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Session 19
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FULL
Title: Information
Technology and Adult Students in University Continuing Education
Session
Description:
The Continuing Education
program administrators are planning to offer more blended
delivery options. In the University of Manitoba continuing
education context, blended learning is intended to increase
scheduling flexibility for both students and instructors by
using some online course components to reduce the number of
scheduled evening or weekend class times.
This session will present the initial findings from the first
year of a three-year longitudinal survey study of continuing
education students’ experiences and opinions of information
technology. Some comparisons to the Educause Applied Research
Centre (ECAR) findings will be presented, as ECAR granted
permission to use questions from their survey of U.S.
undergraduate students. The findings from the continuing
education information technology survey form part of the adult
learners’ needs assessment.
As with the ECAR study, this survey asks for basic background
information and questions students or potential students about:
- what kinds of information
technologies they use and how often;
- what their level of skill is
at using different information technologies;
- how these technologies
contribute to their learning experience; and
- what value information
technologies provide in teaching and learning.
Presenter: Bonnie Luterbach
 Bonnie
Luterbach is a faculty member in Distance and Online
Education at the University of Manitoba, where she has held the
positions of Senior Instructional Designer, Associate Director,
and Director. Bonnie has a Ph.D. from the British Open
University, a graduate diploma from the University of Southern
Queensland, Australia, and her Masters in Education from the
University of Manitoba. She has worked as an educator in the
Canadian secondary, college, and university systems for over 30
years, with twenty years experience directly related to projects
involving media and distance/distributed learning. Her current
research focus is about convergence of on-campus and distance
education with the continued adoption of web-based technologies.
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