e-Learning/Online Learning Journals

I have had had difficulty finding an up-to-date list of e-Learning/Online learning Journals, so I decided to do one myself. The following list I have compiled with the help of University of Edinburgh’s MSC in E-learning Site http://www.education.ed.ac.uk/on-line_campus/e-learning/library.html - where I had difficulty with the links because of the security certificate and Ben Betts’ Is Stoalty Different Blog, Top 50 Education and Technology Journals http://www.ht2.co.uk/ben/?p=367, I, also, added a few assessment journals. In the list as well as technology in learning and teaching journals you will find some general education titles. I have included links to the journals and where possible given details of the alerting services, although I am biased here as I am a big fan of RSS.

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Academy of Management and Learning Education
http://aom.pace.edu/amle/
Publishes theoretical models and reviews, qualitative and quantitative research, critique, exchanges, and retrospectives on any substantive topic that is conceived with, and draws implications for, how managers learn and the educational process and context.

Active Learning in Higher Education
http://alh.sagepub.com/
Publication for all those who teach and support learning in higher education and those who undertake or use research into effective learning, teaching and assessment in universities and colleges.
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AJET: Australian Journal of Educational Technology
http://www.ascilite.org.au/ajet/ajet.html
Provides articles in educational technology, information and communications technologies for education, online and e-learning, educational design, multimedia, computer assisted learning, and related areas.  

American Educational Research Journal
http://aer.sagepub.com/
Publishes original empirical and theoretical studies and analyses in education that constitute significant contributions to the understanding and/or improvement of educational processes and outcomes.
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Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/02602938.asp
Publishes papers and reports on all aspects of assessment and evaluation within higher education. Its purpose is to advance understanding of assessment and evaluation practices and processes, particularly the contribution that these make to student learning and to course, staff and institutional development.
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Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/0969594X.asp
provides a focus for scholarly output in the field of assessment. The journal is explicitly international in focus and encourages contributions from a wide range of assessment systems and cultures.
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Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education
hhttp://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/02602938.asp
Its purpose is to advance understanding of assessment and evaluation practices and processes, particularly the contribution that these make to student learning and to course, staff and institutional development.
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Association for Learning Technology Publications
A wide range of publications for its members and the wider learning technology community.
http://www.alt.ac.uk/publications

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Behaviour and Information Technology
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/tf/0144929X.htm
Focuses on the human aspects of information technology. Information technology extends beyond the internet and World Wide Web, and powers telecommunications (both mobile and fixed), office and industrial systems, consumer products and entertainment.
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British Educational Research Journal
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/carfax/01411926.html
Publishes articles of interest to researchers in education and has rapidly become a major focal point for the publication of educational research from throughout the world.
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British Journal of Educational Technology
http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0007-1013
Provides readers with coverage of developments in educational technology world-wide. BJET is a primary source for academics and professionals in the expanding fields of education, training and information technology.

British Journal of Sociology of Education
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/bjse
The aim of the journal is to publish high quality original, theoretically informed analyses of the relationship between education and society. The Journal has an outstanding record of addressing major global debates about the social significance and impact of educational policy, provision, processes and practice in many countries around the world.
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Cambridge Journal of Education
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/carfax/0305764X.html
Publishes original refereed articles on all aspects of education with a particular emphasis on work that contributes to shared understanding among academic researchers, theorists, practising teachers, policy-makers and educational administrators.
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Campus Wide Information Systems
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/products/journals/journals.htm?id=cwis
Coverage, includes innovations in teaching and learning with technology, new technologies, IT implementation and support, planning and administration
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Computers and Education
http://www.journals.elsevier.com/computers-and-education/
Technically-based, interdisciplinary forum for communication in the use of all forms of computing.


Contemporary Educational Technology
http://cedtech.net/description.asp
Focusing on theory, research, and development in the field of educational technology.


Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking
http://www.liebertpub.com/products/product.aspx?pid=10
Publication for understanding the social and psychological impact of today’s social networking practices.
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Distance Education
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/CDIE
Peer-reviewed journal of the Open and Distance Learning Association of Australia, Inc. It publishes research and scholarly material in the fields of open, distance and flexible education
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Education and Information Technologies Journal
http://www.springer.com/computer/general+issues/journal/10639
Covers the complex relationships between information and communication technologies and education.
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Educational Assessment
http://www.tandfonline.com/action/aboutThisJournal?show=aimsScope&journalCode=heda20
Publishes original research and scholarship on the assessment of individuals, groups, and programs in educational settings. It includes theory, methodological approaches and empirical research in the appraisal of the learning and achievement of students and teachers, young children and adults, and novices and experts.
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Educational Research
http://edr.sagepub.com/
Articles that are of general significance to the education research community and that come from a wide range of areas of education research and related disciplines.
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Educational Research Review
Aimed at researchers and various agencies interested to review studies in education and instruction at any level.
http://www.journals.elsevier.com/educational-research-review/

Educational Technology Research and Development
Scholarly journal for the field focusing entirely on research and development in educational technology.
http://www.springer.com/education+%26+language/learning+%26+instruction/journal/11423
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EDUCAUSE: Review
http://www.educause.edu/er/about
Takes a broad look at current developments and trends in information technology, how they may affect the college/university as an institution, and what these mean for higher education and society.
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Harvard Educational Review
http://www.hepg.org/main/her/Index.html
Accepts contributions from researchers, scholars, policymakers, practitioners, teachers, students, and informed observers in education and related fields.
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Higher Education International Journa; of Higher Education
http://www.springer.com/education+%26+language/higher+education/journal/10734
Publishes authoritative overview articles, comparative studies and analyses of particular problems or issues.
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Higher Education Quarterly
http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0951-5224
Publishes articles concerned with policy, strategic management and ideas in higher education.

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IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies
http://www.computer.org/portal/web/tlt
Covers research on such topics as Innovative online learning systems, Intelligent tutors, Educational software applications and games, and Simulation systems for education and training.
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IJCsCL: International Journal of Computer Supported Collaborative Learning
http://ijcscl.org/
Reflects the interests of the international CSCL community.

Innovate: A Journal of Online Education
http://www.academiccommons.org/library/innovate-a-journal-of-online-education
Focuses on the creative use of information technology (IT) to enhance educational processes in academic.

Innovations in Education & Teaching International
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/14703297.asp
The journal of the Staff and Educational Development Association (SEDA) www.seda.ac.uk. As such, contributions to the Journal should reflect SEDA's aim to promote innovation and good practice in higher education through staff and educational development and subject-related practices.
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Innovative Higher Education
http://www.springer.com/education+%26+language/higher+education/journal/10755
Presents fresh ideas in higher education in a straightforward and readable fashion. The journal features descriptions and evaluations of current innovations and provocative new ideas with relevance for action beyond the immediate context in higher education.
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Interactive Learning Environments
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/10494820.asp
Articles on all aspects of the design and use of interactive learning environments in the broadest sense, encompassing environments that support individual learners through to environments that support collaboration amongst groups of learners or co-workers
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International Journal of Educational Development
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/719/authorinstructions
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International Journal of Web Based Communities
http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalCODE=ijwbc
Offers research outcomes and state-of-the-art recommendations to practitioners - communication managers, public information service officers, webmasters and those responsible for online communities and social media policies.
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International Review of Research into Open and Distance Learning
http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl
Advances research, theory and practice into open and distance learning.
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The Internet and Higher Education
http://www.journals.elsevier.com/the-internet-and-higher-education/
Journal devoted to addressing contemporary issues and future developments related to online learning, teaching, and administration on the Internet in post-secondary settings.

Internet Research
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/products/journals/journals.htm?id=intr
An international, refereed journal that aims to describe, assess and foster understanding of the role of wide-area, multi-purpose computer networks such as the Internet.
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Instructional Science
http://www.springer.com/education+%26+language/learning+%26+instruction/journal/11251
Interdisciplinary refereed scholarly journal aimed at promoting a deeper understanding of the nature, theory and practice of the instructional process and of the learning to which it gives rise.
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JALN: Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks
http://sloanconsortium.org/publications/jaln_main
Describes original work in asynchronous learning networks (ALN), including experimental results. Our mission is to provide practitioners in online education with knowledge about the very best research in online learning.

