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eLearning Why Bother? Dr Max Jones University of Manchester

Challenges How to improve teaching and learning in large humanities courses with reduced contact hours? How to make seminars more effective? How to support Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs)?

VLEs - Strengths I Course Outline (& Skills Info) Easily Accessible Improve Access to Secondary Sources Harness Online Resources. Some online resources may only be used on secure Virtual Learning Environments (VLE) Direct Seminar Preparation of Students – Active Learning Provide Framework for GTAs Good for Career Progression

VLEs - Strengths II VLE Tools: Discussion Boards Quizzes Essay Submission & Feedback Plagiarism Checker “Wiki” Tool Podcasts Surveys

VLEs - Weaknesses Substantial initial investment of time Hidden workload maintaining VLE Reliance on technology beyond your control Perception that new technology is intended to replace contact with staff Humanities students become overly reliant on online resources, and don’t learn how to use library Rigid Framework? Staff Resistance

Project Revamp Level 2 Modern British History course – c.120-students. 1 lecture + 1 seminar per week. Students must complete a “Seminar Worksheet” before each seminar

Seminar Worksheet Single A4 Sheet with 4-6 questions. The questions direct students’ engagement with assigned primary and secondary sources. Students a copy of worksheet to GTA before each weekly seminar.

Seminar 6. The People’s War?: How does Rose explain the particular anxieties provoked by “good-time girls” in wartime Britain? 2.Why does Rose believe inter-racial sex provoked particular tensions? 3.Choose one example from the article, which you could use in an essay to illustrate Rose’s argument. 4.How could you use Fires Were Started to support or challenge Rose’s argument? 5.How is the period presented in the Labour Party manifesto? 6.How does the manifesto describe the Labour party’s attitude towards “freedom”?

Questionnaire Results ‘The material available on-line significantly enhanced my learning’ Mean score of 1.81 Highest score of 140 UG course units with over 30 students in

Online Survey 1 ‘I learned more in my weekly seminar, if I had completed a Seminar Worksheet’, 38 ‘Agree’ 7 ‘Mostly Agree’ 6 ‘Neither Agree nor Disagree’ 3 ‘Mostly Disagree’ 5 ‘Disagree’