The document discusses what makes a successful online learner based on a research study. Some key findings include:
- Successful online learners are motivated, autonomous, and self-regulated. They engage proactively with course content and communicate effectively.
- Online learners feel enjoyment in their learning even when challenged, and feel in control of their learning outcomes. They employ strategies to cope with technology issues.
- Factors like educational background, access to technology, and other demands on time can impact an online learner's success. Support from instructors is important.
The document recommends that institutions and instructors choose courses thoughtfully for online learning, support learners' digital skills, and create a sense of community
Curriculum design, employability and digital identityJisc
From Jisc's student experience experts group meeting in Birmingham on 21 April 2016.
https://www.jisc.ac.uk/events/student-experience-experts-group-meeting-20-apr-2016
From Jisc's student experience experts group meeting in Birmingham on 21 April 2016.
https://www.jisc.ac.uk/events/student-experience-experts-group-meeting-20-apr-2016
From Jisc's student experience experts group meeting in Birmingham on 21 April 2016.
https://www.jisc.ac.uk/events/student-experience-experts-group-meeting-20-apr-2016
Curriculum design, employability and digital identityJisc
From Jisc's student experience experts group meeting in Birmingham on 21 April 2016.
https://www.jisc.ac.uk/events/student-experience-experts-group-meeting-20-apr-2016
From Jisc's student experience experts group meeting in Birmingham on 21 April 2016.
https://www.jisc.ac.uk/events/student-experience-experts-group-meeting-20-apr-2016
From Jisc's student experience experts group meeting in Birmingham on 21 April 2016.
https://www.jisc.ac.uk/events/student-experience-experts-group-meeting-20-apr-2016
Our community space is available at https://plus.google.com/communities/110898703741307769041 > Feel free to join. The conversations continue and we will be back and offer a mini version of the course during Open Education Week in March 2016.
The #creativeHE team
Link into your professional network - Jisc Digifest 2016Jisc
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The session will show case the Learning Futures/Education and Training Foundation funded resources for the FE and skills sector that its is anticipated may be embedded into a future Jisc service that is currently in the R&D phase.
What are students' expectations and experiences of technology?Jisc
What are students’ expectations and experiences of their digital environment?
Universities and colleges are increasingly working in partnership with their students on the development of their digital environment and content. As a result, students experience a digitally enabled learning experience which better meets their needs and offers them the digital skills they require for the workplace.
But do we really know how students are using technology and do they use the digital content provided or do they find their own from the wealth of resources available online?
This interactive workshop will provide participants with an overview of innovative approaches colleges and universities are using to gather their students’ views on digital and how they are they are using the data collected to inform the development of their digitally enhanced learning and teaching provision.
Wellbeing and responsibility: a new ethics for digital educatorsHelen Beetham
Slides for Jisc Learning and Teaching Experts' group June 2015 summarising work of Jisc Digital Student project and 'Framing digital capabilities' project. Summarises findings and draws out implications for 'digital wellbeing' as an emerging concern for staff and students.
Engaging students by closing the feedback loopJisc
Anish Bagga presented the findings, best practices,and potential consequences of an ineffective feedback system and how Unitu has discovered a great way to close the feedback loop. Delivered at the Learning and teaching practice experts group on 22 April 2015
Jisc Change Agents' Network webinar 30 June 2015Ellen Lessner
Dr. Eleanor Quince, University of Southampton and Charlotte Medland, a student on the project, presented an overview of the Mission Employable; a student-led employability activity.
'Reflect and review' the webinar series led by Sarah Knight.
Crossing the threshold: moving e-portfolios into the mainstream - Jisc Digita...Jisc
Since 2002 Jisc has been exploring the use of e-portfolio processes, pedagogies, tools and technologies in a range of learning contexts. Here in this workshop we will showcase the findings and key resources from this body of work, with a focus on the results of Jisc-funded research into e-portfolio implementation at scale, including the ‘threshold concept’ model of e-portfolio implementation, and findings of a subsequent study exploring the critical success factors for implementation.
A range of resources will be shared for participants to engage with, including the ‘e-Portfolio Implementation Toolkit’, which aims to enable others to understand issues around implementation and identify case studies that are most relevant to a their contexts; and video case studies showcasing rich examples of practice. Experience from a recent implementation story using the toolkit will be shared.
Leveraging change through digital capability - Sarah Davies, Beckie Dunsby, J...Jisc
Led by Sarah Davies, head of higher education and student experience, Jisc.
