Table of Contents

Report on the duologue project

by Pam Knights, Department of English Studies, University of Durham, U.K.

These are the general contents as they would probably have appeared in a printed version of this report, and I hope that they will serve as a fairly helpful guide (as this is the web, linearity has not always been my structuring principle.) However, each section is reasonably self-contained, and, if you launch off from the main navigation pages, you should, I hope, be able to peruse the sections in any order. To try to keep the list uncluttered, I have omitted reference to the various examples and screen-shots, which open off these pages.

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I. Home - Welcome page and general introduction.

II. About - project details (5 main pages, in sequence).

1. Purpose, background and prompts

2. Implementation - planned and actual

3. Pilot year - issues, main successes

4. Main phase - issues, main successes

5. Additional outcomes and successes; Conclusions.

III. Students - responses, comments, interviews, statistics

• English students and duo - overview.
  
  
• Evaluation- data from university Learning Technology surveys:
  
  
• Commentary on English student's responses in pilot and main phase
  
  
• Statistics for English students. Note, these tables take a while to download; you will also need to click your browser's back button to return to this site.
  
  
  • duo surveys - pilot 2002, main phase 2003
  • C&IT skills (first-year entrants in English) 2001, 2002.
• Tracking - examples of students' use and patterns of access

• Student initiated uses of duo [You might prefer to visit this from the 'Uses' pages.]

• Feedback - students' comments, formal and informal (4 main pages):
  1. Summary and main themes
  2. Pilot, main phase and continuing
  3. University survey - students' comments
  4. Project followup and interviews.

IV. Staff - responses, surveys, individual viewpoints, interviews

• English staff and duo - awareness, initial responses, survey overview
  
  
• Survey - details
  
  
• Viewpoints:
  
  
  • Comments from interviews , project follow-up year.
    
    
  • Individual perspectives by members of the project team:
    
    
    • Duologue: A Review - by Dr Robert Carver
      
      
    • A Worm's Eye View of the Blackboard System - by Dr Robin Dix
      
      
    • One teacher's approaches - an outline - by Dr Pam Knights [You might prefer to visit this from the 'Uses' pages.]
      

V. Uses - comments, reflections, illustrations from our sites

• Introduction - our ambitions and compromises;
  
  
• Screenshots - an online photo-album with general commentary
  
  
• Early contents list - an example of a basic 'no-frills' approach.
  
  
• One teacher's approaches - Pam Knights's overview of work in three modules.