"First portal in a storm": A virtual space for transition students

Karen J Nelson; Sally M Kift; Wendy E Harper

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"First portal in a storm": A virtual space for transition students

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"First portal in a storm": A virtual space for transition students

Karen J Nelson, Sally M Kift and Wendy E Harper

Proceedings of the 2005 Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education Annual Conference, pp.509-517

Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (ASCILITE) Annual Conference: Balance, Fidelity, Mobility: maintaining the momentum?, 2005 (Brisbane, Australia, 04-Dec-2005–07-Dec-2005)

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Curriculum and Pedagogy

Specialist Studies in Education

virtual learning environment

transition

online engagement patterns

transition portal

millennial students

enhancing transition

communication preferences

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The lives of millennial students are epitomised by ubiquitous information, merged technologies, blurred social-study-work boundaries, multitasking and hyperlinked online interactions (Oblinger & Oblinger, 2005). These characteristics have implications for the design of online spaces that aim to provide virtual access to course materials, administrative processes and support information, all of which is required by students to steer a course through the storm of their transition university experience. Previously we summarised the challenges facing first year students (Kift & Nelson, 2005) and investigated their current online engagement patterns, which revealed three issues for consideration when designing virtual spaces (Nelson, Kift & Harper, 2005). In this paper we continue our examination of students' interactions with online spaces by considering the perceptions and use of technology by millennial students as well as projections for managing the virtual learning environments of the future. The findings from this analysis are informed by our previous work to conceptualise and describe the architecture of a transition portal.

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Title: "First portal in a storm": A virtual space for transition students
Authors: Karen J Nelson (Author) - Queensland University of Technology
Sally M Kift (Author) - Queensland University of Technology
Wendy E Harper (Author) - Queensland University of Technology
Publication details: Proceedings of the 2005 Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education Annual Conference, pp.509-517
Conference details: Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (ASCILITE) Annual Conference: Balance, Fidelity, Mobility: maintaining the momentum?, 2005 (Brisbane, Australia, 04-Dec-2005–07-Dec-2005)
Publisher: Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (A S C I L I T E)
Date published: 2005
Copyright note: Copyright © 2005 Karen Nelson, Sally Kift and Wendy Harper. Reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Any other usage is prohibited without the express permission of the authors.
Organisation Unit: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; Office of the Pro Vice-Chancellor (Students)
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99447766702621
Output Type: Conference paper

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