Monday, 5 March 2007

what students expect

this was a group activity, I will put the file up later of the activity itself, and they were asked about what students wanted from induction and first contact. Answers included:

personalised support
flexibility of elearning (backed up by f2f), this was mentioned by all of the groups, not in a "clinging on to the human side of things..." but not far off
quick turnaround of assessment
interactive information about the city and the university
a key to all the anachronisms that we use
LTA - how flexible is everything?
technology can help in every way possible, with a significant look

The case studies used in this session might be good to do in the LTI

4 comments:

Angie Donoghue said...

Hopefully we don't use too many anachronisms.

Brian said...

Is it supposed to be acronyms or abbreviations? Isn't an anachronism like in a film when a car appears during Roman times?

I think we are likely to use acronyms with staff more than students, though we may be using words that are not clearly understood.

Susannah said...

Yes, I'd like to see the case studies. Might help us to stop talking about neo-millenial learners all the time if we focus on 'real' students.

Paul Helm said...

it was definitely anachronisms, in a student admin sense. the session was RAF, remarkably acronym free