With contributions from:
Beckie Dunsby, learning technologies co-ordinator at Swindon College
Jayne Holt, assistant principal - learning services at Walsall College
Connect more in Cheltenham, 30 June 2016
The benefits and challenges of open access: lessons from practice - Helen Bla...Jisc
Led by Helen Blanchett, subject specialist, scholarly communications, Jisc.
With contribution from Andrew Simpson, associate university librarian (procurement and metadata and systems), Portsmouth University.
In this session you’ll hear in this session you’ll hear about the benefits and challenges of open access.
Connect more in London, 28 June 2016
What can institutional big data tell us - Mark Northover - Auckland Universit...Blackboard APAC
For many years AUT has used the Wimba Voice Authoring tools for a range of learning and teaching support activities. Most recently, and most comprehensively, the VA Presenter function has been used by our School of Languages to support a group of papers for a Translating and Interpreting programme, as well as for a Sign Language qualification. Since the announcement of ‘end of life’ for Voice Authoring and its replacement with Voice Thread, we have been working to understand how we can best replicate the previous functionality.
After just a short period of the tools being available to us, we have made some progress in understanding how this new toolset will provide what we want, as well as potentially offering us much more. This session will present some of our initial findings, as well as invite others to discuss their experiences and opinions.
Benchmarking tool: the student digital experienceJisc
Developed collaboratively with the National Union of Students and the Jisc change agents' network.
Taken from our learning and teaching practice experts group meeting on 23 June 2015
How evolving access needs for research is redefining the library role - Jisc ...Jisc
Eduserv has conducted worldwide research into the challenges faced by librarians around management of access to online resources.
The survey carried out with over 500 research librarians covers the academic, healthcare, government and corporate sectors worldwide with the majority of responses being from Europe and North America.
This session set out the findings of the research, showing the challenges and opportunities faced by research librarians around access management.
Our community space is available at https://plus.google.com/communities/110898703741307769041 > Feel free to join. The conversations continue and we will be back and offer a mini version of the course during Open Education Week in March 2016.
The #creativeHE team
Link into your professional network - Jisc Digifest 2016Jisc
This session will explore how helping teachers to build confidence in their own technical and professional networking skills, showing teachers how to use and become proficient with LinkedIn and how to transfer those skills to students can lead to employment for students.
The session will show case the Learning Futures/Education and Training Foundation funded resources for the FE and skills sector that its is anticipated may be embedded into a future Jisc service that is currently in the R&D phase.
What are students' expectations and experiences of technology?Jisc
What are students’ expectations and experiences of their digital environment?
Universities and colleges are increasingly working in partnership with their students on the development of their digital environment and content. As a result, students experience a digitally enabled learning experience which better meets their needs and offers them the digital skills they require for the workplace.
But do we really know how students are using technology and do they use the digital content provided or do they find their own from the wealth of resources available online?
This interactive workshop will provide participants with an overview of innovative approaches colleges and universities are using to gather their students’ views on digital and how they are they are using the data collected to inform the development of their digitally enhanced learning and teaching provision.
Wellbeing and responsibility: a new ethics for digital educatorsHelen Beetham
Slides for Jisc Learning and Teaching Experts' group June 2015 summarising work of Jisc Digital Student project and 'Framing digital capabilities' project. Summarises findings and draws out implications for 'digital wellbeing' as an emerging concern for staff and students.
Engaging students by closing the feedback loopJisc
Anish Bagga presented the findings, best practices,and potential consequences of an ineffective feedback system and how Unitu has discovered a great way to close the feedback loop. Delivered at the Learning and teaching practice experts group on 22 April 2015
Jisc Change Agents' Network webinar 30 June 2015Ellen Lessner
Dr. Eleanor Quince, University of Southampton and Charlotte Medland, a student on the project, presented an overview of the Mission Employable; a student-led employability activity.
'Reflect and review' the webinar series led by Sarah Knight.
Crossing the threshold: moving e-portfolios into the mainstream - Jisc Digita...Jisc
Since 2002 Jisc has been exploring the use of e-portfolio processes, pedagogies, tools and technologies in a range of learning contexts. Here in this workshop we will showcase the findings and key resources from this body of work, with a focus on the results of Jisc-funded research into e-portfolio implementation at scale, including the ‘threshold concept’ model of e-portfolio implementation, and findings of a subsequent study exploring the critical success factors for implementation.
A range of resources will be shared for participants to engage with, including the ‘e-Portfolio Implementation Toolkit’, which aims to enable others to understand issues around implementation and identify case studies that are most relevant to a their contexts; and video case studies showcasing rich examples of practice. Experience from a recent implementation story using the toolkit will be shared.
