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Palmer, Stuart and Holt, Dale 2009, Staff and student perceptions of an online learning environment : difference and development, Australasian journal of educational technology, vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 366-381.

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Title Staff and student perceptions of an online learning environment : difference and development
Author(s) Palmer, Stuart
Holt, Dale
Journal name Australasian journal of educational technology
Volume number 25
Issue number 3
Start page 366
End page 381
Total pages 16
Publisher Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (A S C I L I T E)
Place of publication Figtree, NSW
Publication date 2009-07-19
ISSN 1449-5554
Keyword(s) online learning environment
comparative study
staff perceptions
student perceptions
Summary Academic staff play a fundamental role in the use of online learning by students. Yet, compared to studies reporting student perspectives on online learning, studies investigating the perspectives of academic staff are much more limited. Perhaps the least common investigations are those that compare the perceptions of academic staff and students using the same online learning environment (OLE). Much research indicates, at least initially, academic staff most value OLE systems as a mechanism for efficient delivery of learning materials to students. Following the mainstreaming of an OLE at Deakin University in 2004, the data from a large, repeated, representative and quantitative survey were analysed to investigate comparative staff and student evaluations of an OLE, and to explore the evidence for development in the use of an OLE by academic staff. Generally, students were found to give higher importance and satisfaction ratings to elements of the OLE than staff. Students were also more likely than staff to agree that the OLE enhanced their learning. A comparison of the mean ratings recorded for staff in 2004 and 2005 showed that both importance and satisfaction ratings of elements of the OLE were almost universally higher after a year of use of the OLE.
Language eng
Field of Research 130306 Educational Technology and Computing
HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal
Copyright notice ©2009, Stuart Palmer and Dale Holt. Journal compilation ASCILITE
Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30022709

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