1. Student Engagement
Student Engagement • Background information: Why use
A WebLearn and RLOs showcase WebLearn?
• Examples of engaging students with
Production Team:
Debbie Holley – RLO CETL, LMBS WebLearn (including RLOs)
Amanda Wilson Kennard – TLTC
Mimi Weiss – TLTC
Carl Smith – CETL Developer
• Results
Context of London Met
Background Information: Why use • Widening participation
WebLearn? university
• Non-standard entry
students
• Inner city location
• Commuter students
London Metropolitan University
The course Module Requirements
• International Purchasing • Required by professional body
• Part-time professional students • Exam
• Full-time degree students • Coursework
• Professional body accreditation
• Continuous assessment
• Additional weekly engagement
• Monitoring progress – self and lecturer
• Confidence building
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2. Problems to solve Constraints
• Limited opportunity for peer to peer • Must work with large groups of
communication students
• Not enough student practice and • Must be manageable for the
retention with module material students
• Must not increase the marking load
Solutions for engaging the •Problem to solve
•Lack of peer-to-peer communication
students with WebLearn?
•WebLearn Solution
•Discussion tool in WebLearn
Discussion Tool How can you do this?
• Asynchronous weekly tasks • You can easily create discussions yourself
• Responses to tutor ‘starter’ post and another
students post
in WebLearn.
• Benefit
• Please come to a TLTC training session
• Students communicate with peers outside of the
classroom entitled:
• Creating Online Discussions and
Chats
• http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/tltc/
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3. Solution 1: Self marking quizzes
•Problem to solve
• Text based quizzes
•Lack of student practice and material • Questions based on student’s research
retention
• Multiple Choice
•WebLearn Solutions • Mark for attempt (language problem concern
•Solution1: Self marking quizzes of some students)
•Solution 2: Reusable learning objects
• These are automatically graded
• Benefit
• Students engage with the material
• Students get automatic feedback and grades
Solution 2:
How can I do this? Reusable Learning Object (RLO)
• You can easily create quizzes, self-tests • What is a RLO?
• Ready made online tutorial
or surveys yourself in WebLearn. • Combining: Audio, Video, Text, Images etc…
• Self-paced online learning 24/7
• Each focusing on one clear learning goal
• Please come to a TLTC training session • Free and easy to use and distribute
entitled: • Option for automatic grading
• Building Online Quizzes, Surveys • http://www.rlo-cetl.ac.uk
and Self Tests
• http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/tltc/ • Benefit
• Enables students to engage with the material and
retain information
• Students can get automatic grades
RLO Activities Reusable Learning Objects
• Can contain a variety of activities:
• Example of RLO learning object as a weekly task
• Case studies
• Shopping basket price comparison of fair-trade goods
• Quizzes
• Games
• Puzzles
• Tutorials
• These interactive resources can include:
• Text
• Images
• Audio and video
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4. Example of a game developed by TLTC Example of a game developed by TLTC
INCOCHALLENGE Problem based learning multi-media
quiz Debbie Holley & Richard Haynes.
Example of a game developed by TLTC
How can I get a RLO?
• A fun element to
1. Use a ready made RLO from the
assessment website
• The boat sails on if • http://www.rlo-cetl.ac.uk
they get the
scenario correct
• Hints and tips if a 2. Request a custom made RLO
wrong answer • http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/tltc
• Look at the TLTC showcase for
Students find out if their journey is successful…. ideas or bring your own ideas to
the approachable TLTC developers.
Use a pre-made RLOs RLO Subjects
• London Metropolitan University with its partners, the
University of Cambridge and University of Nottingham
have launched • Study Skills
• Maths
• The Centre for Excellence in Teaching in Learning
(CETL) who specialise in Reusable Learning Objects • Business
(RLO).
• CETL have created many pre-made RLOs that are free and
easy to add to your WebLearn modules.
• www.rlo-cetl.ac.uk
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5. RLO Subjects Student Opinions
• Marketing
• Discussions
• “I found the online tasks great - to me it did
• Science not feel like I was completing work but more of
• Languages a fun activity among friends.”
• Quizzes
• “So far, it is the most fun assessment I’ve done
☺ like those online quizzes a lot”
• “I do like the idea of weekly quizzes. I think that
this is a good re-cap for the lecture and helps
memorise facts. “
Adding it to WebLearn Getting your own RLO
• The Multimedia Developers at TLTC
• Adding a ready made RLO to
can create bespoke RLOs for you.
WebLearn
• How?
• You think of an idea for a resource
• Copy and paste the link into a
• Discuss your ideas with a multimedia
WebLearn link
developer at TLTC
• They create the resource for you for free
• Add a link to the resource in your module
• http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/tltc/
Student Opinions
• RLOs
Results • ‘I think the online marks were very useful
and I loved all different tasks’
• ‘I like the weekly task because it keeps me
engaged to the subject, so I believe I learn
more..’
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6. Overall Evaluation Useful Links
• Ready made RLO’s
• Students liked it • http://www.rlo-cetl.ac.uk
• Students got more involved in peer- • TLTC for Multimedia and WebLearn information
to-peer communication • http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/tltc/
• It encouraged engagement • Write Now CETL
• Some students wanted qualitative • http://www.writenow.ac.uk/
judgemental assessment – conflict • Learn Higher CETL
with aims • http://www.learnhigher.ac.uk/
• New arrangements of time and • Liaise with your subject centre for other resources
and ideas for funding
space of study
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