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Angelica Risquez
Centre for Teaching and LearningUniversity of
Limerick
Students’ experience of virtual learning environments
Why?
Political acknowledgement of the role of the VLE
Existing literature gaps
Does the VLE reinforce traditional teaching?
All you need to know…
Longitudinal data collection
Open participation o ILTA research strategy (UL lead)
Anonymous and collegiate sharingo 12 institutionso over 20,500 student responses
UL data for 2008, 2011 and 2013 (n=3,547)
The VLE is useful/very useful for…
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NationalUL
'My course is very time consuming and it's difficult to manage study around this. Sulis allows me that time to concentrate my study in a precise way. It suits me just the way it is...'
My lecturers make good use of the VLE (agree/strongly agreee)
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The VLE iseasy to use
The VLE isreliable
I would like mylecturers to
make more useof the VLE
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My lecturers make good use of the VLE (agree/strongly agreee, 2013 data)
'It provides you with a good picture of how the semester will look regarding assignments thus allowing adequate planning'
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Gives me more accessto my lecturers
Gives me more accessto my classmates
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Using the VLE…(agree/strongly agreee, 2013 data)
Getting notes on [VLE] makes me less likely to go to lectures (2013)
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'If I can't attend college because of being sick, or family commitments, I don't feel completely lost as I
can keep track of everything in [the VLE]'
Receives grades for taking quizzes/tests within VLE
Receives grades for participating in discussion forums
(2013, national)
'Makes me revise more and allows me to prepare for labs more efficiently as my lecturer
posts videos online in Sulis'
‘Sulis has been very important to
my studies throughout the years, when on
Erasmus the lack of a useful and easily accessible system like Sulis was very
noticeable’
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