2018 | 2018-2015 (see under regional groups) | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | Small grants | Regional groups: Midlands, North-West, Scotland

A selection of resources based on our events and activities created between 2008-2019 on ELESIG’s Ning platform are archived here. There are lots of really useful resources to support learner experience research related to technology-enhanced learning. The events and associated resources are organised in reverse chronological order, including national/international ELESIG symposia and webinars held between 2008-2015. In 2015 we stopped running national symposia to focus on regional events organised by our local groups, these events are organised by region (only a s

2018

Three webinars: more information and links to recordings:

• November: Paul Prinsloo: Student consent in learning analytics: Finding a way out of the labyrinth
• March: Helen Beetham: Using the Jisc tracker to research students’ experiences of e-learning
• Liz Bennett: How do students respond to seeing data about themselves presented via a Learning Analytics Dashboard?

2015-2018

See under regional group activities: Midlands, NorthWest, Scotland

2014

• Winter Symposium: Digital Futures, 2 December 2014, Southampton Solent
  • Slides and resources, via blog post by Rhona Sharpe: event including the launch of ELESIG South group; keynote: Mark Brown, DCU, workshop entitled ‘Roadmap to the university of the digital future’ led by Hugh Davis, Fiona Harvey and Tamsyn Smith.
• Spring Symposium: The digital student, 26 March 2014, Bristol
  • Blog post by Rhona Sharpe, Welcome (slideshare)
• Webinar, 26 Feb 2014, Mark Childs: The BIM-Hub: virtual teamworking and online collaboration for undergraduates
• Webinar, 23 Jan 2014, Lesley Gourlay and Martin Oliver: Learner experiences vs the learner experience: visual and ethnographic methodologies (recording may be / no longer available)

2013

• Autumn Symposium: Learner Analytics, 4 November 2013, University of Liverpool
  • Opened by Prof Rhona Sharpe (slideshare) – ELESIG is 5 years!
  • Blog post summary and session slides/resources, by Tunde Varga-Atkins and Jaye McIsaac (doc)
  • Blog post on eLearning Unit blog site
  • Professor Chris Jones, Liverpool John Moores University on ‘Learner and student experience in an age of austerity: how is the agenda set?‘ (ppt)
  • Dr Cath Ellis, ‘Assessment Analytics: should we do it and, if so, what might it look like?‘ (ppt)
• Webinar, 16 Oct 2013, John Cook: Designing for Digital Learners (D4DL, slideshare) Research Group
• Summer Symposium: Flipped Classroom, 28 June 2013, City University, London
  • Simon Llewellyn blog post of the event
• Spring Symposium: Sharing research into learners’ experiences of MOOCs and other new technologies, March 2013, University of Hertfordshire
• Webinar: Ellen Lessner and Emma Procter-Legg: Evolving Digital Literacies: inductions to employment skills (ppt)

2012

• Webinar, 29 Feb 2012:
  • Tunde Varga-Atkins and Jaye McIsaac: Student Engagement Methods: a focus on the Nominal Group Technique (ppt), Practical Guide to Nominal Group Technique (pdf), Project report on Using the Nominal Group Technique with clickers (pdf)

2011

• 20 Nov 2011 ELESIG event (slideshare)
• Webinar, 18 May 2011:
  • Kyriaki Anagnostopoulou and Deeba Parmar: ELFYSE, Supporting the First Year Student Experience Through the Use of Learning Technologies (ppt)
• Webinar, 7 June 2011:
  • Janet Findlay, Dawn Wood and Nick Halafihi: Learners supporting each other: peer coaching for personal development (ppt)

