ELESIG

Evaluation of Learners' Experiences of e-learning Special Interest Group

ELESIG enjoys contributory sponsorship from a number of sources including the UK Higher Education Academy

ELESIG is an international community of researchers and practitioners from higher and further education who are involved in investigations of learners' experiences and uses of technology in learning. ELESIG members work together to share knowledge and practice and develop a shared repertoire of resources which will be of benefit to the community and the sector.

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If you blog or post about ELESIG please use the tag "#ELESIG".

This online community of practice is moderated and managed by Helen Whitehead, community consultant. Pease feel free to contact me.
Listen to our interview with Jana Dlouha of the Czech Republic (furthest travelled member to attend a f2f event) on why she joined ELESIG (below under podcasts)

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ELESIG Symposium - DIGITAL FUTURES

Presentations and pictures from the event are now available - see below

Join us on January 21, 2010 from 9:45am to 4pm
at: iLab, Innovation Works, University of Reading
ELESIG's 8th face to face symposium featured contributions from key colleagues who have been researching the varied use of tools and technologies and have developed insights into the future digital learner. The event included presentations and activities on the future digital learner and mobile technologies, news of the second round of ELESIG small grants awards, a members’ corner to share and exchange experiences of researching and evaluating the learners’ experiences and an organising group meeting. Programme for the day.

Welcome and overview by Rhona Sharpe and Malcolm Ryan
elesig_210110 welcome.ppsx

Mobiles, Mobility, Connectedness and the 'Learner Experience' John Traxler
ELESIG Draft Mobiles.pdf
ELESIG Mobiles, Mobility, Connectednes.ppsx

Re-perceiving the present through imagining the future
Richard Sandford of Futurelab
3-worlds.pdf
RichardSandford_ELESIG10.ppsx

Members Corner
Lucy Stone: Leicester College: The HELLO Project
ELESIG Presentation_stone_210110.pdf
Anne Smith: Reading University: project on assessment of discussion board contributions
Ellen Lessner: Abingdon and Witney College: Digital literacy induction project
Elesig2003.ppsx
Kyriaki Anagnostopoulou, Middlesex University: What is a "Head of e-Learning"?
Poster Handouts.pdf

Latest Activity

bill steele, Karen Ver, Elsa Martinez and 7 other members are attending ELESIG Admin's event
February 25, 2010 from 4pm to 5pm
John Morrison from Vancouver will be reporting on his PhD project on the influences of students' experiences on their understandings of learning. The dominant approach to elearning has been course-based approaches to elearning. If in the future we…
3 hours ago
Dragos, Alison Dent, Dr Gaynor Sharp and 1 more joined ELESIG
3 hours ago
Chris Hall is attending Malcolm's event
April 29, 2010 from 9:45am to 4pm
Please note that you may register your interest in the event by using the RSVP feature in Ning but MUST complete a registration form when available. The ninth ELESIG Symposium led by Dr Chris Jones of the Open University will examine contrasts and…
6 hours ago
February 25, 2010 from 4pm to 5pm
John Morrison from Vancouver will be reporting on his PhD project on the influences of students' experiences on their understandings of learning. The dominant approach to elearning has been course-based approaches to elearning. If in the future we…
6 hours ago

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Blog Posts

Shirley Hunter-Barnett

Learners’ experiences of audio feedback

8th October



Sees the start of a new project for me, the aim of which will be to explore the impact of audio feedback for widening participation students taking online courses. I have been fortunate in receiving one of ELESIG small grants to buy 3 MP3 digital voice recorders, which will be used to record feedback. This feedback will then be embedded within students’ electronically submitted assignments and returned to them, using the universities VLE assignment submission

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Posted by Shirley Hunter-Barnett on February 8, 2010 at 5:32pm

Jen

My notes from first Midlands meeting, as promised!



Sorry for the delay in posting these Gemma!




Apologies also for the patchiness of the notes, as I started off enthusiastically writing a lot, but had my usual post-lunch energy low and the notes get progressively sparser!! And please do correct
anything I've noted down wrong. Have pasted in from doc so this might format weird



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Posted by Jen on February 5, 2010 at 3:28pm

Tom Preskett

Mapping Web 2.0 tools onto Higher Education

I thought I'd reflect on what happened last week and how my thinking moved on. Here at the Institute of Education (an HE college in the UK) academic individuals are more inclined to seek my help at the moment. Mostly this is to do with increasing financial pressures which mean that distance learning is a logical way to tap into overseas and long distance markets. I think this is true of HE everywhere. So what I need to do is make sure that what I say to them is at the right level and steer them… Continue

Posted by Tom Preskett on February 1, 2010 at 2:47pm

Previous events - reports and downloads

November Webinar on E-portfolios: Please join in with our discussions in the forum for this event, whether you can make the synchronous event or not.

11 am in DimDim: Practice
Thanks to those who joined us for this introduction to the webinar.

2 pm in DImDim: KEYNOTE
Nurturing learning communities in an e-portfolio system to enhance student learning
Invited speakers Julie Hughes and Emma Purnell

Many thanks to Emma and Julie for a fascinating session - so much shared!
Feel free to take the discussion into the forums.

View Recording
View Chat Transcript

Download Recording
Download Chat Transcript

ELESIG Summer Symposium 23rd-24th June 2009

ELESIG residential impact symposium critically examining the nature of the learner experience in relation to feedback and assessment. Workshops on audio feedback by Will Stewart of University of Bradford, reporting the JISC ASEL project and Prof. Norah Jones of University of Glamorgan on learner experience research methodologies.

Listen to an interview with Will Stewart about Audio Feedback

View the video of Norah Jones' Learner experience research methodologies workshop.: First part: Second part

Appy for funding from the ELESIG Small Grants Scheme 2009


Listen to some evaluative comments on the summer symposium -->

ELESIG /QA-QESIG Webinar Wednesday 20th May 2009

Quality assurance and quality enhancement in the area of e-learning: case studies of implementation.
What are the implications of student experience research as a central element of quality enhancement?
FORUM HERE | Recording of Elluminate sessions

QA-QESIG website

ELESIG Impact Seminar 29th January 2009

Outcomes of the ELESIG SYMPOSIUM: Impact of learner experience research – using evidence to change policy on 29th January are now in the forums



Impact of learner experience research – Digital literacies

The discussions are stil available from the ELESIG Symposium - Digital Literacies - 20th Nov 08 in Birmingham if you would like to add your comments, and most have the presentations now attached!
Visit the forum here for updates throughout the day, and do feel free to comment!

ELESIG Webinar 27th June 08: Implementing Practice: Influencing Change


Check out the discussion on Using online diaries and journals to evaluate learning (with special guests Debby Cotton, Emma Purnell and Sue Murray) Read the discussion here

Webinar on Methods for Researching the Learner Experience

Thanks to all who took part in our Webinar. Catch up on the discussions in the forums:
11 am: Doug Gowan on Methods used in the LEX project
3 pm - Rhona Sharpe (chair) and colleagues: Surveys in Learner Experience Research

4 pm - Launch of cluster groups. Which group will you join?
 
 

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Students and Web 2.0 - a slideshare

 

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