What gets kids to use a Virtual Learning Environment?
Book Details
Author(s)Daniel Needlestone
ISBN / ASINB006M3CRLO
ISBN-13978B006M3CRL3
Sales Rank99,999,999
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
Are you trying to work out how to use your VLE? (Virtual Learning Environment)
Have you spent a lot of money on a system but not sure how your students will use it?
Do you want to see how to get students to use your VLE?
This ebook presents the results of a Masters level research project by a classroom teacher and e-learning expert. It analyses how the author's students in three age groups used a VLE and gives ideas on how to plan for effective VLE use. It also provides a full analysis of the research and is fully referenced allowing the reader to search other related publications.
The information in the ebook would be of use to any teachers, e-learning professionals, school leaders and researchers.
The virtual learning environment used in the research is Moodle but it is not specific to this VLE.
Book Length Approx. 70 kindle pages.
Full Abstract:
Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) become compulsory in UK schools from 2008. A great deal of public money has been and will be spent on them. Research on VLEs in schools is sparse and research on what makes students use VLEs even more so. This study builds on a practitioner’s observation that students of different ages use VLEs in different ways. Through focus groups, a survey and the analysis of VLE access logs, this survey investigates why students use or don’t use VLEs and looks for differences and patterns in the uses of students in three different year groups.
Analysis of results shows that there were significant differences between year groups in perception and usage, and that the youngest students were more eager users of the VLE. Communication and homework were found to be two key factors for student use. The study advises that schools take the opinions of pupils into account when designing or procuring VLEs and suggests that more research on what makes a successful school VLE would be invaluable to school decision makers who often have few experiences in this field.
Have you spent a lot of money on a system but not sure how your students will use it?
Do you want to see how to get students to use your VLE?
This ebook presents the results of a Masters level research project by a classroom teacher and e-learning expert. It analyses how the author's students in three age groups used a VLE and gives ideas on how to plan for effective VLE use. It also provides a full analysis of the research and is fully referenced allowing the reader to search other related publications.
The information in the ebook would be of use to any teachers, e-learning professionals, school leaders and researchers.
The virtual learning environment used in the research is Moodle but it is not specific to this VLE.
Book Length Approx. 70 kindle pages.
Full Abstract:
Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) become compulsory in UK schools from 2008. A great deal of public money has been and will be spent on them. Research on VLEs in schools is sparse and research on what makes students use VLEs even more so. This study builds on a practitioner’s observation that students of different ages use VLEs in different ways. Through focus groups, a survey and the analysis of VLE access logs, this survey investigates why students use or don’t use VLEs and looks for differences and patterns in the uses of students in three different year groups.
Analysis of results shows that there were significant differences between year groups in perception and usage, and that the youngest students were more eager users of the VLE. Communication and homework were found to be two key factors for student use. The study advises that schools take the opinions of pupils into account when designing or procuring VLEs and suggests that more research on what makes a successful school VLE would be invaluable to school decision makers who often have few experiences in this field.