2010

• Summer Symposium: The learner experience of transition: 15-16 July 2010, Leeds
  • Welcome and session outline (ppt)
  • Synergies between ELFYSE (first year student exp) and ELESIG (ppt)
  • Stefanie Anyadi and Lorraine Dardis: Transition Skills Development: An Online Resource for Master’s Students (pdf poster)
  • Bridget Middlemas: Using a student voice approach to design innovative, multi-format assessments (ppt)
  • Caroline Coles: Learner Research by Observation (ppt)
  • Esyin Chew: iLExSiG International Learners’ Experiences Special Interest Group (ppt)
  • Evaluation feedback of participants (doc)
• Webinar, How are institutions supporting effective learners in a digital age? 24 June 2010:
  • SLIDA report by Rhona Sharpe and Helen Beetham (no recording or presentation was available on the old ning site).
  • SLIDA VIDEOS to transfer!!
• Webinar, Doing It Right! Methods, Ethics and Hearing the Learner Voice, May 19, 2010:
  • Session overview 
  • Liz Masterman: Ethics of the “pen-pal” correspondence: Liz Masterman (ppt)
  • Adele Cushing: MENTOR ME Mobile Enhanced Mentoring for Teacher Training (ppt)
  • Ali Messer: Listening to students through appreciative enquiry (ppt)
  • Karen Fitzgibbon: Helping to shape and enhance the student experience. (ppt)
  • Amanda Jeffries: Using student constructed video diaries – reflections from the STROLL project (ppt)
• Spring Symposium: Contrasts and Contradictions in Learner Experience Research, 29 Apr 2010, SAID Business School, Oxford
  • Programme, Welcome (slideshare)
  • Chris Jones, OU: Dispelling the myth of the digital native (ppt)
  • Helen Whitehead and Rhona Sharpe: ELESIG and Cloudworks (ppt)
• Webinar, Influences of students’ experiences on their understandings of learning, 25 Feb 2010:
  • John Morrison, Vancouver, presentation and discussion
• Winter Symposium: Digital Futures: 21 Jan 2010, iLab, University of Reading
  • Welcome and overview by Rhona Sharpe and Malcolm Ryan (slideshare link)
  • Keynote: Richard Sandford, FutureLab: Re-perceiving the present through imagining the future (pptx), 3 scenarios (pdf)
  • John Traxler, The ‘Learner Experience’ of Mobiles,Mobility and Connectedness (pdf)
  • Anne Smith: Reading University: project on assessment of discussion board contributions
  • Ellen Lessner, Abingdon and Witney College: Digital literacy induction project
  • Kyriaki Anagnostopoulou: Leading learning, …or being led by it? in Members’ Corner (poster pdf)
  • Lucy Stone, Leicester College: HELLO project (Jisc) [Higher Education Lifelong Learning Opportunities] (pdf of slides)
  • Evaluation of the symposium of Jan 2010, survey feedback (doc)

2009

• Autumn Symposium: Learning Literacies in the Digital Age: 7 Oct 2009, (Joint with JISC), Birmingham
  • Programme
  • Forum notes (docx version of blog post)
  • Evaluation feedback by participants (doc) – by Jenny Mackness,
  • Literacies for Virtual Worlds. Slideshare from Mark Childs from Members’ Corner
  • Jenny Mackness: Results of ELESIG online survey 2009 (Word) contains questions on engagement and research interests and publication outputs of members
• Summer Symposium: Impact of Learner Experience Research on Feedback & Assessment: 23-24 June 2009, University of Glamorgan
  • Blog post
  • Norah Jones on Evaluating the Learner Experience (blog post by Helen Whitehead)
• Webinar: ELESIG / QA-QESIG joint webinar: Quality assurance and quality enhancement in the area of e-learning: case studies of implementation.What are the implications of student experience research as a central element of quality enhancement?
  • Becka Currant: Supporting Diverse Learners (ppt, slideshare link) 20 May 2009
  • Haydn Blackey: Student experience research informing policy and quality development  (ppt)
  • Magdalena Jara and Harvey Mellar: Quality enhancement for e-learning courses: the role of student feedback (ppt)
• Webinar: The Future of ELESIG, 17th March 2009
• Winter Symposium: Impact of learner experience research – using evidence to change policy, 29 Jan 2009, London Knowledge Lab

