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Developing technology-enhanced work-focussed learning - a pattern language approach

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posted on 2023-07-26, 12:39 authored by Stephen Powell, Richard Millwood, Ian Tindal
This paper identifies issues in developing a three-year duration, work-focussed undergraduate degree programme with a model of inquiry-based learning supported through online communities of inquiry. On the course, students examine their current work-practice to identify issues and then plan, implement and evaluate an improvement strategy. Negotiated learning activities and facilitated networking environmentsare key to providing students with a highly personalised and relevant learning experience. Students were surveyed and interviewed through questionnaire, telephone and face-to-face meeting. Staff were asked to produce accounts identifying major issues within their particular role, describing and evaluating steps taken to mitigate them. In both cases, transcripts were examined using interpretive phenomenological analysis and this grounded approach was used to identify key issues. The findings show that challenges for the improvement of the learning experience included a range of issues unified by concerns regarding diversity of approach and complexity. It is proposed that this was partly due to knowledge held tacitly but unarticulated. To improve practice, a Pattern Language approach is proposed. In order to articulate values and ideas, a Pattern Language category of Online Community of Inquiry is outlined. These patterns are framed as instructions to inform an approach to new working practices, technologies and systems local to the context in which they were found. It is suggested that this approach helps teaching staff, developers, administrators, and students working together to understand and overcome problems in their own contexts, by adapting these and other patterns.

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Page range

84-105

ISSN

1613-0073

Publisher

CEUR-WS

Place of publication

Online

Conference proceeding

Proceedings of Special Track on Technology Support for Self-Organized Learners (TSSOL 2008)

Name of event

Special Track on Technology Support for Self-Organized Learners (TSSOL 2008), EduMedia Conference 2008

Location

Salzburg, Austria

Event start date

2008-05-26

Event finish date

2008-05-26

Language

  • other

Legacy posted date

2011-05-10

Legacy Faculty/School/Department

ARCHIVED Faculty of Health, Social Care & Education (until September 2018)

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