Factors affecting students’ usage and perceptions of a generic intranet learning resource: models of use

Abstract

The Key to Key Skills Project made portable to other universities an intranet system, developed at Leeds Metropolitan University, to support students’ Key Skills. The system was piloted and evaluated in three partner institutions (Sheffield Hallam University, Leeds Metropolitan University and the University of Plymouth). The evaluation revealed that how the system was introduced, rather than demographic or course factors, affected students’ usage and perceptions of it.

Acknowledgements

The following are acknowledged: Paul Bailey for overseeing the pilot at Plymouth; Suzanne Corazzi who was responsible for the LMU evaluation; Dr Malcolm Shaw, LMU, chair of the Key to Key Skills evaluation sub‐group; and John Taylor, LMU, for statistical analysis of questionnaire data.