Leveraging change through digital capability - Sarah Davies, Beckie Dunsby, J...Jisc
Led by Sarah Davies, head of higher education and student experience, Jisc.
With contributions from:
Beckie Dunsby, learning technologies co-ordinator at Swindon College
Jayne Holt, assistant principal - learning services at Walsall College
Connect more in Cheltenham, 30 June 2016
The benefits and challenges of open access: lessons from practice - Helen Bla...Jisc
Led by Helen Blanchett, subject specialist, scholarly communications, Jisc.
With contribution from Andrew Simpson, associate university librarian (procurement and metadata and systems), Portsmouth University.
In this session you’ll hear in this session you’ll hear about the benefits and challenges of open access.
Connect more in London, 28 June 2016
What can institutional big data tell us - Mark Northover - Auckland Universit...Blackboard APAC
For many years AUT has used the Wimba Voice Authoring tools for a range of learning and teaching support activities. Most recently, and most comprehensively, the VA Presenter function has been used by our School of Languages to support a group of papers for a Translating and Interpreting programme, as well as for a Sign Language qualification. Since the announcement of ‘end of life’ for Voice Authoring and its replacement with Voice Thread, we have been working to understand how we can best replicate the previous functionality.
After just a short period of the tools being available to us, we have made some progress in understanding how this new toolset will provide what we want, as well as potentially offering us much more. This session will present some of our initial findings, as well as invite others to discuss their experiences and opinions.
Benchmarking tool: the student digital experienceJisc
Developed collaboratively with the National Union of Students and the Jisc change agents' network.
Taken from our learning and teaching practice experts group meeting on 23 June 2015
How evolving access needs for research is redefining the library role - Jisc ...Jisc
Eduserv has conducted worldwide research into the challenges faced by librarians around management of access to online resources.
The survey carried out with over 500 research librarians covers the academic, healthcare, government and corporate sectors worldwide with the majority of responses being from Europe and North America.
This session set out the findings of the research, showing the challenges and opportunities faced by research librarians around access management.
Reveal Digital: innovative library crowdfunding model for open access digita...PaolaMarchionni
Slides from a webinar held on 1 Dec 2016 by Jisc and Reveal Digital on Reveal Digital's library crowdfunding model for their Independent Voices digital collection. This includes information on pledging fees for UK universities as negotiated by Jisc Collections. A recording of the webinar is available at https://goo.gl/kEHRrD.
Digital scholarship and identifiers - Geoffrey Bilder, CrossReff
Share update – Elliott Shore, Association of Research Libraries
Jisc Monitor update – Neil Jacobs, Jisc
Infrastructure and services to track research activity – Daniel Hook, Digital Science
Jisc and CNI conference, 6 July 2016
The Non-Disposable Assignment: Enhancing Personalised Learning - Session 2Michael Paskevicius
Slides from our second meeting of three from a course redesign series on creating non-disposable assignments.
As advertised:
Do you want to offer students an opportunity to bring their passions, personal interests, and individual strengths into their coursework?
How can we design assessment which students feel connected to, value, and are proud to share with their peers?
Are you interested in learning how to create a non-disposable assignment for your students?
This 3-part assignment redesign workshop will take you through the steps to create a non-disposable assignment from beginning to end.
Disposable Assignments: "are assignments that students complain about doing and faculty complain about grading. They’re assignments that add no value to the world – after a student spends three hours creating it, a teacher spends 30 minutes grading it, and then the student throws it away” (Wiley, 2013).
This series is about creating a non-disposable assignment. The three sessions will blend a combination of some pre-reading, discussion, and in session time to flesh out the details of a rich assignment that allows students to co-create knowledge, be creative and engage in a personalised learning experience.
We’ll focus on crafting projects which meet your existing or redesigned course learning outcomes, explore tools for students to demonstrate their learning, and identify strategies for conducting peer-review. In the end you’ll end up with plan for implementing your redesigned assignment in Spring 2018 or Fall 2018.
Throughout the three-part workshop we will also be collectively exposing our own learnings to others in the group through a live reflection and blogging site to support our work. We hope faculty can attend all three parts as they are planned with the intent you are coming for the whole series.
Social Strategies for Successful Student EngagementSalesforce.org
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Presenter(s): Karen Lynden (Rowan-Cabarrus CC)
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Salesforce Foundation HESUMMIT 2014 7Summits Social Strategies for Successf...7Summits
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1. What makes a successful online learner?12/01/2017
Sarah Knight, Heather Price, Helen Beetham, Lou McGill
2. Quick poll
Which most closely describes your role in
online learning?