JIME: Journal of Interactive Media in Education
http://www-jime.open.ac.uk/jime
To foster a multidisciplinary and intellectually rigorous debate on the theoretical and practical aspects of interactive media in education.
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JIOL: Journal of Interactive Online Learning
http://www.ncolr.org/
Focuses on providing a venue for manuscripts, critical essays, and reviews that encompass disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives in regards to issues related to higher-level learning outcomes.
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JOLT: Journal of Online Learning and Teaching
http://jolt.merlot.org/
Addresses the scholarly use of multimedia resources in online education

Journal of Computer Assisted Learning
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1365-2729/homepage/ProductInformation.html
An international peer-reviewed journal which covers the whole range of uses of information and communication technology to support learning and knowledge exchange.
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Journal of Computer Mediated-Communication
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1083-6101
Its focus is social science research on computer-mediated communication via the Internet, the World Wide Web, and wireless technologies.
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Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia (JEMH)
http://www.aace.org/pubs/jemh/
Designed to provide a multi-disciplinary forum to present and discuss research, development and applications of multimedia and hypermedia in education.

Journal of Education Technology and Society
http://www.ifets.info/
Focuses on issues affecting the developers of educational systems and educators who implement and manage such systems.

Journal of Higher Education
http://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/review_of_higher_education/
Provides a forum for discussion of varied issues affecting higher education.

Journal of Interactive Learning Research
http://www.aace.org/pubs/jilr/
Papers related to the underlying theory, design, implementation, effectiveness, and impact on education and training of the following interactive learning environments.
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Journal of Learning Sciences
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/hlns20/current
Provides a multidisciplinary forum for the presentation and discussion of research on education and learning. Emphasis is placed on important ideas that can change our understanding of learning as well as the practice of education.
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Journal of Management Education
http://jme.sagepub.com/
Welcomes contributions from all management educators who seek to reflect on their professional practice and to engage readers in an exploration of what or how to teach in order for students to learn and practice effective management.
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Journal of Psychological Research into Cyber Space
http://www.cyberpsychology.eu/index.php

JRT: Journal of Research in Education
http://www.iste.org/learn/publications/journals/jrte-old.aspx
Report on original research, system or project descriptions and evaluations, syntheses of the literature, assessments of the state of the art, and theoretical or conceptual positions that relate to instructional uses of educational technology.

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Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy
http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/about.html
Open-access online journal exploring the intersections of rhetoric, technology, and pedagogy

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Learning and Intstruction
http://www.journals.elsevier.com/learning-and-instruction/
A platform for the publication of the most advanced scientific research in the areas of learning, development, instruction and teaching.

(The) Learning Organisation
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?issn=0969-6474
Aims to bring new ideas, debate issues, introduce innovative methods and offer practical case studies to practitioners, consultants, researchers and students worldwide.
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Learning, Media and Technology
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/cjem
An international, peer-reviewed journal that aims to stimulate debate on the interaction of innovations in learning and educational theory, practices, media and educational technologies
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Open Learning: Journal of Open, Distance and e-Learning
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/authors/coplauth.asp
Publishes theoretical and evidence-based scholarly articles reflecting developments in open, distance and e-learning, shorter practical articles describing the implementation of forms of open, flexible and distance learning likely to interest our international readership and book reviews
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Pedagogy, Culture and Society
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/14681366.asp
Seeks to provide an international forum for pedagogy discussion and debate.
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Research in Higher Education
http://www.springer.com/education+%26+language/higher+education/journal/11162
Enhances our understanding of educational institutions, helps faculty and administrators in making more informed decisions about current or future operations and in improving efficiency and effectiveness
Covers such topics as curriculum and instruction; recruitment and admissions; and retention, attrition, and transfer.
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Research in Learning Journal: Journal for the Association of Learning Technology
http://www.researchinlearningtechnology.net/index.php/rlt
Aims to raise the profile of research in learning technology, encouraging research that informs good practice and contributes to the development of policy.

