esubmission – institutional policies and academic attitudes
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EdMedia conference presentation, Lisbon 2011TRANSCRIPT
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eSubmission – Institutional Policies and Academic
AttitudesDr Barbara Newland, Brighton
Lindsay Martin, Edge HillAndy Ramsden, University Campus Suffolk
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What is eSubmission?
Methodology
Results
Questions
Overview
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The term eSubmission is used very widely to cover a range of activities which include:
◦ eSubmission◦ eMarking◦ eFeedback◦ eReturn◦ Plagiarism deterrence and detection
What is eSubmission?
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eSubmission – online submission of an assignment
eMarking – marking a paper online
eFeedback - producing online feedback which could be text, audio etc but not paper
eReturn – online return of marks
Definitions
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To identify current practice with regard to eSubmission, eMarking and eFeedback in UK HE
To gain a snapshot of the strategic overview identifying key issues relating to assessment regulations and academic attitudes
Aim
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eSubmission is being implemented in universities within the UK
Not a new initiative but has developed on an ad hoc, experimental basis within individual institutions across the sector
On the verge of a step-change from experimental to mainstream adoption of eSubmission
Driven largely by expectations of efficiency gains and an improved student experience
Rationale
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Online survey on eSubmission was circulated to HeLF as its members can provide the institutional perspective on eLearning
Methodology
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A network of senior staff in institutions engaged in promoting, supporting and developing technology enhanced learning
Over 125 nominated Heads from UK Higher Education institutions
A regular programme of well attended events Represents the interests of its members to
various national bodies and agencies including the Higher Education Academy and JISC
www.helf.ac.uk
Heads of eLearning Forum (HeLF)
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The survey took about 10 minutes to complete Participants were assured that all data collected in
the survey would be held anonymously and securely No personal data was asked for or retained unless
the participant indicated a willingness to participate in the follow-up activity
The questions were a mixture of closed multiple-choice and multiple selection as well as open response type
The survey was available for a month in 2011 and the results were analyzed using quantitative and qualitative methods.
Methodology
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38 responses from HeLF members 30% response rate
Results
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eSubmission policy
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Regulations
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Confidence policies and procedures
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Ways of giving advice
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Ways of Giving Advice
How to guides
Face to face
Online videos/screencasts
Managers briefing documents
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Lunchtime presentations Events which are part of Faculty learning and teaching
events Show-n-share events Learning and Teaching committees Faculty presentations by staff Advice and consultancy Virtual Communities of Practice Checklists for academics, students, and administrative
staff. An opportunity for HeLF members to participate in the
collaborative sharing and creation of open educational learning resources.
Other ways of giving advice
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Levels of encouragement
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Encouragement
Actively encouraged
Actively encouraged by managers
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“The VCs support for this, based on student feedback, has given this strong importance across the institution. Managers have bought in to the VCs vision.”
“E-feedback may be held up as a way of meeting Uni's deadlines for providing feedback to students.”
Managers “want to encourage saving time.”
Driven by student feedback
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Academic Attitudes
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Academic Attitudes
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Staff have spent their academic careers marking piles of papers. They have found ways of making this as effective and efficient as possible.
Mark anywhere they can carry the papers from their office, to the garden or while travelling such on the train.
In some institutions it is thought that academic anxieties about marking online are changing and “falling away slowly.”
Current effective practice
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Many academics are anxious about the change
Connectivity - If the eMarking system is online then there can be issues with connectivity when away from the office.
Health and safety issues such as “head ache, eye strain and back/posture issues.”
Increase in workload - “downloading/re-uploading etc, audio feedback is also perceived by many to be time consuming.”
However, many academics do not want to mark on screen as “mainly it is a preference from habit”
HeLF members recognise that that staff will require support through “this major change in working practice.”
Concerns
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The need for an “appropriate method for submission that is robust, reliable and secure” was recognised
“Higher use of these processes demands highly resilient VLE infrastructure.”
Interestingly, there may be a robust method but “staff sometimes are using other tools in ways we do not recommend which causes trouble. “
Technical concerns
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“There is also a question about student expectations and preparedness for new and different forms of feedback. Students are not always sure how to interpret and use new forms like audio feedback.”
There are also concerns about who will support students in this process.
Student anxieties
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Anonymous marking Double marking Archiving Data protection Variety of file formats
All of these will need to be addressed for the effective use of eSubmission.
Other concerns
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The findings indicate a wider spread and increasing use of e-submission across the sector and academic staff perceptions are relatively positive about these developments
The process of implementation is generally occurring in departments and Schools with institutional changes in policy and practice following afterwards
However, at the institutional level, there might need to be a review of codes of practice and regulations
Conclusion
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Effective eSubmission has the potential to increase efficiency in organisations by improving their business processes and eFeedback may enhance learning
In order to see the potential benefits offered then it will be necessary to address the major anxieties about academic attitudes to eMarking and eFeedback as well as the need for robust technical infrastructure
One HeLF member commented that it “needs a lot of different stakeholders to work together to make it effective and as we know when projects like this are outside the control of a single unit within an institution it is almost impossible to get consensus or agreed processes.”
Conclusion
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References HeLF. (2011) www.helf.ac.uk JISC. (2007) Student Expectations Study, available from
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/research/2007/studentexpectations.aspx
JISC. (2009) Higher Education in a Web 2.0 World, available from http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/generalpublications/2009/heweb2.aspx
Nicol, D., & Macfarlane-Dick, D. (2006) Rethinking Formative Assessment in HE: a theoretical model and seven principles of good feedback practicehttp://business.heacademy.ac.uk/assets/York/documents/ourwork/tla/assessment/web0015_rethinking_formative_assessment_in_he.pdf
Redecker, C. (2009) Review of Learning 2.0 Practices: Study on the Impact of Web 2.0 Innovations on Education and Training in Europe
Smith, S. D. & Borreson Caruso, J. (2010) The ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology,(Research Study, Vol. 6). Boulder, CO: EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research, 2010, available from http://www.educause.edu/ecar, (1998), ‘Growing Up Digital: the Rise of the Net Generation’, McGraw Hill, New York