Academic Session ACA04
Education Through Entertainment: Promoting Learning Through the Use of Creative and Engaging Online Resources
Date Thursday, Dec 1 Time – RoomPotsdam I
This presentation outlines the findings from a qualitative study that explored the interactive qualities of an e-learning teaching module, reflecting upon style, content and functionality and their resultant impact upon students’ attention and engagement. It analysed the ways in which learners interact with e-learning materials. It identified features which engage and promote attention enhancing a particular focus placed upon ‘what works’ and ‘what doesn’t work’. And this study also makes a number of recommendations for e-learning developers, considering approaches and resources for enhancing engagement.
Gary Morris
Nursing Lecturer, University of Leeds, UK
Gary Morris is the programme leader for the Bsc (hons) Nursing (Mental Health) programme at the University of Leeds. He lectures in mental health nursing, running modules in dementia care; media and mental health; and lived experience in mental health. He is the author of a number of academic textbooks, chapters and articles. He is involved in creating e-learning materials / packages (primarily using Articulate Presenter) and supervising and promoting online learning uptake amongst teaching colleagues. Significance of this e-learning work was recognised by the award of a University of Leeds Student Education Fellowship in January 2016.
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Nives Kreuh
Senior Consultant, E-learning, National Education Institute, Slovenia
Nives Kreuh is a Head of e-learning at the National Education Institute in Slovenia. She is doing the national research, strategy planning and implementation of new curricula through teacher continuous professional development in the field of digital pedagogy and e-learning.
She was leading the national E-competent teacher project in which they designed the standard of e-competent teacher, principle and ICT coordinators in schools framework called The Way towards E-competency. She focused on designing key e-competencies and developing the efficient training model called The Way towards E-competency, leading the instructional design and online courses (MOOCs) development for in-service teacher training and professional development to raise pedagogical digital literacy in schools nationwide.
She is the Head of Programme and Organising Committe of the international SIRikt* conference (*Enabling Education and Research with ICT), which is the largest educational conference in Slovenia with around 1000 delegates each year.
She also works internationally as the national expert and is the author of E-Competent Teacher, Principle and IT expert Framework and Designing E-Student Books Framework.