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How we moved away from paper and embraced Moodle: creating an e-learning task for new students Sonya Lipczynska
Information Specialist (Dental Institute & Dept of Physiotherapy)
King’s College London
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This year, over 2000 new students attended Library Welcome sessions...
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Photo by James Cridland http://www.flickr.com/photos/18378655@N00/613445810
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Structure of a Library Welcome
Introduction & available resources
Practical task – navigating library resources
IT information
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Problems with paper task• Lack of time to go through the answers in class • Class sizes (between 30-60) often too big for
the leader to offer individual support for all• Students’ engagement with the task
sometimes waned – too much paper?
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Moodle arrives!
Photo by Nigel Howe http://www.flickr.com/photos/legin101/6700336625/sizes/z/in/photostream/
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Re-creating the documentI marked up the paper document using Wimba Create
and uploaded this to KEATS (Moodle)
Added quizzes
Provided guided information for right and wrong answers
Space to include detailed instructions on how to access and navigate around the resources
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Observations• Silence in the classroom – improvement in
student engagement with the task• Guided discovery via automated feedback –
either glossing a right answer or providing clues when a wrong answer was entered
• Classroom leader’s time could be more effectively spent
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Things that could be improved• Clarity – we realised that the phrasing of some
questions wasn’t clear• Emphasising instructions – we noted that some
students tend to skim read and therefore target the wrong information source
• Purpose – met with some initial anxiety that this task was a formal assessment. We needed to be clear about the nature of the task
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Conclusions from piloting the task• Overall, the initiative was a success
• We will roll this out next year with improvements
• This has encouraged us to create new e-learning tasks for other teaching, e.g. literature searching and referencing