A. Teaching
B. Course design/development
C. Supporting/developing people
D. Supporting/developing systems
E. Management/leadership
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3. Quick poll
Which most closely describes your aims for
this webinar?
A. Develop myself professionally
B. Develop my dept/organisation
C. Learn more about the research/evidence
D. Get ideas for improving a course/courses
E. Other
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5. Background
»Digital Student: series of projects to
investigate students' expectations and
experiences of the digital environment
»Scaling Up Online Learning: guidance
and resources for institutions looking to
make online learning scalable and
sustainable
»Online learners scoping study:
background review and
recommendations for the online learners
investigation
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What makes a successful online
learner - report
6. Jan 2017 What makes a successful online learner webinar
Our assumptions:
» Most learners will experience some online component to
their learning: as they move into lifelong
learning/professional development, this component will
probably become more significant.
» Online learners are not a distinct group of learners: they are
any and all learners in situations where online resources,
networks and interactions are significant to their learning.
» For some learners, in some situations, ‘online’ is the strongly
preferred or only available space of learning.
» For most learners, ‘online’ is an adjunct space of learning
which intersects with offline learning at many points.
What do we mean by ‘online learning’?
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7. Jan 2017 What makes a successful online learner webinar
What do we mean by ‘online learning’?
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= online courses +/or
online elements of blended courses +/or
informal learning online
= learning in online spaces +/or
with online materials +/or
through online communications +/or
with online pedagogies
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8. » Literature review and analysis (260+ studies)
›Zotero online library
›Bibliography
» Validation of findings with:
›Expert advisory group
›Online learners
#OLsuccess forum
#OLSuccess report
›Practitioners
(3 live, 2 online events)
» Reporting and dissemination
What we did
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9. Our focus: what makes for
a successful online learner?
Key questions
» What are successful online learners like?
» What do successful online learners do?
» How do successful online learners feel about learning online?
» What differences among online learners are significant to their
success?
» How can providers and teachers/facilitators support online
learners’ success?
Underpinning issue: who defines success, who measures it?
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»Online learners are highly diverse: more differences than similarities
»Contexts and motivations for online learning vary across life stages
»Relationship of motivation to success: learners see them thru same lens
»Emotional responses significant to success: curiosity, confidence,
independence, connection; vs boredom, frustration, loneliness
»'Readiness to learn online' a consistently used but contested metric:
providers devising one-off instruments with little evidence base
»Research ‘tribes’ with different issues, discourses, methods e.g. big data vs
rich narratives
Key points
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12. Successful online learners are…
» Experienced, already successful learners (especially online!)
» Motivated, resilient and persistent
» Autonomous, self-efficacious, self-regulating
» Curious and inquiring
» Well-prepared and well-organised - with digital tech!
» Digitally capable (diminishing effect? Necessary but not sufficient)
» Divergent in their learning preferences and needs:
belonging vs independence, open vs closed, self-directed vs
scaffolded
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Finding: How do you prefer to use online resources?
Slightly more of our participants
preferred to use recommended
resources than to find resources
online for themselves: the
preference would almost certainly
have been stronger with a less
confident and experienced group of
learners.
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14. Jan 2017 What makes a successful online learner webinar
Finding: How do you like to use your social media?
Our participants were fairly evenly
split between using their social media
informally for learning, using it as a
core/essential element of their
learning, and keeping it quite separate
from their learning, with informal use
marginally the more popular.
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15. Successful online learners do…
» Engage in learning that’s right for them and focus on their own
aspirations (choice, motive: signposting, advice)
» Set goals, make and monitor plans
» View, actively curate, collate and review a wide range of course-
related content
» Pro-actively: find information, seek help, initiate communication
» Manage time and attention
» Integrate personal with course technologies and media
» Make online setting work for them: belonging vs independence,
open vs closed, self-directed vs scaffolded
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16. (Online) learning success
Context
(e.g. course)
Person
Experiences
(activities/
feedback)
Beliefs
(confidence,
self-efficacy)
Repertoire
(practices,
habits)
Motives
(objective,
desire, identity)
gender
age
language/culture
social/econ capital
access
other demands
environment
resources
activities
rewards
roles
interactions
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18. Successful online learners feel…
» enjoyment - even when learning is challenging (fun, motive,
curious, self-development)
» in control of their learning and their outcomes
» belonging and care - even in situations of low social/emotional
presence (implied from research)
» complex emotions about working with others
» anxiety and frustration e.g. with technology – but have strategies
for coping
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19. #OLsuccess Week
There are some things that I think are
vital; it’s the taking note of the
advantages that online gives, (e.g.
ability to have asynchronous activities
as well as synchronous ones)... But,
ultimately, we’re all different. What
suits me, today, mayn’t suit you
tomorrow.
