Encouraging lifelong learning habits in a web 2'0 enabled PLE

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Encouraging lifelong learning habits in a web 2.0
enabled PLE

• Alan Cann, Jo Badge, Jon Scott
• School of Biological Sciences
• Stuart Johnson
• Student Learning Centre
• University of Leicester

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Do we control students ?
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VLE

• A software system designed to help teachers by
  facilitating the management of educational
  courses for their students, especially by helping
  teachers and learners with course administration.
• ref

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PLE

• Systems that help learners take control of and
  manage their own learning. This includes
  providing support for learners to set their own
  learning goals, manage their learning, manage
  both content and process, and communicate with
  others in the process of learning.
• (ref)

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Key Skills Module
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Context and weaving

• BS1010 semester 1

• BS1011 semester 2

• Email
• Scientific Literature
• RSS
• Manipulating Numbers
• Social Bookmarking
• Office Suites
• Units Conversions
• Presentations Posters
• Molarities Dilutions
• Images
• Areas Volumes
• Your PLE
• Exponents Logs
• ePortfolios

• Spreadsheets
• Descriptive Statistics
• Normal Frequency Distribution
• Student's t-Test
• X2Test
• Correlation
• Regression

ePortfolio
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Personal Learning Environments
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ePortfolios
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ePortfolios
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Can you assess reflection?

• 50 of ePortfolios public.
• 1 updated gt1 month after end of module (FAIL)

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Life long learning?

• Assessment lever
• Web 2.0 technologies require experiential
  learning
• Individual feedback

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This Talk

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• We gratefully acknowledge support for this
  project by a grant from the Centre for Bioscience
  Departmental Teaching Enhancement Scheme.