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KatherineMelling |
Enhancing services for distance and part-time learners
Jan 3 2008, 5:05 AM EST
A new challenge for me at SBS is providing services to part-time/distance learners, e.g., the two-year executive MBA programme for full-time professionals. There is limited contact time with the students (about 8 weeks in 2 years) and fees and expectations are high. How can Web 2.0 applications boost our presence in these students' experience? - e.g. I'd like to use social media for induction/user education, RSS to push resources and inform students of frequent updates to our online hyperlinked reading lists, instant messaging/chat to guide people through databases wherever they are in the world, etc. One "concern" is the profliferation of different websites around the university - how best can departmental intranets link to OULS sites without confusing people? Could our SBS library Sharepoint site usefully become a mashup to aggregate relevant library content from around the uni for our users? (Is this technically possible?) Would it matter if readers didn't know exactly where this info came from...?
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SuePemberton |
1. RE: Enhancing services for distance and part-time learners
Jan 7 2008, 11:29 AM EST
I'm interested in this aspect too. We have award-bearing courses where students spend the odd week in Oxford but most of their time studying worldwide. Their courses are mainly delivered via Moodle. I'm not sure how much use is made of social networking tools by the courses as I don't have access to the individual course VLEs. Some time back I did have a meeting with one of the staff from our TALL unit to talk about the general issue of linking library information and resources to online course information, but neither of us has had the time to folow it up. Like Katherine, I can see some applications but don't want to make life more complicated. We also have entirely online courses which are the equivalent of our weekly classes so students are entitled to much less (eg they don't get remote access to electronic resources) but I'm sure there's still things we could do.
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2. RE: Enhancing services for distance and part-time learners
Jan 9 2008, 8:36 AM EST
In researching Web 2.0 I came across the following case study from LSE. it is about distance learners and social software.http://clt.lse.ac.uk/Projects/Towards%20a%20social%20science%20of%20web%202.0.pdf Hope it is helpful. Do you find this valuable? |
