A powerpoint presentation with quotes and readings on the subject of Student Experiences of E-learning.

1. “E-learning needs to do “The focus of this literacies
more than improving approach[…] is on the students’
access and learner background and prior experience
control. It also needs to […] and familiarizing students
improve the process and with the academic practices of
outcomes of learning.” that subject area …”
Student Experiences of E-learning
“The only thing that Readings “… when associated with
matters in education learning and assessment,
is the quality of technologies are always
what learners do” sites of textual practice”
“It soon becomes clear that there is no homogenous Goodfellow, Robin and Lea, Mary (2007).
‘net generation’. Universities and teachers should Challenging E-Learning in the University: a
not let themselves be conned by pundits into Literacies Perspective. Maidenhead & New
York: McGraw Hill, Society for Research into
believing that the incoming ‘digital natives’ know
Higher Education, Open University Press.
what they need or that their needs are uniform or
radically different from anything we have seen Ellis, R.A. and Goodyear, P. (2010) Student
before.” experiences of e-learning in higher education:
the ecology of sustainable innovation. London:
RoutledgeFalmer

2. “Disciplines, by their nature,
privilege some skills and ways of “The level at which
knowing over others ….. Use of different subject
subject-specific resources and web disciplines and their
sites is evident across all the tutors recommended
disciplines, but their use of tools using the web for
varies and can be related to the research varied greatly”
nature of the subject discipline”
“I search for what I need using Search Engines Reading 1: Discipline and the e-
and Wikipedia, and build up a list of things learning experience
that I need. I reference those through to
Conole, G., de Laat, M., Dillon, T., and
Word, and send the file to my peers through Darby, J. (2008) ‘Disruptive technologies’,
IM, where I get feedback and additional info. ‘pedagogical innovation’: What’s new?
on what’s going on and how the things I’m Findings from an in-depth study of
students’ use and perception of
researching relate to the current area of Technology. Computers & Education,
study” Volume 50, Issue 2, February 2008,
pp.511–524

3. “Participants in the
study were found to “…exploring the practices
interact with multiple of writing and reading and
and hybrid digital texts the production and
within and across both negotiation of digital texts
curricular and digital that are involved in the day
spheres” to day business of being a
student ..”
“Their communication can be as informal as Reading 2: Literacies and e-
the Instant Messenger communication learning
suggests but the group reports they produce
have to comply with institutional and Jones, S. and Lea, M. R. (2008)
“Digital Literacies in the Lives of
disciplinary conventions, engaging in a range Undergraduate Students: Exploring
of practices common to the production of Personal and Curricular Spheres of
academic texts” Practice.” The Electronic Journal of
e-Learning Volume 6 Issue 3 2008,
pp. 207 - 216

4. “An important
consideration in this “… for a number of
discussion is student activities, the proportion
equity.” of students who have
never used a particular
technology-based tool
outstripped those who
had.”
“It is increasingly recognised that while the
majority of incoming university students
possess a core set of technology based skills,
beyond those a diverse range of skills exist
across the student population [….] Moreover, Reading 3: The net generation?
it is recognised that core technology based Kennedy, G.E., Judd, T.S.,
skills do not necessarily translate into Churchward, A., Gray, K., Krause, K.
sophisticated skills with other technologies or (2008) First year students’
experiences with technology: Are they
general information literacy.” really digital natives? Australasian
Journal of Educational Technology
2008, 24(1), pp. 108-122
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5. “…the growth of […] ‘blended
“…students can learn learning’ in higher education has
through reflecting deeply resulted in a need to devise new
on the online submissions ways of measuring and
made by others if they investigating qualitatively
understand the purpose of different learning experiences of
the activity and approach students when they are
it in useful ways.” expected to follow a learning
activity across different learning
contexts.”
“Without understanding why they are
discussing, and how to approach the Reading 4: Conceptions and
approaches
discussions appropriately, in both face-to-
face and on-line contexts, students find it ELLIS, R., GOODYEAR, P., O’HARA,
difficult to see the connections between the A., PROSSER, M. (2007) The university
student experience of face-to-face and
discussions in class and online and what they online discussions: coherence, reflection
are supposed to be learning.” and meaning. Research in Learning
Technology, North America, 15, mar.
2007
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6. Learning Resource Metadata
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Title Student Experiences of E-learning - Readings
Description Slides that could be used to introduce the four readings
Theme Student Experiences of E-learning
Subject HE - Education
Author Jane Hughes & Colleen McKenna: HEDERA, 2012
Owner The University of Bath
Audience Educational developers in accredited programmes & courses in higher education.
Issue Date 20/04/2012
Last updated Date 28/07/2012
Version Final – v1
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License Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 UK: England & Wales License.
ukoer, education, discthink, disciplinary thinking, hedera, university of bath, e-
Keywords learning, learning technologies, student experience, TEL, technology-enhanced
learning, e-learning practices, digital literacies
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