Welcome to ELESIGRhona Sharpe

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Aims:

Identify and exploit the synergies between existing learner experience projects.

Build capacity for undertaking learner experience research.

Evaluation of Learners' Experiences of e-learning Special Interest Group

Launched in 2008

1700 members

6 local groups

ELESIG Facts

ELESIG members:

• Communicate/stay in touch with the field of learners’ experiences of e-learning

• Disseminate in an informal, friendly setting

• Find out about advances in methodology

• Gain feedback on our own research projects from colleagues

• Network with other researchers

Call for small grants

The grants scheme exists to

• help us build a shared repertoire of resources which will be of benefit to the community and the sector and which build on shared knowledge and practice about learner experience research

Grants of up to £750

Bid by the 20th of any month.

Example small grants

A Toolkit to Understand and Investigate Minimum Standards in the VL, Peter Reed, University of Liverpool

Experience of International Students in Negotiating Technology for Learning: An Annotated BibliographyTharindu R. Liyanagunawardena, University of Reading

Learners experiences of synchronous online activities: project report and web conferencing guidelinesCarole Gordon and Sarah Cornelius, University of Aberdeen

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Bid for a small grant

Host an event

Offer a webinar

Form an interest group

Form a local group

What can you do?

What do the Organising Committee do?

• Find contributory sponsorship to support ELESIG activities

• Administer Ning

• Administer the small grants scheme

• Organise events and activities

• Support new local groups

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