Review of Educational Research
http://rer.sagepub.com/
Publishes critical, integrative reviews of research literature bearing on education, including conceptualizations, interpretations, and syntheses of literature and scholarly work in a field broadly relevant to education and educational research.
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The Review of Higher Education
http://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/review_of_higher_education/
Provides a forum for discussion of varied issues affecting higher education.

Review of Research in Education
http://rre.sagepub.com/
An annual overview and descriptive analysis of selected topics of relevant research literature through critical and synthesizing essays.
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Studies in Higher Education
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/carfax/03075079.html
Research-based empirical, reflective or synoptic articles dealing with higher education, approached from any perspective or discipline

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Teaching in Higher Education
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/13562517.asp
addresses the roles of teaching, learning and the curriculum in higher education in order to explore and clarify the intellectual challenges which they present.
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Technology in Society
http://www.journals.elsevier.com/technology-in-society/
Devoted to a range of interdisciplinary fields most simply identified by the terms: technology assessment, science, technology and society; management of technology; technology and policy; the economics of technology; technology transfer, appropriate technology and economic development; ethical and value implications of science and technology; science and public policy; and technology forecasting.
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Technology Pedagogy and Education
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/1475939X.asp
Supports educators in the integration of information and communications technology in teaching and learning.
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Theory and Research in Education
http://www.sagepub.com/journals/Journal201652
Provides a forum for rigorous, interdisciplinary discussion of pressing normative and theoretical issues concerning education.
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New Year's Trends

How many of us bloggers have started the New Year with the resolution I must blog more often....hands-up ME for one. I noticed my last blog was in November, although I had a chest infection which debilitated me somewhat in December I should try harder, I should try harder. So here I am at the end of the 1st working week in January and multi-tasking reading Mashable's 5 trends to watch in 2012 which says:

Social/Digital Exhaustion

In general, more and more people seem to be reevaluating their social and digital existence. Even the SOPA battle is revealing some unforeseen schisms. The Stop Online Piracy Act is a bad idea, not because piracy is good, but because of the plan for enforcement is wrong and dangerous. That said, no one who creates content can deny that the digital revolution hasn’t forced them to rethink how they create, sell and distribute content. There are no easy answers here and 2012 will be a year of introspection; one where we possibly rewrite the rules of content, copyrights and social interactions.


...whilst ploughing through the NME's best albums for 2011 on Grooveshark. This is after spending most of Christmas reading and not doing much techno stuff apart from Twitter, a bit of surfing and the very occasion Facebook commentary and not really missing it,   Now  I am wondering whether I am suffering from Social/Digital Exhaustion. Also, the earpiece has gone again on my Sony Ericsson w595, which is no way near a smart phone but I can get music onto it at half the speed on my nano - it synchs in the way I want - it's ok for Twitter and Facebook and a bit of surfing - I also, like my little speakers that I can use in the bathroom and hotel rooms and I am really trying to resist being pulled into the smartphone debate, and contributing it landfill. So it looks like another £20 replacement earpiece this weekend until I drop it again. 


But when I see the synergy between the NME site and Grooveshark I suddenly feel a bit rejuvinated. My research into various smartphones just in case I needed one has made me a little bit smarter. I still think RSS feeds are brilliant way to navigate the mass of resources out there and my iGoogle page is the start and end of most things. Google docs is still an excellent way to collaboratively author. I know there is a big debate about the control of Google but as a pragmatic eLearning practitioner I have seen little that competes and integrates, I, also notice it is number 3 on the C4PLT Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies, after Twitter and YouTube. The Best of Breed for Learning 2011 is particularly interesting,  for me my etoolkit components featured, Blogger, Google docs, Google Sites, iTunes, Slideshare, Gmail, Skype, Tweetdeck, Evernote, Drop Box and Google Reader but my W595 did not feature and no Captivate. Seeing Firefox dropping off the 100 list seems to reflect the recent trend in Chrome, although, I was also surprised not to see Google Scholar and not to see Wimba Create

