An interactive, evolving, case-study approach to e-learning

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An interactive, evolving, case-study approach to
e-learning

• A Learning Sharing Event on e-learning,
  facilitated by CHAIN
• Weetwood Hall, Leeds, 22 23 March 2005

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What we did

• Determined wants needs
• Asked students staff what they wanted
• Determined solutions
• Implemented

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The needs

• 76 year 3 pre-registration nursing students
• 21 week module (must attend 538 theory hours)
• 60 hours face-to-face (approx 3 hours/week - 1
  contact day) for delivery
• 5 teachers (initially)
• Limited/no experience of online learning
• Low room availability

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The wants

• Facilitation v face-to-face methods
• Always-on availability
• Constructivist (understanding through
  interaction)
• Enjoyable (students teachers)
• Self-directed problem-solving

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Some solutions

• Increase lecture hours rejected
• Paper-based directed learning (workbooks etc)
  rejected by students
• Problem based learning (PBL)
• Use a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE)
• Combine PBL and VLE

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What we did next

• Determined opportunities for participation
• Learned PBL Blackboard (BB)
• Designed teaching learning system
• Online materials (www) supporting structure
  (BB)
• Trained students to use PBL and BB
• Implemented (tried evaluated it)

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Opportunities for participation

• Discussion group etiquette
• PBL groups
• Online feedback form
• Virtual classroom
• Discussion groups PBL logs
• Roving online facilitators
• Follow-up face-to-face feedback

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VLE-supported PBL
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Student comments on paper-based guided study

• a lot of us didn't bother with guided studies
  before
• many of us have still got incomplete ap guided
  studies from 1st year 

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Designing for participation

• Questions
• Best-guesses
• Risk-taking
• Open shared process - student staff
  partnership
• Flexibility
• Action, feedback, modification, evaluation

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Online chat about online chat

• it makes a big change from boring lectures! this
  is also a better way of feeding back for the
  people in the group who feel intimidated by
  speaking in front everyone
• I also agree that this is a good way of feeding
  back for those who do not often comment in
  classroom lectures due to fear of embarrassment

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Online chat comments on PBL logs

• i prefer the old way, but this makes you
  actually do the task 
• it did make me do it though unlike previous
  'guided study' which are still unanswered 
• its a good way of keeping students busy on their
  study days 

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Online comments on team working for PBL

• Very poor or non-existent input from too many
  group members
• I feel our team worked well together. We decided
  how we were going to do this and all kept to what
  we had decided we even planned for future
  sessions i.e. how we would rotate who collates
  so we all got some experience
• MUCH improved team participation -at last! Also
  much better quality of contributions

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Midpoint evaluation1
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Midpoint evaluation2
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Perhaps the final word?

• never thought Id say this but this blackboard
  thingy is quite fun!