When I visited the Scottish Learning Festival last week I was very fortunate to be met from the plane by David Noble of the extremely popular Booruch podcast. David and I have been online working colleagues for a long time now and he was in fact the very first person to bookmark this blog in delicious. At the TeachMeet event David presented in the breakout sessions about his thesis project which he is looking for support. He has always been very generous and supportive to me and so I would urge you to help David if you can with his project, which he himself explains about below.
I would like to invite you to participate in the edonis project which commences at the start of November. edonis (educators online impact study) will run for at least three years, identifying, for example:
- Trends in educators’ use of online communication
- impact on teaching and learning, and professional development
- good practice
- implications for the learning sector and government.
Your involvement would centre on:
- Replying to a brief fortnightly emailed question
- monthly; completion of a brief online survey
- termly; responding to stimulus eg image, video, comment
- yearly; participating in a one-hour online discussion relating to the findings of the study
- a one-to-one interview with myself during the period of research.
There is a ‘community of practice’ running alongside my research (at http://edonis.ning.com), which is intended to facilitate participants’ learning through: regular reporting and sharing of data and findings; opportunities to network with fellow educations and participate in focused discussions; and access to the final version of the thesis.
The study will form part of my doctoral thesis, provisionally titled, “Educators’ use of the social web to support teaching and learning, and professional development”. Your participation will be recognised within the published thesis and with a yearly Professional Development (CPD/PD) certificate. At each stage of the study, you will be able to choose to annonymise your contribution.
If you would like to take part or find out more, please email me at edonisproject@yahoo.co.uk.
David Noble
I hope that you find the time to offer your support to David and I wish him luck with the project.
Image: “TeachMeet08@SLF: David and Tom” – David Muir