Supporting Student Learning with Online Courseware

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Supporting Student Learning with Online
Courseware Kenya Virtual Fieldcourse
http//www.esci.keele.ac.uk/kenya-vfc/
Elsbeth Robson School of Earth Sciences
Geography, Keele University, UK
e.robson_at_esci.keele.ac.uk

• Findings
• Student Preferences
• The VFC was positively received due to the
• Interactivity
• Independent learning mode
• Means to share fieldcourse experience with
  friends family
• Module-tailored course support
• Directed access to vast resources of www
• Student Expectations
• Students had demanding expectations that the VFC
  should be
• User friendly easily searchable
• Interactive
• Well illustrated
• Up to date well maintained
• Relevant specific to assessment goals

Clickable Maps
Quiz

• Features
• Instant score
• Feedback
• Sample Question

2. Lake Turkana is also known as? 1 The Pink
Sea2 The Red Sea3 The Jade Sea
Field Sketches

• Software Used
• HTML, JAVASCRIPT PERL were used to construct
  the Kenya virtual fieldcourse
• The site was written in HTML, then PHP used to
  control the look and feel of the overall design
• All the HTML, PHP PERL were handwritten
• The image database was written in PERL
• The quick quiz was written in HTML and JAVASCRIPT