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Student Interaction with a Sakai VLE in Plant Sciences

Student Interaction with a Sakai VLE in Plant Sciences. University of Cambridge, UK. CMI Teaching and Learning Project Aims. To develop learning approaches and resources to enhance the effectiveness of small group teaching in 2 nd year Plant and Microbial Sciences course.

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Student Interaction with a Sakai VLE in Plant Sciences

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  1. Student Interaction with a Sakai VLE in Plant Sciences University of Cambridge, UK Sakai Conference 13th June 2007

  2. CMI Teaching and Learning Project Aims To develop learning approaches and resources to enhance the effectiveness of small group teaching in 2nd year Plant and Microbial Sciences course Sakai Conference 13th June 2007

  3. CMI Teaching and Learning Project Identification of potential new practices (from literature, theory or participants) Analysis and review of effectiveness of new practices Development of new resources to support new practices Intervention : implementation of resources and practices Sakai Conference 13th June 2007

  4. CamTools– an integrated learning environment Sakai Conference 13th June 2007

  5. Why use a wiki? • Allows intuitive organisation of content • Quick and easy way to make web pages • Organisational flexibility • Editing rights can be set for individual pages • Editing rights can be changed at any time • Allows easy arrangement of pages • Possible to make links within pages • Link to e-learning objects • Link lecture topics together • Link to appropriate webpages • Link to glossary pages • All wiki pages are searchable Sakai Conference 13th June 2007

  6. Lecture notes Sakai Conference 13th June 2007

  7. Additional resources in CamTools Exemplar essays Self-assessment questions Connotea library Video explanations Flash animations Glossary definitions Podcasts 3D molecules Concept map Metabolic jigsaw Sakai Conference 13th June 2007

  8. Exemplar essays Sakai Conference 13th June 2007

  9. Self-assessment questions Sakai Conference 13th June 2007

  10. Connotea library Sakai Conference 13th June 2007

  11. Video explanations Sakai Conference 13th June 2007

  12. 3D structures Sakai Conference 13th June 2007

  13. CamTools usage questions • How has usage varied throughout the year? • Have different students engaged with the site to different extents? • What do the students think about the site? Sakai Conference 13th June 2007

  14. Evaluation strategy Sakai Conference 13th June 2007

  15. CamTools usage questions How has usage varied throughout the year? Sakai Conference 13th June 2007

  16. Unique visitors through the year Sakai Conference 13th June 2007

  17. CamTools usage questions Have different students engaged with the site to different extents? Sakai Conference 13th June 2007

  18. Individual student usage Sakai Conference 13th June 2007

  19. Individual student usage – content read Sakai Conference 13th June 2007

  20. Individual student usage – content read Content read Student Sakai Conference 13th June 2007

  21. What did ‘student K’ do? • Visited site 58 times • Sourced all past examination papers • Looked at a range of exemplar essays • Accessed practical class information • Read 7 lecture wiki pages • Accessed archived 1st year Cells notes • Watched 4 video explanations • Used a Jmol tutorial Sakai Conference 13th June 2007

  22. Individual student usage – content read Content read Student Sakai Conference 13th June 2007

  23. How about ‘student O’? • Visited site 60 times • Watched 12 flash animations • Sourced all past examination papers • Looked at 1st and 2.i exemplar essays • Accessed practical class information • Read 2 lecture powerpoints • Read selected wiki lecture notes: Sakai Conference 13th June 2007

  24. CamTools usage questions What do students think about the site? Sakai Conference 13th June 2007

  25. Student questionnaire • How useful do they find the site and how frequently do they use it? • During which terms and vacations did they use it? • Rate components of site for usefulness and frequency of use • Free text comment box Sakai Conference 13th June 2007

  26. Student questionnaire 19 out of 26 students responded (73% return) Sakai Conference 13th June 2007

  27. Student questionnaire Sakai Conference 13th June 2007

  28. Student comments – what they like Video explanations / online tutorials • “Really like the videos! Like the gene for gene one for example.” • “Tutorials are excellent.” Past exam questions sorted by topic • “Links to Short Answer Questions and Essays grouped by topic are very helpful when revising.” • “Grouping exam questions with their relevant topic is very useful, especially for exam preparation.” Links to papers • “Links to papers very helpful since they are hard to find sometimes.” Organisational tools • “Announcements, and the schedule (for practicals etc.)” Sakai Conference 13th June 2007

  29. Student comments – requests Self-assessment questions • “More self-assessment questions. There is not much in the test yourself section at the moment.” • [more] “multi choice questions would be ideal, they allow the student to identify holes in their knowledge and wouldn't require extra work on the staff's part in terms of marking.” Exemplars • “The exemplar essays are a fantastic idea, but they would have been useful to have from the start of the Easter holidays, when revision really kicks in.” • “Putting up answers to past exam papers, particularly the practical exams and short answer questions. This would be very helpful for exam preparation. (Engineering seem to have an efficient way of doing this).” Videos & Animations • “More animations/ videos (as they are very useful).” Sakai Conference 13th June 2007

  30. Student comments – valuing variety • Reluctance to score any component on questionnaire below 3 as ‘useful’ • “In reference to the "references" question above, I think the best idea would be to have the online library AND to have links in the lectures.” • “In regards to question 11, both are useful depending on the situation.” • “I find I don’t often visit CamTools, but when I do I find lots of interesting things and spend time watching videos etc. and forgetting why I was there in the first place!” 11. Recently, a new tool called ‘references’ was added to the IB PMS CamTools. This is an online library of all the journal papers for the course. Do you prefer online references this way, or to be linked to their occurrence in lecture notes? Sakai Conference 13th June 2007

  31. One year in – future development • Exemplars for practical paper and short-answer questions • More self-assessment questions • More videos and animations Sakai Conference 13th June 2007

  32. One year in - Some conclusions and ways forward • Strong influence of examinations • Common ideas about value of items • Usage shows a lot of variation • Value richness of the environment • Offers flexibility in supporting learning Sakai Conference 13th June 2007

  33. Josh Jacobs Lori Breslow Warren Seering Patrick Carmichael Helen Burchmore Naomi Irvine Harriet Truscott John Norman sakai@plantsci.cam.ac.uk http://www.tfln.org Keith Johnstone Fran Tracy Sakai Conference 13th June 2007

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