So what will I be trending this year for me mainly practice driven - 5 at the moment I may come back it:

1. OERs - for particular easier navigation
2. eLearnesque - must do more regular updates 
3. eLearning Webinars - to encourage staff engagement 
4. Video case studies - to share best practice 
5. CMALT portfolio completion 

....and my secret number 6 Scandinavian electronic music  

Short Online Taster Courses

Last week I participated in a Learning Tree ITL online taster course "Preparing for an ITIL v3 Implementation". I participated in this for two reasons the first was to see if there were any aspects of the ITL methodology that I could implement in our team's work, the second was to experience the online delivery. With respect to the implementation of ITL because there are correlations with the project management approach that we already apply which is a very simplified Prince 2 and the fact that we are currently trying articulate what services we provide, the course succeeded in reassuring me that we had already or are attempting to, integrated some of the ITL processes and considerations such as:

• providing clarity with respect to what are planning to deliver
• defining the service we are providing 
• asking the question whether we are doing what we said we were going to do
• providing milestones
• episodically reassessing our objectives and where we want to be 
• establishing metrics for measuring our service
• getting feedback on what we do

With respect to the eLearning participant experience. Firstly, as this was a taster I had managed my expectations with respect to what could be achieved in a couple of hours. The course was delivered using Adobe Connect, which I had used before and the interface and the set-up wizards are straight forward to use. Glitches with sound aka feedback were cleared up pretty quickly sound well done on that side. On my netbook I could control the presentation of the slides to taking over the full window but not the whole presentation interface was very small and there did not appear to be a facility to stretch or take over the full screen, so the participants pane was small and the chat box etc. With respect to hearing me, when I experienced a problem and used my microphone there did not appear to be any problems with audio on their side.. 

On the negative side I think there should have been more questions posed at points through out the presentation like JISC do, this made the taster a little transmissional. Putting this point to one side it is quite nice to have the opportunity to experience something before you decide to sign-up, and after attending some recent JISC webinars I think the webinar format is something that we could consider integrating into the range of services we offer. 

  

Research Methods Activity Design

This post relates to the previous one. As a result of running an activity workshop it has also led me to think that it would be useful to have a set of generic activity designs within our kit that we could refer to. This observation, also, aligns with our findings with respect activity design in research methods that I referred to a couple of months. Our team investigations found that we did not need to do a specific research methods version of an activity design workshop, that it would be useful to have a list of links for research methods resources (- maybe a Diigo group?) and refer colleagues to the generic activity designs that we develop, we could possibly put these in our learning repository. 

Activity Design

Within our team we have developed a workshop to help colleagues with designing online activities.  The approach that we take is that colleagues choose a face-to-face activity and create a plan for it noting

• Learning outcomes 
• Student tasks
• Tutor task
• Resources and tools

Then they consider how they would do this online using a plan with the same variables as above. And that is the workshop. We have very few slides it is mainly facilitated groupwork. However, we have found that the best way to facilitate this is to have somebody from my team sitting with the group providing advice on various aspects and to situate the workshop in programme or module planning to ensure authenticity, which really as a service that we offer.

Although it is early days we have found that activities can be generic and the subject content, resources, learning outcomes are the discipline specific components, the generic aspects means that we can introduce an open approach to activity design which influences the facilitation of the workshop. Facilitation involves getting academic colleagues to talk through what would be feasible taking into account student engagement, tool use (not too many, inducting students into use) and issues of parity with f2f not equivalence.  

ALTC 2011 - Resources

This is an overview of resources that were shared during ALTC-2011

• Enable Project Staffordshire University aims to embed coordination between projects within the university, to enable the development of new processes that will allow curriculum development to become more flexible and responsive.
• Cascade Project aimed to use technology to enable the University of Oxford Department for Continuing Education to respond better to the challenges created by the government’s ELQ policy by enabling the Department to undertake its activities more efficiently, develop new, or repurpose existing, activities and augment the services currently offered to students.
• Google New Assessment Tool 
• VERiFy Project  aims to provide an innovative approach to the provision of feedback to learners in video form, accessed through personal computers and mobile telecommunications devices, encouraging learners to engage in a conversational framework by responding to feedback using video.  
• HELF Esubmission Survey

ATLC 2011 - Part 2 Assessment

Eassessment, specifically esubmission and emarking appeared to be hot topics at the ALT conference this year, which was really useful for me as we are focusing on this at our institution. 

