Online learning for researchers: experiences of creating a collaborative online tutorial
- 1. Online learning for researchers: experiences of creating a collaborative online tutorial Jenny Coombs University of Nottingham Liz Martin DeMontfort University
- 2. Overview • Project background • Survey results: what do researchers want from an online tutorial • Content creation and authoring tool • Evaluation of pilot units • Taking a collaborative approach - benefits and challenges • Quick demo • The future
- 3. Background •Aim to create online tutorials aimed at researchers –Re-usable –Re-purposable •Number of East Midlands institutions interested •EMRSG Project consortium: Image by Ben Mills, used under a Creative Commons Licence, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:East- –Loughborough, Nottingham, Midlands-Ambulance-Service-map.png Coventry, De Montfort Universities
- 4. Timetable
- 5. Online Survey • Researchers’ experiences of information skills training • Importance attached to various research tasks • Confidence in carrying out these tasks • Research staff at Loughborough, Nottingham and De Montfort (DMU) universities – 224 responses – 11 face-to-face interviews
- 7. Findings: How do researchers want to learn?
- 8. Findings: Skills rated most/least important
- 9. Findings: Skills most/least confident
- 11. Authoring tool • Xerte • Open source • Content can be re- used and repurposed • Designed for non- techies • Technical help
- 12. Evaluation: Perception v feedback
- 14. Perception v feedback Important to promote research Promotion seen as too aggressive
- 15. Perception v feedback Content of video is more Academic not important smart enough than aesthetics Distracted by background
- 16. Taking a collaborative approach Image by Nicola Corboy, used under a Creative Commons Licence, http://www.flickr.com/photos/n_corboy/4921290518/sizes/m/in/photostream
- 18. Recommendations for collaboration
- 19. Quick look at a unit
- 20. The Future Added to Jorum and Open Courseware to facilitate sharing Dissemination of research outputs Future unit – reference management www.emrsg.org.uk
- 21. Contacts Coventry University De Montfort University Chris Bark Liz Martin c.bark@coventry.ac.uk emartin@dmu.ac.uk Judy Thompson j.thompson@coventry.ac.uk Loughborough University University of Nottingham Helen Young Wendy Stanton h.young@lboro.ac.uk wendy.stanton@nottingham.ac.uk Ruth Stubbings Jenny Coombs r.e.stubbings@lboro.ac.uk jenny.coombs@nottingham.ac.uk Keep in touch with the project at: http://www.emrsg.org.uk
- 22. Questions?
Editor's Notes
- #20: Demo Show in Website how they can use and download the units Journals Can use the arrow navigation Each starts with a quote Aims and objectives Table of contents: Reflection – typical page type in Xerte Activity: your journal publication strategy Using a video from a senior academic to get the researchers to reflect on the advice and their experiences. Used videos a lot as the feedback from researchers is that they wanted to learn from each other. Which type of journal uses a tabbed approach to producing information Next page – similar tabbed approach What are the key elements of a good journal – just one example of an interactive exercise in Xerte Next page – multiple perspectives