Students' Voices

Listening to students’ views of learning with technologies

Publications

Download the Students’ Voices conference flyer here.

Download the theoretical background of the Students’ Voices II-project here.

Download the call for chapter proposal of research publication Student Reactions to Learning With Technologies: Perceptions and Outcomes here

Onderzoek naar de transferwaarde van succesvolle leerpraktijken met web 2.0
Jeroen Bottema, Jos Fransen, Bas van Goozen,  Pieter Swager and Guus Wijngaards, Centre of eLearning, INHolland University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands
report, September  2010

The effective implementation of ICT, especially the Web 2.0 applications, is considered to be of vital importance in realizing learning practises where students and pupils on the one hand, and the educational institute and teachers on the other hand have a joint responsibility for the learning contents and process. However, these applications, also referred to as the Social Web with major key words such as ‘openness’, ‘sharing’ and ‘creativity’, are mainly used in personal environments and seldom used in learning environments brought forward by educational institutes. This research investigates possible matches between these informal and formal learning processes in learning and teaching via a cross-case analysis of five innovative learning practices in the Netherlands.

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Listening to students’ and educators’ voices

Kathryn Moyle, University of Canberra, Australia
report, 2009

This report outlines findings collected from listening to and analysing the views and expectations of students within Australian education and training institutions about learning with technologies. The overarching question for this research was: ‘what are the views of students and early career educators, about learning with technologies in Australian education and training?

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Students’ Voices research: young people’s views on ICT
Guus Wijngaards, Centre of eLearning, INHolland University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands
article, May 2009

Quite a bit of research is carried out into young people and the way they use ICT. In many cases such research is aimed at getting a general idea of the kinds of media they use and the amount of time they spend on it. But usually the researchers do not take the opportunity to ask those young people themselves about their experiences with ICT, especially with regard to learning. How, based on those experiences, they view the use of ICT when doing homework, and what their expectations are regarding the use of ICT in school. Therefore, in the past few months, research has been carried out in Australia1 and the Netherlands –with support from Kennisnet- into the expectations and experiences of students, pupils and young, starting teachers regarding learning with ICT in education. This article presents the most important findings of that research.

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Report of the Dutch Students’ Voices research project
Guus Wijngaards, Jeroen Bottema, Jos Fransen, Hans van Eerden and Pieter Swager, Centre of eLearning, INHolland University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands
report, April 2009

Research into the ideas, expectations and experiences of pupils, students and early-career teachers with respect to the implementation of ICT in learning processes.

Download report (pdf, 1,3 mb, Dutch)

Students’ Voice: learning with Technologies. Students’ expectations about learning with technologies: a literature review
Kathryn Moyle, University of Canberra & Susanne Owen, Owen Educational Consultancy, Australia
article, February 2008

The focus of this literature review is on student voices in Australian research undertaken since 2002, about learning with technologies. While there is a growing body of literature about the importance of listening to the ‘student voice’ in teaching and learning both in Australia and overseas (cf Farrell, Danby, Leiminer, & Powell 2004; Jackson 2004; Whitehead & Clough 2004), there appears to be little research that has focused upon hearing students’ perspectives to learning with technologies.

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About Students' Voices

Students' Voices is an international initiative which aims to build collaborations between countries interested in listening to the views of students about learning with technologies.

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