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Presenters: Colin Beer, Ken Clark, David Jones (CQUniversity)
Session Plan: The first 25 minutes of the presentation will be the first run of a presentation at the ASCILITE'09 conference (http://www.ascilite.org.au/conferences/auckland09/).
The remaining time will involve discussion with participants about how the project might help them in their teaching and research.
The full ASCILITE paper is available online (http://tr.im/FD7a)
Learning management systems have become almost ubiquitous as a technical solution to e-learning within universities. Extant literature illustrates that LMS system logs, along with other IT systems data, can be used to inform decision-making. It also suggests that very few institutions are using this data to inform their decisions. The indicators project aims to build on and extend previous work in this area to provide services that can inform the decision-making of teaching staff, management, support staff and students. Through an initial set of three questions the paper offers support for some existing critical success factors, identifies potential limitations of others, generates some new insights from a longitudinal comparison of feature adoption of two different LMS within the one institution, and identifies a number of insights and ideas for future work.
More details on the presentation can be found here http://tr.im/FvRQ
Colin Beer is a member of CQUniversity's Curriculum Design unit. He is currently working as a Curriculum Designer with a specific interesting in eLearning and eLearning technologies.
Ken Clark is an academic interested in the way that academics use technology, and LMS, to create meaningful learning pathways for their students.
David Jones is a long term member of CQUniversity's academic staff. In the last year he has been working as the university's sole "eLearning and Innovation Specialist". More details on the position and its purpose can be found here http://davidtjones.wordpress.com/elearning-and-innovation/
Date of Presentation
30 November 2009