[LINK] What students and teachers want from e-learning

Tom Worthington tom.worthington at tomw.net.au
Wed Nov 4 09:21:21 AEDT 2009


In "Listening to Students’ and Educators’ Voices: Research Findings", 
Kathryn Moyle and Susanne Owen (for DEEWR) provide a useful, timely 
credible information about Australian student and staff access, use and 
views on information technology for education: 
<http://www.deewr.gov.au/Schooling/DigitalEducationRevolution/Resources/Documents/ListeningToStudentsVoices.pdf>.

The research is from 2008 and covers primary and secondary schools,
vocational education (TAFE), universities:
http://www.aictec.edu.au/aictec/go/home/priorities/pid/233.

Communication and group work activities was one commonly valued use for
email and discussion lists. Online games, social networking and media
sites were of interest.

There was an interesting split with most primary students indicating
social networking sites are for fun, not learning and should not be
accessed at school. In contrast adult students believe social networking
  can be used for education. But all levels expect to have access to
computers and the Internet at educational institutions and home. They
also expect the teachers to be be able to use the technology to
communicate with them.

Unfortunately the research is reported in the form of a large, hard to 
read PDF document. I have extracted the executive summary of the report 
as plain text at: 
<http://www.tomw.net.au/blog/2009/11/listening-to-students-and-educators.html>.


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