Sarah's+comments

Sarah’s comments: The learners’ view – they expect continuous, readily available, easy access from where ever they are (mobile students, using different platforms…); they also expect a high quality professional product (design etc. important). There are very different levels of IT experience and confidence… Three key issues: Availability – open access vs secure elements – where are logs ins necessary? – DIT restrictions/university policies? Quality – design/presentation/usability Education – perhaps we need to educate our students a bit more about what they can expect from the desing, from using IT in general (e.g. it may go down!), promote self-help and problem solving approach to technical problems…. There are possibly three key components in our online resources - ‘content’ – the activities/lexicon (plus static course/assessment information). Something simple and accessible (e.g. web site, word document with links, interactive mindmap?) - tools for communication and collaboration (discussion forums etc. – social network?) - Virtual classroom (Elluminate!) We could encourage more student involvement - in the design of the course? - In the collation of their own set of learning resources - ‘lexicon PLUS’ model where they add their own materials to those provided as a starting point in the lexicon - In contributing to the learning of others – providing resources etc.?