Title :
Work in progress - a novel method of creating an academic content repository
Author :
Phythian, Mark ; Taylor, Jim ; Reushle, Shirley ; Harris, Glenn ; Kist, Alexander A. ; Ayers, Ron
Author_Institution :
Univ. of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, QLD, Australia
Abstract :
This paper outlines a project aimed at addressing the issue of the scalability of online academic support. This project is being run during the Autumn semester at the University of Southern Queensland (USQ) Toowoomba Australia, in conjunction with the Australian Digital Futures Institute. The study attached to the project will use Design-Based Research to evaluate the effectiveness of a simple, but innovative academic content and metadata creation tool referred to as Academic Assist. Academic Assist has been recently developed at USQ, as a plug-in block for the moodle-based Learning Management System employed at USQ for its several hundred online subjects. The pilot project extends over nine subjects, including three consecutive subjects in computer engineering; and covers faculties of Engineering, Education, Business, Science and Arts. Results of the study including acceptance surveys, expert reviews and usage statistics will be presented at FIE 2009.
Keywords :
Internet; digital libraries; distance learning; software tools; academic assist tool; academic content repository; computer engineering subjects; design based research; metadata creation tool; moodle-based learning management system; online academic support; Art; Australia; Computer science education; Costs; Databases; Distance learning; Economies of scale; Scalability; Statistics; Web and internet services; academic support; content repository; design-based research; metadata;
Conference_Titel :
Frontiers in Education Conference, 2009. FIE '09. 39th IEEE
Conference_Location :
San Antonio, TX
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4715-2
Electronic_ISBN :
0190-5848
DOI :
10.1109/FIE.2009.5350874
