Progress of my ALT project
- 1. Application of Learning Technologies Project
- 2. Rationale - Training programme for PhD students - Significant number distance learning PhD students - ~80 different training sessions (all synchronous face-to-face & few online)
- 3. Rationale - cont. - What about distance learners? - Nothing is provided for them - Distance learners have the highest risk of dropping out and not completing their studies (Peters, 1992)
- 4. Project overview - Creating audio-presentation (slidecast) - Workshop is ‘PhD Progression Points’ - Clarifies what are the steps in their PhD journey, what are the milestones and time scales, what students’ responsibilities are, responsibilities of their supervisors etc.
- 5. Project overview - cont. - In past - recorder online sessions and made it available - Why audio? - Durbridge (1984) emphasises that ‘as compared with written text, the spoken word can influence both cognition (adding clarity and meaning) and motivation (by conveying directly a sense of the person creating those words)’.
- 6. Project overview – cont. - Slidecast will be online – always accessible! - Students can engage with it, learn from it at their own time. - Lacrombe and McCosker (2005) found that 60% participants in the online PhD essentials course are ‘campus-based’ students.
- 7. Project so far… - Adapting the existing presentation √ - Write the ‘story’ that goes with it √ - Set up/download software (Audacity) needed for recordings and test if all works √ - Record the ‘story’ √ - Synchronise it with slides √ - Upload and share √ - Evaluate
- 8. What are Progression Points for? - Provide Structure and Support - Evaluate Progress - Quality Assurance Sisyphus from www.mythweb.com/encyc/zooms/sisyphus.gif
- 9. What are Progression Points for? Structure! http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2037/2201791390_7bc614e27c.jpg
- 10. Project so far… - Adapting the existing presentation √ - Write the ‘story’ that goes with it √ - Set up/download software (Audacity) needed for recordings and test if all works √ - Record the ‘story’ √ - Synchronise it with slides √ - Upload and share NEXT STEP
- 11. Evaluation - Create an online questionnaire (SurveyMonkey) - Online questionnaire to all PGRs - Q: if the slidecast was useful and in what way? - Slidecast will be available on Slideshare - Slideshare gives data on how many views, embeds and downloads.
- 12. References: Durbridge, N. 1984. Media in course design, The Role of Technology in Distance Education. Kent: Croom Helm. Larcombe W. And McCosker A. 2005. Postgraduate Essentials: An Online transition programme for commencing PhD students. LAS2005: critiquing and reflecting. pp.109-118. Peters O. 1992. Some observations on dropping out in distance education. Distance Education, 13(2), pp.234-269.