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LTSN-ITC 2003

LTSN-ITC 2003. Does e-learning work? Rosa Michaelson Fellow in Business Computing Accountancy and Business Finance University of Dundee. Overview. Definitions Technologies UK Initiatives CS Examples Issues Conclusion. Definitions. e-learning networked learning open learning

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LTSN-ITC 2003

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  1. LTSN-ITC 2003 Does e-learning work? Rosa Michaelson Fellow in Business Computing Accountancy and Business Finance University of Dundee

  2. Overview • Definitions • Technologies • UK Initiatives • CS Examples • Issues • Conclusion

  3. Definitions • e-learning • networked learning • open learning • Internet • WWW • e-universities • institution-wide

  4. Technologies • Internet + applications • Web Browsers • Learning Environments • Portals • user-centric • GRID • large-scale distributed computing

  5. UK e-learning Initiatives • TLTP • Teaching & Learning Technologies Project • CTI • Computers in teaching Initiative • JISC • VLE, MLE, Portals, GRID

  6. TLTP • 1991-2001 • Multimedia-focus • 72 subject specific projects • £90M from Government • take-up low (3 products still available)

  7. Computer Science Examples • Ceilidh/Coursemarker • St Andrews: TAGS + VIT • Warwick: TELRI + peer assessment • Durham: BSCW + shared file space • OU/QMS: distance learning

  8. Issues • Evaluation • Costs • Sustainability • Focus • Acceptance and take-up • Standards • Social Learning

  9. Evaluation 1 • usability/HCI issues • choice of application • Durham report • software functionality • Britain/Liber • 'soft' studies of student attitudes

  10. Evaluation II • Cost/Benefit analysis ignored • Bacsish - JISC Report • Pedagogy? • Scope? • e-university failures • Ryan Report • Low take-up of products

  11. Sustainability Previous initiatives found to be • Unsustainable • infrastructure not in place • a service NOT a computer-book • Technology change versus embedding • Timeliness • Portals v LE

  12. Focus Is e-Learning about: • Widening Access • Lecturer Replacement • Cost Benefits • Technology • Education? • Is it designed for the users?

  13. Explaining Low Take-up • Staff ignorance • staff development • Techno-fear • ?IT service expansion in HE not because • Inappropriate • Extra workload for teaching staff

  14. Standards • Many standards? • Training or University-level? • Metadata classifications? • Assumptions about learning and teaching • Modelling users NOT data

  15. Distance Learning • High start up costs • Long life for product • Division of labour • High drop-out rates • Short courses most successful • Need to put the social back • support staff

  16. Social Learning • Material owned by individual lecturer/teacher • Dynamic response to students • Embedded in subject discipline • About whole campus experience • Cost-effective

  17. Conclusion • e-learning works if • education is right & • IT project management is right • subject-specific • small scale • designed for educators • properly costed

  18. Also… Computer Science Educators have the right mix of disciplines • to influence and design good e-learning • to evaluate the success or failure of e-learning

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