VLEs, Blended Learning and Teacher Intervention

  Virtual Learning Environments, Blended Learning and Teacher Intervention Dr Nathalie V. TICHELER Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities n.ticheler@westminster.ac.uk http://ticheler.blogspot.com @nvticheler  Background information  – Topic:   Students’ engagement with a Virtual Learning Environment (Blackboard) for Blended Learning and elementary French  – Setting:   “new” university in the United Kingdom    – Rationale: institutional policies, practitioner research, reflective practice, student feedback, lack of data on students’ behaviour and attitude, staff development    – Doctoral thesis (more information available on http://ticheler.blogspot.com)  Research context  – Professional, organisational, national and theoretical (Plowright 2011)  – Precarious situation of languages in the UK (Kelly 2008; Worton 2009)  – Promotion of elearning (HEFCE 10-year strategy for elearning launched in 2005 and revised in 2009)  – Institutional policies (elearning, blended learning, teaching and learning (2010 & 2011)  –Need to know more about students’ attitude, behaviour and engagement (Mayes 2009; Garrison 2011)  – Homo sapiens digital (Prensky 2011)  – Normalisation of technologies (Bax 2011)  – Notion of student autonomy (Little 2011)  – Something about courses at the targeted university  Gillespie’s triangle (2012)   Institution Lecturers Students