A recent post to Inside Higher Education highlights a learner experience study done at Dartmouth. The research project was led by Lucretia Witte, a Darmouth student herself, and focussed on good practice in teaching with technology. The four key recommendations are consonant with our findings from the Gwella learner experience study, so I'll quote the Darmouth findings below.

According to the study, there are four things tutors can do immediately to enhance their students' learning experience:

1. "Ensure that all readings, articles, presentations and videos (all course material) are available in the course management system.
2. Create a weekly reading assessment that asks students to formulate or discuss the most important things you wanted them to get out the this week's articles.
3. Make your syllabus a living document and let students know about changes via class emails - it will put your class in the forefront of their minds.
4. Use technology to help students engage with one another - create peer review groups for papers or discussion groups online."

For more information, read the original post: Joshua Kim (January 18, 2011) "Student Views on Technology and Teaching" http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/technology_and_learning/student_views_on_technology_and_teaching (Accessed 20 January 2011)