2008

• Autumn Symposium: Impact of Learner Experience research: Digital Literacies, 20 Nov 2008, Birmingham
  • Keynote: Helen Beetham and Becka Currant: Learning Literacies for a Digital Age (ppt)
  • Billy Brick: Multimodal feedback using Camtasia (ppt)
  • Gemma Towle & Rob Howe: E4L Interactive Case Studies (ppt)
  • Susie Wood, UCLAN: Pathfinder project: New Internet Technologies in the Student Experience (ppt)
• Summer Symposium: Blurring the boundaries: 8-9 Jul 2008, Greenwich
  • Symposium schedule
  • Combined presentation 
  • Interviews with ELESIG members (24 videos uploaded by Carol Higgison – to be uploaded to YouTube)
• Webinar: Implementing Practice: Influencing Change, 27th June 2008
• Symposium: 3 Jun 2008
  • Lee Harvey: Researching the student experience: an action implementation cycle (ppt)
  • Workshop by Gemma Towle and Rob Howe: E4L project (ppt) Back to Basics (doc)
  • Group discussion notes on mobile learning: 1) impact on portfolio development (Usha Sundaram), 2) m-learning / MOLENet (Jenny Mackness group notes)
• Webinar: Methods for Researching the Learner Experience, May 2008
• Inaugural ELESIG Workshop: Understanding experiences of learners in a digital age, 6 Mar 2008, Birmingham
  • Notes include (create doc): Programme – Gallery of Influences – Blog post by Rhona Sharpe – Notes from groupwork task (Jenny Mackness) – Blog post by Becka Currant
  • Welcome slides (slideshare)

Small grants outputs

• Surveys in E-Learning Research: Methodology, Key Issues and Resources by  (small grants, guide)
• Data collection methods used in evaluating students’ experiences of podcasts by Sabita Menon (small grants, annotated bibliography)
• A Survey of Undergraduate Technology Use and Attitudes by Hamish Macleod and Jessie Paterson (small grants report)
• International students’ experience of online participation in learning activities by Terri Rees (small grants, annotated bibliography)
• Ellen Lessner : What makes participatory projects a success (video) – flv file to be uploaded
• EA Draffan: ELESIG podcasts project (4mins09s) – flv file to be uploaded

Regional Group resources

Midlands (selected events)

• Second Midlands Regional Group Meeting: 20 May 2010, University of Derby
• First Midlands Regional Group Meeting: 20 Jan 2010

North-West (selected events)

• ELESIGNW Symposium: Curriculum design and innovation (Edge Hill University, 29 May 2018): collaborative blog post and links to presentations (Google doc)
• Gathering of the Clans – ALTNWE, ELESIG and MELSIG: Digital Placemaking (Edge Hill University, 31 May 2017): blog post
• ELESIGNW Symposium: Seek, Gather and Explore (LJMU, March 2017), keynote: Rhona Sharpe, programme
• ELESIGNW Symposium: Exploring student data (LJMU, 2 March 2016), keynote: Niall Sclater (invite pdf)
• Gathering of the Clans – ALTNWE, ELESIG and MELSIG (Chester University, 11 June 2015): schedule, or same schedule 
• 3rd ELESIG NorthWest symposium: Spaces, Places and Technologies  (Liverpool John Moores University, 25 Feb 2015): programme
• 2nd ELESIG NorthWest symposium: Learner experience research (University of Manchester, 8 Oct 2014): programme (ext link), blog post
• 1st, Inaugural event: ELESIG NorthWest (University of Liverpool, May 2014): blog post

Scotland (selected events)

• 9: #Future (UWS, November 2019)
• 8: Content Design (University of Dundee, 26 November 2018): programme (doc)
• 7: Breaking Down Barriers (Robert Gordon University, 22 July 2018): programme (doc)
• 6: Tools, techniques and teachers (Scotland, GCU, Autumn 2017), blog post by Vicki Dale (doc)
• 5: Learning in the open (Abertay University, April 2017): programme (pdf), blog post (doc)
• 4: Assessment and feedback (UHI, November 2016): programme (pdf), blog post (needs uploading with slides)
• 3: Student experiences of e-learning (University of Dundee, April 2016): programme with bios (pdf), blog post with links to slides by Vicki Dale (doc)
• 2: Staff experiences of e-learning (St Andrews University, 23 November 2015): programme handout (doc), blog post by Vicki Dale (doc)
• 1: Transitions and technologies: Inaugural Scotland meeting (University of Glasgow, 6 July 2015): programme handout (doc), blog post with links to slides (doc)