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Transdisciplinary Educational Design: Creating A Structured Space For Critical Reflection On E-Learning Assessment Practices, Meg O'Reilly, Allan Ellis Feb 2013

Transdisciplinary Educational Design: Creating A Structured Space For Critical Reflection On E-Learning Assessment Practices, Meg O'Reilly, Allan Ellis

Dr Meg O'Reilly

Many academic staff are experiencing the multiple challenges and pressures of increased teaching loads, e-learning design and developments, ongoing research including the scholarship of teaching, as well as fiscal accountability. No wonder most lecturers have little time or energy left for the long-valued processes of critical reflection. This paper describes an educational design initiative of three cycles involving academic staff from a range of disciplines who came together with reference librarians and technical support staff in a series of meetings to reflect in a structured action learning process on their practices of designing assessment for e-learning. Creating a structured space …


Impact Of Learning Styles On E-Learning Environment: An Empirical Study, Shakeel Iqbal Jan 2013

Impact Of Learning Styles On E-Learning Environment: An Empirical Study, Shakeel Iqbal

Shakeel Iqbal

E-learning is a popular medium of imparting knowledge during this age of World Wide Web (www). A large number of educational institutions have adopted this medium to educate students globally. Some students find this medium very exciting and useful while others are not very comfortable with it. There is a need to identify the characteristics of students who are comfortable with this medium and those who are not. In this study, an attempt is made to match students learning style with their attitude towards e-learning. Learning style questionnaire (LSQ) developed by Honey and Mumford (1992) was used to determine the …


The Online, The Blended And The Flexible: Learning By Any Means Necessary, Mohammed M. Aman Dr. Dec 2012

The Online, The Blended And The Flexible: Learning By Any Means Necessary, Mohammed M. Aman Dr.

Mohammed M. Aman

Learning science informs us that different people learn differently in terms of pace and learning styles and that all students learn best when they are engaged with the learning materials and when they understand and work towards clear learning outcomes, not only in terms of pace but also in terms of pedagogy, format and mode(s) of delivery. Successful experiences with the early efforts of online and distance learning paved the way for more aggressive advancements in this area which led us to other format of learning that married face-to-face learning with online and most recently with a new method of …