University of London Centre for Distance Education
Developing course team approaches to task design
The rationale behind this project is to support and develop course teams with the task design process for e-learning. As the use of e-learning expands in Higher Education (HE) staff play a critical role in developing successful and appropriate pedagogies on their courses. Most HE staff have not been e-learners themselves and thus need more assistance to engage with the affordances technology can offer (Laurillard, D. 2002). Crucially the experiences and perceptions of students engaged in e-learning need to be considered in the task design process.
The proposed research project will be a qualitative investigation on the task design process on three courses where distance e-learning is a key component. This work will assist and develop HE staff and course teams in particular to engage critically with pedagogy in their development of e-learning tasks.
The research methods will include: observation of e-learning tasks, semi-structured interviews with staff and students, qualitative questionnaires with students, focus group research activities with course teams.
Award holder: Adam Unwin (a.unwin@ioe.ac.uk), TRA poster (PDF file).