Niki,
sorry, no. I was too busy teaching, writing software and running the VLE!
The notification system was first introduced into Bodington because I
was having some difficulty persuading colleauges to respond to student
queries in a timely fashion. Most regularly monitored incoming email but
weren't logging into the VLE habitually. The most embarassing early
example...
I persuaded a course module manager to support her students on-line and
all went well until the series of lectures given by a certain senior
member of the teaching staff. A student asked a question on the module
bulletin board which the course manager couldn't answer herself but as
the days passed she noticed that there was no reply forthcoming so she
emailed a copy of the text of the question to the professor. Some days
later the professor's secretary came to me with a print out of the email
and a response written in pencil on a scrap of paper with hand drawn
sketches. "How do I get this in the VLE?"
This was an extreme case but the more common situation was that the
bulletin board for a course module would be quiet for a couple of weeks
before the problem lectures occured and questions came up. By this time
the teaching staff had stopped visiting and so the questions went
unanswered. Used like this the bulletin board actually degrades the
value of the course. So the software was developed so that we could
arrange for staff and students alike to recieve daily digests of
activity in resources of interest to them. (Of course no digest is sent
if nothing happens.)
The notification system was built in an object oriented way so it was
simple to extend it to new tools.
Jon Maber
niki lambropoulos wrote:
>Jon,
>
>do you have papers on the topic?
>
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