Thursday, June 30
1:30 PM-2:00 PM
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Eroding time and space dimensions: using multi-media to enable non- traditional student participation at an inner-city University in the UK

Full Paper: Conceptual & Empirical Study ID: 12610
  1. Caroline Dobson
    London Metropolitan University

Abstract: This paper explores the new reality of study in the United Kingdom where students are combining very nearly full time work with study, and incurring debt with the introduction of tuition fees. Being present “on campus” for all of their time is not the reality for students at an inner city University campus. The project (http://learning.unl.ac.uk/bssmquickstart) was designed using interactive multi-media combined with classroom learning with the aim of lessening the impact of the start of year uncertainties for new undergraduate students. These students found the environment alienating, impersonal and unsupportive. The paper examines the rational for selecting multi-media to engage students from diverse backgrounds, many of whom enrol later than induction week. Further, the paper evaluates the contribution made to student retention by involving the students in academic life from their first classroom experience. This approach follows the work of Oliver & Conole (1998) who comment that few studies of online learning have been able to demonstrate the kinds of advantages promised.

Presider: Klaus-Dieter Rossade, The Open University

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