Wednesday, 4 February 2009
'New and extraordinary insights' at ELESIG
Rhonas Sharpe has made a couple of posts about ELESIG (one of the academic networks I manage the online space for) on her blog. She asked members what benefit they found from the experience of being a member of the community, and got some great answers:From Esyin Chew's "I have experienced something new and extraordinary insights that have challenged my preconceptions about digital literacy and learners' experience through ELESIG.”
to Jana Dlouha's "ELESIG is the working group with great potential for changes in higher (and other) education system as it works with learners' perspective - this is not as usual as it should be! Access to this research (and meta-research, researching the ways of research itself) is available through ELESIG work - often providing free methodological and other resources."
I'm pleased too that Amanda Jefferies was able to say that "The online NING network for ELESIG has been an excellent way to keep in touch 'virtually' with other researchers into the Student Experience and to be inspired by examples of innovative practice. "
More on Rhona's blogLabels: communities of practice, e-learning, elearning, elesig, HE, learner experience, onlne communities, Reach Further, research
posted by Helen Whitehead 12:45 PM
Wednesday, 12 March 2008
E:LESIG - for researchers of the student experience
I've just welcomed the 71st member to the new Ning community for ELESIG. It's great to see so many e-learning researchers and practitioners who have an interest in the learner experience. The take up for the community and for the inaugural workshop - was it only last week? - has been excellent and just shows what a need there is for a network of practice in this area.
Next job will be to get the directory of projects up and running - that's in pbwiki so that those associated with each project can edit and update the information about their work.
If you are interested in this Special Interest Group for studying the student's experience of e-learning, join us at ELESIG.NingLabels: elesig, learner experience, Ning, online community, social networking
posted by Helen Whitehead 10:48 AM
Thursday, 6 March 2008
ELESIG - a community for researchers into learners' experiences of e-learning
The inaugural ELESIG workshop takes place today in Birmingham. ELESIG is a Pathfinder network project: the Experiences of E-Learning Special Interest Group is intended for those involved in investigations and evaluations of learners' experiences of e-learning.The three collaborating institutions: Oxford Brookes University, University of Bradford and University of Greenwich are all actively involved in research in this area. Other investigators and practitioners are cordially invited to join our network.
ELESIG will support the investigators as they develop their research, building capacity within the sector as well providing rigorous research to support evidence informed practice. The work of ELESIG will be made public, the benefit of practitioners and researchers throughout the sector.
More about ELESIG: https://mw.brookes.ac.uk/display/elesig/About
Join the ELESIG community: elesig.ning.comLabels: elesig, learner experience, learners, Ning
posted by Helen Whitehead 9:29 AM
