THE SUMMARY of THE STUDENTS THOUGHT on DECISION PHASE
by meiyi zeng
1. Whitworth, A., 2012. Invisible success: Problems with the grand technological innovation in higher education. Computers & Education, 59(1), pp.145-155.
2. Allen, C. (2015) ‘Social media as an alternative to Moodle in EFL teaching practice forums’, Critical CALL – Proceedings of the 2015 EUROCALL Conference, Padova, Italy, 0(2015), pp. 9–15. doi: 10.14705/rpnet.2015.000303.
3. Weller, M. (2007) Virtual Learning Environments: Using, Choosing and Developing your VLE. Taylor & Francis. Available at: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=uZN9AgAAQBAJ.
4. Students want to use various different environments on e-learning and to suggest the development for the existing VLE
4.1. To make 'Learn Online' more reliable
4.2. To make 'Learn Online' faster, upgrade high speed internet access.
4.3. To make 'Learn Online' more accessible
4.4. To make 'Learn Online' more personal, by personalised feature.
4.5. To purpose new e-learning tool to the authority, inspired from some good features idea from Facebook ( social media)
4.6. To purpose the idea of improvement about IoT ( the Internet of things) to help students get access to the information openly, solving the problem of discontent.
4.7. The learning materials in 'LearnOnline' are supposed to be updated more frequently so that students could review the lessons by using it.
4.8. There should be more learning resources in 'LearnOnline' like reading lists, study skills to support students' learning.
4.9. The school could consider about a way for graduates to get access to the 'LearnOnline' resources in school, so that the students who graduated from could also be benefited by this online system.
4.10. The 'LearnOnline' system is supposed to be upgraded, by this way students could get a faster and easier learning experience.
4.11. The wifi speed needs to be accelerated.
4.12. The school could increase the number of computers in campus and add different types of computers (like Mac system) if possible.
5. The perspective of our group to address the key questions
6. References
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6.7. Atayero, A. A., Ilori, O. A. and Adedokun, M. O. (2015) ‘Cloud Security and the Internet of Things: Impact on the Virtual Learning Environment’, Edulearn15: 7th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies, (July), pp. 3857–3863.
6.7.1. Whitworth, A. and Benson, A. (2010) ‘Virtual Learning Environments ’, Emerging Technologies in Distance Education, pp. 195–213.