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							Hull (MALSO) CASE STUDY COVER SHEET

The MA in Legislative Studies Online (MALSO) is entirely taught online. It was created to respond to the
needs of potential students: staff working in or with parliaments. Typically mature students located in
dispersed places and with work and family commitments. Online teaching offered the flexibility of time and
space for these students to undertake the course. MALSO stems from the MA in Legislative Studies which had
proven of difficult access to many potential students.

This case study illustrates:

X Effect on learning (eg context, style, insight and reflective practice)

 Effect on exam results

X Effect on student personal development (eg skills, employability, confidence)

X Student satisfaction with e-learning (eg effect on motivation, attendance and enjoyment, as shown in
national survey, institutional survey, module evaluation, focus groups, or other)

X Innovation in teaching, learning and assessment (eg stimulus to creative approaches)

 Influence on educational research

X Staff satisfaction with e-learning

 Effect on staff personal development (eg skills, employability, confidence)

X Influence on recruitment (students or staff; eg through greater accessibility; opening up new markets)

 Influence on retention (eg students or staff)

 Influence on policy (eg institutional, faculty/school, departmental, or other extra-institutional body)

X Effect on resources (eg effect on cost of delivery, time, applying full economic costing to teaching &
learning)

 Modifications to learning spaces (eg libraries, wireless networks, informal learning spaces)

 Effect on management of learning assets (eg institutional IP, repositories)

 Effect on a social justice agenda (eg widening participation, provision of space for consideration of
differing or challenging perspectives)



Some comments from the course tutor:

“It allows time and flexibility of access to the course for both students and staff. One of the members of staff routinely travels
between two cities. Teaching online allows him to fit teaching into his busy schedule.”
“It allows improved student performance, as it recruits students with very high levels of academic ability, as well as providing the flexibility
for students to fit course work around their own busy lives.”


“MALSO has been a breakthrough in departmental policy, as there are only two MAs in the University of Hull that are taught
entirely online.”