Needs analysis and technology review

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Needs analysis and technology review

• early activities in Embedding Learning
  Technologies

Stephen BostockAdvisor for Technology and
LearningKeele Universitys.j.bostock_at_keele.ac.uk
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Summary of Analysis phase

• Overview
• Needs Analysis
• Document needs
• Reviewing a learning technology
• SWOT analysis
• Selecting a learning technology
• Frameworks for selection
• Including cost considerations
• Summarise as a Statement of Purpose
• Continuing professional development plan

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Rough stages of projects

• IT project
• 1. Feasibility
• 2. Analysis of requirements
• 3. Design
• 4. Build and test
• 5. Installation maintenance
• 6. Evaluation

• ELT project
• 1. (Initiation)
• 2. Analysis
• IT review
• Selection of LT
• 3. Design
• 4. (Build and test)
• 5. Implementation with students or clients
• 6. Evaluation
• 7. Disseminated

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Some issues

• A wide range of staff including support staff
• Different disciplines and students/clients
• Range of technical abilities
• Range of educational perspectives
• Projects may involve software development, or not
• Participants may come with a project in mind or
  not
• Mapping ELT outcomes onto all projects
• The order of activities is not simple
• ELT Dissemination Outcome is often late
• There are many sources of ideas on analysis

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Analysed opportunities and constraints in using
CIT- understand the problem
Conducted a review of CIT in learning and
teaching and shown an understanding of the
educational processes - generate solutions
Selected CIT appropriate to the learning
situation the first design decision
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Initiation

• Participant may come with a project, prompted by
• Course reviews
• Exposure to a technology or
• Seeing other courses using a technology
• External pressures such as
• The need for new courses
• Increased student numbers
• The need to reduce costs, or
• (worse) A policy to use learning technology.
• Or a project may not be obvious

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Initiation Introductions to learning technology

• Awareness of common problems and their learning
  technology solutions
• Workshops on main types of learning technology
• An introduction to learning technology within
  tertiary education in the UK, Ed. Seale J.and
  Rius-Riu M. for ALT 2001
• LTDI materials ed. Stoner G., 1997 especially
  What is learning technology and BRITE ideas
• CTI briefing sheets 1999
• Video Technology in teaching and learning,
  Southampton
• Recommended book Integrating technology in
  learning and teaching 2000 Maier P. and Warren A.

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Initiation Identifying a concern

• (adapted from Kemmis and McTaggart, 1988)
• What issues, problems or opportunities concern
  you now? About
• Teachers
• Students
• Subject matter
• Context
• Identify a theme and then elaborate it
• Make a preliminary assessment