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Demystifying Re-Usable Learning Objects
Beverly Leeds
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2009 (Oct 26, 2009) p. 478
This session will introduce the audience to a method of creating re-usable learning objects designed for non-technical academics. It will also demonstrate a range of re-usable learning objects produced by the E-Evolve and REVOLUTION projects and...
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Time Perspectives of Online Learning
Beverly Leeds
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2011 (Mar 07, 2011) pp. 453–459
This paper examines different time preferences amongst individual learners and change in temporal culture that technology has brought to learning. It argues that individual learners have different time preferences ranging from monochronic to...
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It's About Time: Temporal Structures in Online Learning
Beverly Leeds
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2011 (Oct 18, 2011) pp. 1388–1394
This paper examines different time preferences and temporal structures amongst individual learners and the change in temporal culture that technology has brought to learning. It argues that individual learners have different time preferences ranging ...
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Harnessing Technology for Work-Based Learning
Beverly Leeds
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2011 (Mar 07, 2011) pp. 449–452
The paper provides details of the technology and tools used by the TELSTAR project to deliver flexible work-based undergraduate programmes that offer students the opportunity to gain academic qualifications based on learning in the work place. The...
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Experiences and Perceptions of Online Collaborative Learning
Beverly Leeds
Global Learn 2010 (May 17, 2010) pp. 1348–1353
This paper will explore the experiences and perceptions of collaborative learning and peer assessment amongst part-time undergraduate students. It reports on a study into the learning experience of part-time undergraduate students undertaking the...
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Creating Open Educational Resources for Mobile Phones
Beverly Leeds
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2011 (Jun 27, 2011) pp. 457–460
This paper outlines the work undertaken by the TELSTAR project, funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) to create mobile phone learning resources. It will explore how resources for mobile phone learning can be developed using...
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Understanding the experience of blogging as an aid to work-related learning
Beverly Leeds
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2009 (Oct 26, 2009) pp. 2159–2165
This paper provides an examination of the experience of blogging as an aid to work-related learning. It explores whether learners identify learning opportunities and examines whether blogs provide an enhanced learning experience through...
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Creating Re-usable Open Educational Resources
Beverly Leeds
Global Learn 2010 (May 17, 2010) pp. 3615–3619
This paper outlines the work of two publicly funded projects at a UK university that created open educational resources (OERS) and an open access repository to locate and download these resources.. The OERs offered by EVOLUTION project have been...
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Personal Learning Spaces for Work-Based Learning
Beverly Leeds
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2011 (Oct 18, 2011) pp. 1395–1399
Today’s work activities are rarely constant and the vocationally successful people will need to replace the idea of task related skill with the “meta-competence of learning to learn”, Raelin (2008, pg13). Work-based learners will therefore need to...
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Harnessing Technology for Work-Based Learning
Beverly Leeds
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2010 (Jun 29, 2010) pp. 318–321
The paper provides an overview of the design of a technology supported learning framework for work-based learners at undergraduate level. It provides details of the technology and tools used by the TELSTAR project to deliver flexible work-based...
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Telling E-Stories
Beverly Leeds
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2009 (Jun 22, 2009) pp. 1784–1793
Using research undertaken for the implementation of a professional development module, the paper examines the use of e-stories as a vehicle for enhancing employability. It argues that e-stories should form a basis for learning how to explore...
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TAG – The Alternative Guide to UCLan: Creating realistic expectations of higher education
Lucy Warman; Beverly Leeds
Global Learn 2010 (May 17, 2010) pp. 510–516
The paper outlines the University of Lancashire’s (UCLAN) offering of The Alternative Guide (TAG) to university life at UCLAN, which aims to provide an opportunity for potential students to access peers’ experiences of Higher Education, to give them ...
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The Alternative Guide to UCLan: Creating realistic expectations of higher education
Lucy Warman; Beverly Leeds; John O'Donoghue
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2009 (Oct 26, 2009) pp. 1458–1462
The session argues that information provided by UK universities to potential students is designed to highlight the positive aspects of the university to entice students into applying rather than a realistic view of university life. The literature...