ELESIG

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

Supported by the 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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Grant funding available from ELESIG!

ELESIG Small Grants Scheme January 2010 - Deadline 1st Dec 09

ELESIG is the Evaluation of Learners' Experiences of e-learning Special Interest Group. The small grants scheme has been supported by the UK Higher Education Academy.

ELESIG is offering small grants to community members to engage in activities in line with our aim to:

  • develop a shared repertoire of resources which will be of benefit to the community and the sector and which build on shared knowledge and practice about learner experience research.

Proposals are invited from individuals or groups, which lead to the production of outputs which will help ELESIG meet its aims. You can see examples of previously funded projects.

Activities

The funding should be used to support activities which will take place between 15 January 2010 and 31 October 2010. Suggested activities include, but are not limited to:

  • writing an interpretative overview of an area of learner experience research
  • producing a series of videos of interviews with key researchers in the area
  • writing a helpsheet or guide on a particular data collection method
  • offering to blog regularly about your research on elesig.ning.com
  • hosting improved networking facilities for ELESIG members
  • collating an annotated bibliography of learner experience research methods
  • producing evidence of the impact of learner research on practitioners

Funding

We expect to fund 3-5 projects of up to £500 each. Proposals will be evaluated by a subgroup of the ELESIG organizing committee according to certain criteria. More information

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Blog Posts

ELESIG Midlands Group

First meetings and progress

Well,

The main instigators of this ELESIG Midlands group - Gemma Towle and Rob Howe have been hard at work. After emails flying backwards and forwards between institutions (Gemma at Loughborough University and Rob at The University of Northampton) and a face to face meeting hosted by Gemma at Loughborough, schedules have been made, dates decided and primary promotion started. In an attempt to gain a wider audience and participants, provisions have been made to provide a presentation regarding t… Continue

Posted by ELESIG Midlands Group on November 18, 2009 at 8:14pm

Rhona Sharpe

JISC Invitation to Tender

Elesig members may well be interested in this ITT ..

The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) wishes to commission a study on how UK further and higher education institutions are supporting the development of effective learners in a digital age through the implementation of relevant institution-wide strategies and policies. These will be strategies and policies which embed technology to enhance the learning experience and ensure provision for the development of learning literacies for a d… Continue

Posted by Rhona Sharpe on November 13, 2009 at 3:35pm

E.A.

Lexdis and Web2Access cross the pond and back again for the JISC online conference.

I am writing this blog rather early in the morning Denver Colorado time... sometime Jet lag can have its uses! I am attending the 12th Annual Accessing Higher Ground – Accessible Media, Web and Technology Conference in Colorado to show how Seb Skuse, Russell Newman and Chris Phethean have developed a suite of accessibility tools that can help to make access to the web e… Continue

Posted by E.A. on November 13, 2009 at 3:12pm

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

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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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