFCE strategy for e-learning (2005).

A study of e-learners' experiences 2005-06

The project is a study which has two related aims:

1. to develop approaches to understanding the experiences of e-learners in professional contexts, based on qualitative and narrative techniques to establish a series of sample cases
2. to use these to help develop the design of e-pedagogies which embed a focus on the learner experience.

It takes place as part of the pilot of new approaches to evaluation in the mixed-mode Master of Teaching (MTeach) degree, and is relevant to the Higher Education Academy focus on the 'student experience', and the HEFCE strategy for e-learning (2005). Intended outcomes are to develop coherent e-learning experiences with application to a range of programmes, in terms of achieving some of the following:

• context-aware learning experiences
• flexible and adaptable pedagogical design to meet practice-based learning needs
• focusing on individual feedback
• offering support at critical points in the learning process
• co-constructing knowledge through interactive tasks
• e-portfolio building
• building a sense of community
• utilising e-resources in a range of media to meet learners' needs
• designing built-in capacity for learner evaluation