Presentation and Video from Student Experience Seminar
The 2nd Annual Queen Mary Student Experience Seminar was held on Monday the 2nd March 2009.
The subject this year was Online Resources, and the students present concentrated very much on online learning as a whole, and on the VLE in particular.
I found the day extremely interesting. The video in particular showed me that what we’ve been working on here for the last (now 8!) years does have such an impact and effect on the daily lives of our students.
I was also heartened that the message was that the students want more – better organised, more timely, more consistent – e-learning and that, where once upon a time one might have expected to encounter some resistence to the idea of non face-to-face learning and course management, here there was a real thirst for it.
I was also pleased that almost all of what the students said they wanted is actually being done in some areas of the College, and that – though I take well the messages about back buttons and so forth – the interactivity they crave and functionality they want is mostly possible within the current VLE. I had the sense that we were getting there, but there’s much further to go.
In any case, not to shroud the objects in further context, you can download the SU video about online learning from our intranet here: http://qm-web.esd.qmul.ac.uk/podcasts/SUonlinelearningvideo.wmv (QM members will need to log in from off campus).
Note that it’s a large file though shouldn’t take more than a few seconds to download to your computer over the College network.
You can find the accompanying PowerPoint presentation here: http://qm-web.esd.qmul.ac.uk/docs/SUonlinelearning.ppt
You can also view this as a Flash file if you’d prefer, here: http://qm-web.esd.qmul.ac.uk/docs/SUOnlineLearning.swf