Lexdis - technology strategies for studying
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This document summarizes the LexDis website and its goals of being participatory, empowering, social, and casual while also building skills. It discusses how the website was originally created in 2009 to share learner experiences with e-learning and how it has evolved, including an external evaluation in 2016 that found 17% of users had disabilities. The document outlines feedback from 2016 users including suggestions to break up content into smaller sections, add date filtering and sharing options on social media. It concludes by thanking E.A. Draffan and listing some strategies for all students including MOOCs, flipped classrooms, alternate formats for media and assessments, and open educational resources.
Lexdis - technology strategies for studying
- 1. LexDis Technology strategies for studying http://www.lexdis.org.uk/
- 2. What LexDis can do for you! •Participatory •Empowering •Social •Casual •Skill building ... Managing Director Newman Consulting Outreach Director geekEquality.com iOS Lead Developer at Candyspace Media Professors Java Web Developer at Spandidos Publications
- 3. Original idea Learner experiences of e-learning
- 4. Back in 2009
- 5. Forward to 2012 with a recent entry!
- 6. Fast Forward to 2016 • Third year project as an external evaluation of Lexdis – 17% of those questioned had disabilities Strategies for disabled students alone 35% Strategies for all students 65% From you experience with Lexdis, what does it provide? Yes 41% No 59% Would you upload a suggestion? Yes 48% No 52% Now that you know about the website, will you visit and use the website in the future?
- 7. The future – New ideas • Keypoints learnt from the students of 2016 • Less text – break up each area of content • Date filter as well as strategies and difficulties • Provide instant access via images • Mail outs specific to requirements • Space for feedback on strategies • Push / Pull Facebook and Twitter. • Same approach for the guides and other resources • Amna’s wireframe for us to develop!
- 8. Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
- 9. Strategies for All • MOOCs / Blended Learning • Flipped Classrooms / BOYD • Altformats for complex media / interactions • Accessible Assessments • OERs Thank You E.A. Draffan
Editor's Notes
- #4: Student - This table has a link to a student webpage describing their course, issues and strategies as a summary – there will be 30 of these as individual case studies. Difficulty - specific to particular students, such as a written language difficulty – listing functional difficulties rather than named disabilities that tend to cover a wide range of difficulties. Problem - specific to the curriculum in the form of a requirement which may lead to different issues e.g. usual spell checkers fail to find course related vocabulary. Issues - Several may result from one type of problem e.g. spelling which may depend on the course studied so may be related to complex computer or medical terms or written language difficulties. Applications - These are software programs used on courses such as using Adobe Acrobat Reader for .PDFs or Microsoft Word. Course Activity - Mentioned by students and linked to issues. Those listed may be assignments, communication, presentations research. revision Guidelines - These are for the various groups working in H.E. Those listed may be Lecturers (incl.teaching fellows and learning support staff) Learning technologists (who implement and support the use of learning technologies such as VLEs across an institution) Support staff (those working in Student Support Services e.g. DLO's; assessors, librarians) Students Strategies - Discussed with students as a result of their problems linked to issues arising whilst taking their courses Technologies - These may be software or hardware items used to support strategies. 4a and 9a Web Links - These are items that are made up of useful websites or papers that are linked to applications, technologies and guidelines.