Presentation at Poznan University School of English 13th April 2010

1. e-learning by the people, for the people and of the people Chris Hall - Swansea University

2. impressive increases……… … ..little real improvement

3. not promoting uptake but… … .. affect student learning

4. e-Learning driving lesson approach

5. Unless there is conscious learning on a regular basis…… the enterprise will die Bob Garratt

6. “ No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it. We must learn to see the world anew.” Albert Einstein

8. However……

9. Community of Practice

10. appreciative inquiry

11. What you want more of.......... ……… exists somewhere

12. Wenger’s 7 principles

13. evolution

14. A dialogue

15. different levels of participation

16. community spaces

17. focus on value

18. familiarity

19. excitement

20. rhythm

22. Benchmarking

23. positive honesty

24. Staff survey n=132 Student Survey n=960 Interviews Policies Usage Statistics “ Slices” Scoring Meeting

25. What did we find? ?

26. Which of the following tools have you used in teaching/study/work at Swansea University? Students – LOW Self-paced activities – 7% RSS Feeds – 6% Mindmapping – 5% Virtual Worlds - 2% Staff – LOW Personal Start Page – 7% Virtual Worlds – 5% Mindmapping - 4% Students High Presentation Software – 64% VLE – 60% Social Networking – 45% Wikis – 42% Online Video – 38% Quizurvey - 32% Staff – High Presentation Software - 68% VLE – 64% Quiz/Survey – 34% Online Video - 26%

27. Students Staff Self-paced activities 7% 18% Social Networking 45% 17% Wikis 42% 19%

28. Which of the following hardware do you use? Students Staff Desktop computer 55.5 90.2 Laptop computer 87.7 83.3 Netbook computer (EEE PC etc) 2.8 6.8 Mobile phone 84.1 81.8 Smart phone 3.6 5.3 PDA 3.4 18.9 Digital camera - still 64.1 75.0 Digital video camera 17.7 27.3 MP3 player (audio only) 52.5 40.2 MP4 player (with video) 19.7 6.8 PSP 6.4 6.8 DS Lite 8.6 12.9 Other (please specify) 3.1 3.8

29. Which of the statements below best describes most of the e-learning components of modules that you are enrolled on? Students Staff Administrative Use 49.9 47.0 Blended 30.0 17.4 Fully Online 5.3 3.0 No e-learning 14.4 24.2 NR 0.4 8.3

30. Where next?

31. Blackboard - some of my lecturers use it and when they do it's very useful as they put powerpoint lectures on before class which we just print off and take with so that we're not constantly trying to scribble down notes, means we can spend more time listening and just making extra notes.

32. [Lecturers name] blog for anatomy Use of electronic voting in lectures to reinforce ideas covered Access to notes and SDLs via Blackboard

33. The main use of technologies to support my learning is focused on Google

34. He aha te mea nui? He tangata He tangata He tangata What is the most important thing? It’s the people It’s the people It’s the people