Share Paper: Eroding time and space dimensions: using multi-media to enable non- traditional student participation at an inner-city University in the UK

  1. Caroline Dobson, London Metropolitan University, United Kingdom
Thursday, June 30 1:30 PM-2:00 PM Salon Musset

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 ...