Currently, I am trying to come up with some suitable questions to include in the online survey. It’s not an easy task but I am certainly becoming clearer on the focus of my research by reading some of the literature to do with online learning and thinking through what it is exactly that I want to know.
Basically, I am looking [...]
Entries from March 2006
Designing the learner survey to assess preferences
March 23rd, 2006 · Comments Off
Tags: methods · online learning
Focus group completed
March 15th, 2006 · Comments Off
I’ve conducted a focus group with 6 learners currently doing a totally online course in order to look at some of the broad issues of networked learning and to help me to develop questions for the online survey. Themes covered were: campus or home-based; how do they know they have learned something; what do they like and dislike; printing [...]
Tags: findings · methods · online learning
Starting Point for This Research
March 14th, 2006 · Comments Off
The research problem I have started to investigate is that learners are not necessarily accomplishing learning online across all subjects. The quality of the courses varies. It seems to me that many online courses are not designed and delivered with the learners in mind and are therefore less effective than they could be.
I am keen [...]
Tags: focus · learning · online learning
Research Focus
March 9th, 2006 · Comments Off
What are the conditions for accomplishing learning online through different channels across subject areas?
My research aims to investigate the student view of the learning process online and provide some insight into how learning takes place online. In short, I am interested in finding out the underlying e-pedagogy.
One of the outcomes will be to attempt to recommend the minimal standards [...]
Tags: e-pedagogy · focus
