Online Teaching and Learning: A study of teacher education students' experiences
Authors: Ariana Donaghy, Clive McGee, Bill Ussher & Russell Yates
Published: April 2003
This study explores the way a group of university online students study, learn and organise their time. It also seeks to identify their support systems for learning, their use of course material and the effect of lecturer feedback.
Little research has been done about how online students plan their study, make use of course material or the type of support systems used by students for their learning as well as the effect of lecturer-student interaction and lecturer feedback upon student learning since an initial cohort began the Mixed Media Programme (MMP) in 1997.
This study will look at what students consider good interaction and feedback as well as identifying the reasons why some feedback is considered less effective.
The quality of course material is another question that students needed to be asked about, because there is little data on the subject, for example, the extent to which students read beyond the set readings, as all degree students are expected to do.