I agree that attendance can be affected by a number of factors and
recorded in a number of ways. If tutors are concerned about attendance
then the VLE can help in a number of ways, as ever it is all down to
course design.
I cant see that making lecture notes available after lectures will turn
a well attended course into a poorly attended one, but if that is a
concern to the tutors then there are other ways in which they can use
the VLE.
Steve
Stephen Clarke
Head of eLearning
Information Services
University of Birmingham
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Subject: Re: [VLES] VLEs and Student Attendance
I'm not familiar with the detail of the link between attendence and
funding in FE. Doesn't on-line attendence count?
Some years ago when I was working in a university science department the
management implemented a highly controversial survey to determine the
proportion of hours staff were teaching versus administration and
research. We were only allowed to count an hour as teaching if we were
physically in the same room as one or more students. So, the hours I and
several colleagues spent supporting students on-line were not
classifiable as teaching and consequently we appeared to be spending
less time on teaching than others! This was particularly galling
because we were clearly managing to get our students to work hard while
away from the lecture theatre which was a minor miracle.
If you give the students continual assessment, they work hard and do
well does it matter if they don't come to all the lectures?
Is the funding model in FE preventing people from reducing contact
teaching in favour of private study with on-line support?
Jon Maber
Adele Cushing wrote:
>Hi everyone
>
>We are beginning to rollout our portal with staff and there is some
>reticence from them regarding making resources available to students
>after lectures in case students don't turn up for lessons, which will
>affect our attendance records and funding.
>
>Has anyone any preventative measures of such a thing or could point me
>in the direction of evidence of this not being the case - I need to be
>able to defend the cause!!
>
>Thanks a lot
>
>Adele
>
>Adele Cushing
>E-Learning Co-ordinator
>South Nottingham College e-centre
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