Exploring whether eLearning has lived up to the early promise elearning: A Reality Check Durham Univ

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Exploring whether e-Learning has lived up to the
early promisee-learning A Reality CheckDurham
University, January 2009

• Andy Ramsden
• Head of e-Learning
• University of Bath
• http//go.bath.ac.uk/andyramsden

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expectations
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my aims your role
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How long have you been involved in some capacity
within e-learning?

• less than a year
• one to three years
• four to five years
• six to eight years
• nine years and above
• Im not

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What would you like me to talk about next?

• Departmental use of the VLE
• Uses of technology in face to face teaching

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The reality vle use
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A framework for analysing VLE use
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VLE use at University of Bath
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So across to you
To what extent do you agree with the following
statement. Id confidently predict a similar
pattern of VLE use at my institution

• Strongly Agree
• Agree
• Neutral
• Disagree
• Strongly Disagree

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The reality face to face teaching
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The respondents
Number of respondents 69
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What do they do with lecture notes?

• Do you consistently make your material (slides,
  links, multimedia) available on Moodle (or
  online) before the lecture?
• Yes 48.3
• No 51.7
• If no to above, do you consistently make your
  material (slides, links, multimedia) available on
  Moodle (or online) after the lecture?
• Yes 78.1
• No 21.9

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What technologies do they use?

• Which of the following electronic resources have
  you used in your lecture this term (you can
  select more than one)

• OHPs
• Web surveys
• Twitter
• Video conferencing
• Simulations
• Spreadsheets

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What is their lecture style?
Could you summarise how you lecture, in
particular, the style you adopt and the
technologies that you use.
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The reality sharing stuff
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Within your team (s) do you regularly share web
resources?

• Yes
• No

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How do you share these resources?
how do you share these resources? For instance,
email, shared word document, wiki, blog, social
bookmark software (diigo, delicious) or other
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In your view, has e-learning lived up to its
early promise?
1 2 3
4 5

• 1 oh, yes
• 2
• 3 no view
• 4
• 5 oh, no

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What might explain this reality?
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Collis Moonen 4 Es Model

• I am very familiar with it
• Im familiar with it
• Ive heard of it
• Ive no idea
• I dont care

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Collis and Moonen 4 Es Model
Organisational influences
Social-cultural influences
environmental (institutional) factors
Technological influences
threshold
an individuals likelihood of making use of a
technological innovation for a learning related
purpose is a function of for groups of factors
Educational effectiveness (perceived or actual)
ease of use
(personal) engagement
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Back to Bath use of VLE for specific tasks
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Pattern makes sense if you put yourself in the
academics shoes
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The outcome (black notes)
environmental factors
Educ effectiveness
ease of use
Personal engagement
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How might we change the situation?
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Implementing a new technology
A QR Code is a matrix code (or two-dimensional
bar code) created by Japanese corporation
Denso-Wave in 1994. The "QR" is derived from
"Quick Response", as the creator intended the
code to allow its contents to be decoded at high
speed. QR Codes are common in Japan where they
are currently the most popular type of two
dimensional codes.

• Common tasks that can be achieved using a qr
  code, include,
• Link to web site
• Send an sms to a phone
• Transfer a phone number
• Provide more text

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Generating lots of different uses
QR Codes only
QR Codes with other tools
e-Admin
Sign up for news alerts using QR codes
Student (campus) induction
Library catalogue
Classroom evaluation
Append to Moodle printouts
e-Learning
Access to further guidance
Augmented Reality Gaming
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Students know about them

• Do you know what a QR Code is?
• Yes 13.8
• with 95 confidence interval, then 12.34 -
  15.26 of total student population are aware of
  QR codes.

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Some students have accessed a QR Code

• Have you accessed a QR Code?
• Yes 2.2
• with 95 confidence interval, then 1.58 - 2.82
  of total student population have accessed a QR
  code.
• The most common action was
• Web site 33 responses
• Read more text 28 responses
• Phone a number 19 responses
• Send a pre-written SMS 12 responses

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They have the technology in their pockets
QR Code Readers Kaywa, Quickmark, i-Nigma
SnapMaze
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Back to Collis and Moonen 4 Es Model
environmental (institution) factors
threshold
Down with . Central workshops, a large case
study which takes a year to publish, one single
specialist within the team
Educ effectiveness
ease of use
Personal engagement
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Back to Collis and Moonen 4 Es Model
environmental (institution) factors
threshold
Up with . Dedicated project blog, attending
uses and co-writing session reports, a project
lead but all the team deliver, prioritise
profiling at meetings (DoS, LTC, Innovations
Week, eLPF), implement with other teams, focus
regular deliverables on lit reviews, encourage
academics to submit journal and conference
papers, assist with evaluation and resource, ring
fence LT development time, organise publicity
events with external speakers, commit to the long
term (3 year plan).
Educ effectiveness
ease of use
Personal engagement
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Back to Collis and Moonen 4 Es Model
environmental (institution) factors
threshold
Educ effectiveness
ease of use
Personal engagement
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Why do you think e-learning has not lived up to
its early promise?
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What would others say?

• Much of the potential is only now becoming
  apparent as technological and pedagogical
  expertise builds up
• Kukulska-Hulme and Traxler (2007) in
  Rethinking Pedagogy for a Digital Age

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In response

• The pedagogical expertise is taking a very long
  time to develop, and it is still a very narrow
  base
• back to themes of the conference - why it matters
  that
• we practice what we preach,
• why we need to disseminate this effectively and
  efficiently
• roll these findings into our staff development
  programmes

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thank you questions
Andy Ramsden a.ramsden_at_bath.ac.uk
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