Developing undergraduate students’ understanding of historical enquiry

and research through flexible online learning and feedback.

What next at UoR and EHU?

The aim of the afternoon session is to examine briefly some emerging data. We hope to explore some practical inferences we might make from this

to inform the design of the next iteration.

To help us with this, if you have a smart phone, tablet or lap top, please visit the link below now, a voting site (no cost and no need to login in):

PollEv.com/ourpoll

We will open up a series of polls for voting as we go through the afternoon, all accessed from this link.

Ali Messer A.Messer@roehampton.ac.uk Alessandra Abbattista abbattia@roehampton.ac.uk

UoR Moodle site usage data

43 students accessed the site

5,113 visits between them

Most visited single item: research questions discussion forum

20 students responded to questionnaire (EHU students given very similar questionnaire)

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Contrast to be seen with EHU?

There was a digital task as the outcome for the module. Perhaps this encouraged students

to revisit content?

Poll everywhere (voting software) question

PollEv.com/ourpoll

Do you agree that the use of Mahara for the assessed task probably encouraged students

to re visit Moodle content?

Actions

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feedback start-complete

Forum actions

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Forum posting

The Old Bai-ley Online

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Old Bailey

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Email, info and other

Finding a topic

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Welcome to module

Source commentary

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Poll everywhere question:

PollEv.com/ourpoll

Do you agree usage data suggests that students find it useful to revisit discussion forums?

You might like to tweet any other ideas you have about WHY this might be the case!

Resources

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Responses to questionnaire

Mahara

I did not make a portfolio using Mahara

I did make a portfolio using Mahara but the Moodle site did not help.

I did make a portfolio using Mahara and the Moodle site did help.

I found it more useful to see how other students used Mahara than to

use the Moodle site for help.

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Discussion boards posting

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I looked at the discussion boards but I did not make posts

I looked at the discussion board and made posts

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Videos and resources

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How students used the site

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PollEv.com/ourpoll

Poll everywhere question

Do you agree the questionnaire responses suggest that the UoR discussion in the

NEXT iteration could be more interactive?

You might like to tweet any ideas you have about HOW this might be done...