True Learning

Online Journal keeping track of the ideas and development of my current research.

Entries Tagged as 'online learning'

Email interviews designed

April 6th, 2006 · Comments Off

I have drafted two email interview schedules which have ten questions. 1) Follow up interview for learners who respond to the survey; and 2) Interview for experienced online facilitators and developers outside of UHI. I will pilot these shortly.

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Tags: methods · online learning

Designing the learner survey to assess preferences

March 23rd, 2006 · Comments Off

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Tags: focus · learning · online learning