The following papers stood out for me at the conference.

Visualising the holistic assessment experience – The use of Google tools to support effective design. Mark Kerrigan, Rita Headington, Simon Walker

This presentation demonstrated a development using google forms that tracked the assessment diet landscape, and illustrated assessment bloating, either too many assessments at the same time or too much of the same assessment. The reports provided

"displays assessment diet, landscape and importantly an experiential timeline. The timeline, based on a Google Motion Chart, interactively displays assessment periods, type and weighting concurrently for each course within a programme. Staff are then able to interact with the assessment parts of their programmes and see graphically, in real-time, the consequences of their design decisions. By linking this process to the face-to-face curriculum design workshops, staff are better informed about their programme’s design, thus permitting the evidential-based development of a supportive holistic curriculum that is aligned to both the staff and student experience and good assessment practice." (Kerrigan et. al 2011)



Managing Change in the Development of Sustainable Online Assessment PracticesAnn Liggett, Christopher Cramphorn

I should give this presentation a shout as it was from colleagues at NTU, and they did us proud. It provided an excellent overview with respect to the issues identified during piloting e-submission and e-marking. It clearly identified the processes and the roles and responsibilities of colleagues within the processes, as well as, providing an overview of the evaluation process. Again this presentation emphasised the importance of admin staff in the process. It, also, with respect to emarking, stated that the amount of time it takes to mark reduces with practice. The majority of students were in favour of esubmission, because it meant they did not have to queue, regarding e-marking they found the comments easier to understand/read than written comments. The presentation, also, noted that external examiners need to training in e-marking and that anonymising papers still posed a challenge.

Using Asynchronous Video and Mobile Technologies to Enhance Learner Engagement with Formative FeedbackJames McDowell

This presentation provided an overview of the project VERiFy which aimed to go beyond transmissional approaches to assessment feedback by introducing a conversational framework and using video "feedback loop system"
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'has enabled the asynchronous exchange of video-feedback, facilitating a feed-forward conversation between learners and tutors around work-in-progress; a series of case-studies explores the learner and tutor experience of the intervention.' (McDowell 2011)


The project has also produced a repository of feedback objects, which provides another avenue for reusable objects. I was wondering in the next round of OER if any projects will focus on open assessment objects.


eSubmission – UK policies, practice and supportBarbara Newland, Lindsey Martin, Andy Ramsden

This presentation provided an overview of the Heads of Elearning eSubmission survey. It found the following

'Only 21% of institutions have an institution-wide policy on eSubmission with 18% have separate regulations and 24% included in existing regulations. The most common technologies used are Turnitin integrated within the VLE or the institutional VLE rather than “home-grown” technologies. Academic attitudes to eSubmission are more positive than those for eMarking and eFeedback. The variety of staff development includes 82% face to face and 82% how-to-guides with 58% providing online video/screencasts. Examples of good practice were identified as well as a range of issues...Effective eSubmission has the potential to increase efficiency in organisations by improving their business processes and eFeedback may enhance learning. The survey outcomes, sample guidelines and examples of good practice can inform institutional adoption and changes in policy and practice. (Newland et. al 2011)'


It was interesting to see that the majority of institutions surveyed did not have an institutional policy for e-submission.


Squaring the Triangle: Institutional Compliance, Academic Freedom and the Student VoiceAlice Bird



This presentation discussed students increasing involvement of students in policy at Liverpool John Moores University. LJMU have, also, piloted e-submission and have found that you cannot ignore marking and feedback when looking at esubmission. The presentation, stated that one challenge is that although institutions want e-submission not enough resources are being put into it.