Project implementation so far against the background of the stipulated activities in the Work Plan
Description of Activity | Detailed activities |
Buy-in workshop | 2-day workshop held at FUTA for all members of research team, coordinated by the Principal Investigator |
Acquisition of Equipment and Software | Purchase of equipment Training in the use of Smart board |
Stakeholders’ consultation | Initial contact with identified private & public sector stakeholders by phone Sent stakeholders discussion information packs and questionnaires Face-to-face meeting with public and private sector employers/stakeholders |
Preliminary data collection | Developing & Piloting questionnaires & Schedules |
Collection of System Data | Online administration of questionnaire to lecturers and students via the system |
Data Collection | Face-to-face data collection events Focus group discussions with lecturers and students Interviews with institutional headsAdministration of Stakeholder Questionnaire (Identification of Skills sets) |
Data analysis (Including Needs Analysis) | Results of preliminary analysis are feeding into the design of the digital literacy curriculum, blended learning framework, pre-test, courses and toolkits. Full data analysis is in progress |
Development of templates for adaptable digital literacy curriculum | Development of course outlines for embedding in selected courses. |
Development of draft adaptive pedagogical model and framework of Blended Learning | Draft Adaptive Pedagogical Model and Framework has been developed. Refinement will be done after staff training |
Development, Deployment and Refinement of toolkits/ affordances | Development of Adaptive Blended Learning System (AdaptivBL) Development of Teachmate toolkit, a curriculum plan toolkit that helps teachers to plan their courses. Development of Schem@ a learning activity design toolkit that assists teachers to determine the learning activity mix: which activities take place within the different learning spaces: laboratory/workshop/studio, face-to-face, group/pair work, online activities, projects, etc |
Organisation of staff training programmes | Course design completed. Staff training to commence May/June (aligning different campus calendars) |
Trialling of toolkits (five locations) | AdaptivBL was deployed for a quiz in FUTA. The performance was very good. Teachmate and Schem@ will be trialled in June/July |