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South West College developed an online course for staff and learners to raise awareness of e-safety.
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Tony McConnell and Kerry-Jo Chesters- South West College Noel McDaid- JISC
South West College is a multi campus college in Northern Ireland with 14,000 students and 500+ staff
The senior management of the college felt it was important that awareness of the dangers of the use of electronic communications be heightened among staff and students.
Kerry-Jo and myself, as members of the Virtual Services Team, were given the task of researching the topic and coming up with a method of assessing that staff and students had an acceptable level of awareness.
Our first approach to the task was to research: The extent of the dangers involved
Any solutions that were already available
We soon discovered that there are a vast array of areas to look at(This was going to become our biggest problem)
No suitable solution to approaching the topic was available
In February we were directed to Noel McDaid from RSCni
Noel had a long term goal to create a similar object for the national RSC body
We met with Noel and discussed what we wanted to achieve and mulled over some ideas as to how we might approach the topic
Shortly after our initial meeting we agreed a range of topics that we would each research
The research proved to be a laborious process. There is so much material available from a range of sources. Some good…..some not so good!
We had to be ruthless on what we decided to keep and on what to reject
We all had one clear objective- the object could not be overlong. In order for it to be effective it had to get its message across and assess the users as economically as possible
The object would be a Web based resource. Good accessibility
It provides Self contained learning
Loading it onto a VLE made it trackable and SCORM compliant
We were able to build in multimedia learning
It provides a stable platform for assessment and instant feedback
The temptation to launch straight into content was a mistake. We got bogged down by the sheer weight of the available material
Much of the content overlapped between topics.
An initial plan and storyboard would have allowed us to be more specific
It was very difficult to know where to end each topic as there was so much material
A well constructed storyboard would also have improved the flow of the object. Initial versions lacked a proper narrative
We brought in a fresh pair of eyes. Bernard Aghedo, RSC London. He agreed to review our progress so far.
On the basis of Bernard's review we went back to the drawing board. After many revisions and lots of content we completely restructured the object to make it flow better
The following is our finished learning object
Signposting
We ran a pilot programme over late September to mid October
A few technical issues emerged that were solved
Participants were surveyed after completion of the object.
We had an overwhelmingly positive response
Version 1 of the object is now complete
The students will complete it during tutorial classes
It is hoped that we will have time to refine and update in 2014
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