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ERIC Number: EJ959257
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2011-Dec
Pages: 10
Abstractor: As Provided
Reference Count: 21
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-1479-7860
Evolution of E-Learning Projects: A Creative Experience?
Wakeford, Carol
Bioscience Education, v18 Article 1SE Dec 2011
e-Learning Projects involve the construction by final year students of e-learning resources in project work. Students are supported in a blended training course in which they acquire appropriate skills and critically review eresources of their peers This paper describes innovations in course design that have lead to the evolution of eresources from simple web sites into interactive multimedia learning resources, the best of which are used in the undergraduate curriculum. The latest incarnation of the course includes creative thinking activities to facilitate more imaginative learning designs. This work aimed to compare project scores of e-learning students with those students doing traditional laboratory-based projects, evaluate the pedagogic design of the training course, and explore the impact on students of creative thinking activities. Course evaluation was positive, and students appreciated the collaborative approach to learning enabled by the use of online and face-to-face interactions, and there was no significant difference between e-learning and other project scores. A preliminary evaluation of student creativity demonstrated no statistically significant increase in the creativity of students pre- and post-course, but these results were limited by a small sample size, which may in part be due to time and work pressures on students at the end of their final year. (Contains 2 figures and 5 tables.)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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