What helps me in learning online is
the ability to set my own projects
and goals, to have access to a wide
range of resources and a group of
peers to support me. What doesn’t
help me is a course structure or
timed-delimited focus
If you do find it difficult to
have a voice – start small
and work up to more as
your confidence grows
Mainly I like it
because I don’t feel
pressured to be with
other people, which I
struggle with due to
my autism.
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21. Significant differences
» Self-efficacy, self-regulation etc. (disposition or repertoire?)
» Educational background, experience and capital: previous success
» Other demands on time, especially for older adult learners
» Access needs and challenges + Linguistic needs and challenges
» Mode of participation
» (to some extent) subject and level of study
» (to a diminishing extent) ICT confidence and capability
» (In a few studies) age, gender, cultural background, ethnicity,
employment status, socio-economic status
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22. Quick question
Any questions?
• Please write any comments or questions in the chat
window…
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24. Recommendations from previous Digital Student Studies
HE Digital Student Study recommendations
Final report of the FE Digital Study
Digital Student Skills Sector Final Project Report
Recommendations
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25. » Choose and purposely redesign the course or activity for online
learning
» Enable and support staff to develop their digital capabilities for online
LTA
» Reward staff for teaching innovation and establish champions of
online learning to cascade approaches out
» Develop a flexible, robust online learning environment, addressing
barriers to access
» Enable and support learners to take advantage of the opportunities
that online learning offers
» Create safe online spaces for learners to develop trust, establish
learning communities and develop a sense of belonging to the
institution
Recommendations for organisations
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26. » Use the Scaling up Online
Learning guides and checklists
to assess strengths and
weaknesses
» Encourage staff to use the Jisc
online learning readiness tool
either individually, in teams or
as part of their CPD
Recommendations for organisations
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Recommendations for online teachers
» Teach responsively, with consideration to learners’ different: motivations,
interests, learning histories and resources
» Prepare online learners to study online: norms, practices, expectations, good
study habits, functional access
» Enable learners to use their own devices, services and skills
» Support access to rich and diverse learning content
» Provide a digital environment that is accessible, social and personalisable: open
(for some learners); secure (for others)
» Address the barriers to success we have identified for specific groups of learners
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28. Recommendations for online learners
» Focus on your reasons for learning and
review your progress and goals regularly
» Consider whether online learning is right
for you.
» Before you sign up, make sure that you
have a thorough understanding of what
will be expected of you at all stages of the
course.
» Consider if you need a support network.
» If you have specific needs, ask in advance
how the course provider can help to
support your learning.
» Make sure that you have access to the
appropriate technologies that you will
need.
Image source:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/tamuc/14305644882/in/photostream/
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29. Recommendations for online learners
» Think about your learning ‘space/s’.
» Make a timetable and plan your tasks. Be
realistic about what you can complete.
» Try to be a ‘reflective learner’. At different
stages of the course consider if your
approaches are working for you.
» Be prepared to seek help if you need it from
tutors, other learners, or your own support
network.
» Consider using any mechanisms provided to
create a social presence, such as a place to
make a personal profile.
» Take advantage of any means to provide
feedback to your course provider.
Photo Credit: Adam Pantozzi/Times Alliance
https://www.flickr.com/photos/yodelanecdotal/4092671749
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30. Quick question
Which recommendation is most relevant
and actionable for your organisation?
• Please write any comments in the chat window…
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»Online version of the Digital Student Experience Tracker,
specifically for online learners/courses/providers
»Adapted questions drew on findings of Online Learners study
» 27 institutions signed up: 10 FE/skills, 17 HE: data ready for analysis
in April
»
What next? Digital student
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New 'Learners
Stories' project
collecting personal
accounts from
successful digital
learners
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» Scaling up online learning
» Curriculum design and support
» Technology and tools for online
learning
» Checklists (word document)
Scaling up online learning
A series of guides and checklists to help staff understand the decisions that need to
be made and the processes involved in scaling up online learning at an organisational
level:
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34. Jan 2017 What makes a successful online learner webinar
For individual staff, teams or as part of CPD
Online learning readiness tool
We welcome your feedback!
Scaling up online learning
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35. Quick poll
Which of the following should Jisc prioritise
now?
A. Qualitative research with online learners
B. Quantitative research based on data
from the Online Learners Tracker
C. Develop further guidance resources
D. Build a network for peer learning
across institutions
E. Institutional consultancy offer
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