We’re delighted our strategic project application for the ULTSEC Innovation fund has been approved. The study is titled: ‘An educational experience supported and enhanced by technology; a mixed methods exploration of students’ and staff’s perspectives’.

The University’s education strategy draws a large emphasis on delivering an educational experience supported and enhanced by technology. The study is a sequential mixed methods approach to explore students’ and staff’s perspectives across the University, including NUMED, London and Singapore, on wants and needs with respect to the use of technology in teaching and learning. The study will be conducted in two phases. The first phase (qualitative) will consist of an in-depth exploration of students’ and staff’s (including professional support staff) perspectives of technology in the teaching and learning environment and focus groups will be conducted in all locations/Faculties. In the second phase (quantitative) a web-based self-completion survey will be developed and conducted. Gaining an understanding of how students and staff utilise technology and their views on how technology could be incorporated into their educational experience, is vital in order to align the teacher-learner perspective and prioritise technology use and the support thereof. We are currently recruiting student interns and hope to start data collection in the next few months. We are very grateful to the ULTSEC Committee for this opportunity and we look forward to sharing the results.

Project Team: Dr. Floor Christie, Dr. Ruth Valentine, Mr. John Moss, Ms. Bhavani Veasuvalingam.