Open AccessCourse developers as students: a designer perspective of the experience of learning online
Author(s) -
Iain McAlpine,
Tony Koppi,
Jan McLean,
Elaine Pearson
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
alt-j/alt-j. association for learning technology journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1741-1629
pISSN - 0968-7769
DOI - 10.1080/0968776042000216200
Subject(s) - perspective (graphical) , online learning , online course , focus group , focus (optics) , key (lock) , mode (computer interface) , computer science , mathematics education , psychology , multimedia , human–computer interaction , sociology , artificial intelligence , computer security , anthropology , optics , physics
Academic developers of online courses may not have experienced this mode of learning and teaching from the learner perspective. This article makes a comparison between suggestions for online course design from research literature and user perspectives from a focus group, responses to questions on the most and least effective aspects of online study and lasting impressions, and from reflective diaries kept by two of the authors while they were engaged in study from online courses. This direct evidence is used to highlight key issues in the literature from the viewpoint of the learner