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Title:      USING A TECHNO-SCEPTICISM FRAMEWORK TO EVALUATE THE PERCEPTION AND ACCEPTANCE OF A NEW ONLINE READING LIST
Author(s):      Ajmal Sultany, Samantha Halford
ISBN:      978-972-8939-88-5
Editors:      Miguel Baptista Nunes and Maggie McPherson
Year:      2013
Edition:      Single
Keywords:      e-Learning, Online Reading List; Student Experience; Evaluation; Techno-scepticism
Type:      Full Paper
First Page:      107
Last Page:      117
Language:      English
Cover:      cover          
Full Contents:      click to dowload Download
Paper Abstract:      There has been an exponential growth of e-learning in the UK Higher Education. However, there is a growing opinion that e-learning practitioners are not critical enough and that they should adopt a more techno-negative or techno-scepticism approach when implementing new e-learning tools. In this paper we use a techno-scepticism framework to assess the evaluation of a newly implemented online reading list at our UK Higher Education Institution. In particular, we look at the ‘The Myths about E-Learning in Higher Education’ proposed by Njenga and Fourie (2010). We present qualitative and quantitative evaluation data collected from the focus groups which shows that the students have a very positive perception of this newly implemented online reading list and believe that it will improve their academic experience. Furthermore, as the student focus groups also produced rich data which deal with the students’ experience of e-learning in general, five of the myths of e-learning that relates to the student experience are used to framework these discussions.
   

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