Flexible Learning Support in an Inflexible Society

Griffiths, Lee

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“…A flexible/blended leaning approach for improving academic-student communications in order to enhance learning of full-time students in Higher Education has been shown to be very effective [8]. The growth in online learning and teaching as a proportion of teaching overall, both in the form of completely online courses and blended courses is well documented in [9], [10].…”

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Collaborative efforts to enhance power engineering education in Australia

Mishra

Ledwich

O’Shea

et al. 2012

2012 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting

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Collaborative efforts to enhance power engineering education in Australia

Mishra

Ledwich

O’Shea

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2012 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting

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“…(Willets 2010) and become edgeless (Comrie 2011) in order to improve their accessibility and overcome factors such as time available for study and financial support. If done well, this will undoubtedly drive student success (Griffiths 2011), in an environment where there is already, or will soon be, no government funding (Blass, Jasman, and Shelley 2010). Predictions suggest that in the UK at least the student population will remain constant for the next 15Á20 years (The future size and shape of the higher education sector in the UK 2009) and thus demand for the service is expected to remain fairly constant.…”

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ALT-C 2012 Conference Proceedings - A confrontation with reality

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2012

Research in Learning Technology

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EDITORIAL Editorial for proceedings papersHere are the Proceedings Papers of the 2012 ALT Conference ''A confrontation with reality'', held in Manchester, England. Each paper reports on a piece of research, possibly in its early stages, states a point of view or summarises an area of work, perhaps giving new insights. This supplement contains 18 papers, an increase over previous years.The conference has five themes which are:. Problem solving Á finding effective solutions to technical problems and using learning technology to solve institutional problems. . Openness and sharing Á methods and frameworks for collaboration and sharing of knowledge and resources between practitioners and between providers, and the evidence to justify this. . Entrepreneurialism Á moving resources from where they have low yield for learning and for learners to where their yield is higher. . Mainstreaming Á applying learning technology on a large scale in pioneering ways that enthuse learners and are welcomed by teachers and administrators. . Sustainability Á of technologies, models and approaches.Problem solving is the bread and butter of learning technology practitioners. Two papers look at new solutions to familiar pedagogic problems. Essa and Ayad (2012) discuss how to use predictive and statistical techniques to identify those students most at risk of not completing a learning programme Á in a way that also helps to identify an appropriate intervention to address the learners' difficulties. Taylor (2012) looks at the problem of using video effectively in a physiotherapy context to support learners on placements, rather than relying on occasional face to face visits.The other three papers on problem solving are more focussed on the actual techniques being used. Mor and Craft (2012) report on a workshop looking at all aspects of the evolving use of learning design Á from tools through methods and frameworks. Alsubait, Parsia and Sattler (2012) propose an ontological approach to automatic generation of analogy questions in multiple choice format. Flavin (2012) discusses, in part through survey results, the increasing role of disruptive technologies Á those that were not designed for education but have become widely adopted by learners.The largest number of proceedings papers is in the area of openness and sharing. This area often coincides with the need to confront reality in terms of the limited resources available. McGuigan and Golden (2012) report on the introduction of a standardised online tutoring system for learners gaining a Teaching Qualification in Further Education: the system provides generic email, blog and micro-blog facilities and allows support to be roster-based. Cochrane (2012) reflects on three failed m-learning projects, identifying critical failure factors by comparing them with a larger number of successful ones. A significant cause of failure is not updating pedagogy to match the introduced technology. Two further papers on openness and sharing have a discipline base. Reinhardt and Rosen (2012) report on...

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“…If done well, this will undoubtedly drive student success (Griffiths 2011), in an environment where there is already, or will soon be, no government funding (Blass, Jasman, and Shelley 2010). Predictions suggest that in the UK at least the student population will remain constant for the next 15Á20 years (The future size and shape of the higher education sector in the UK 2009) and thus demand for the service is expected to remain fairly constant.…”

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A profile of the future: what could HTML 5 do for HE by 2015?

Griffiths

Ogden

Aspin

2012

Research in Learning Technology

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HTML 5 is the most significant update of HTML in the last 10 years since XHTML was introduced. It promises a vastly improved user experience, increased browser features, cross compatibility and the ability to provide semantic content. In this paper we discuss the near future position for Higher Education in terms of technological transform, the proposed capabilities of HTML 5, and how they may change and how virtual learning environments are implemented in the future. We offer a set of education-based scenarios and how the emerging standard could benefit them. Finally we conclude with possible implementation timescales.

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Flexible Learning Support in an Inflexible Society

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Collaborative efforts to enhance power engineering education in Australia

Collaborative efforts to enhance power engineering education in Australia

ALT-C 2012 Conference Proceedings - A confrontation with reality

A profile of the future: what could HTML 5 do for HE by 2015?

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