

With Part B students reporting greater appreciation of the collaboration features of the tool. The results include the finding that there is a difference between how Part A and Part B students value the capabilities offered by OneNote. Although a small study, the use of multiple research methods enabled the triangulation of data, giving greater confidence in the findings of the study. The study surveyed the literature to understand how OneNote is being used within education and employed both online survey and focus group methods with students. The research was undertaken by staff at the University’s Centre for Academic Practice on behalf of the School. The paper also shares the findings of a study to explore the student perspective of Microsoft OneNote as a learning resource, against the context of the University’s Virtual Learning Environment.

This paper discusses how OneNote has been trialled on three modules with Part A and B Electrical Engineering Students at a UK university, in the School of Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering.

You can access notes easily and share them with other students to contribute together in near real-time through peer collaboration. Notes persist over time and can be referred to often for review and deeper understanding. You can either cut, copy, and paste (or save) the screen grab as a PNG. With technologies like OneNote, teachers can help students learn long after class time is over. Select the area you want to grab and that area will be placed into your unfilled notes section of OneNote. OneNote is used in industry but is also marketed to the education sector, however, there is little published to date about the application of OneNote to learning in Higher Education. By using the keyboard shortcut Windows+S, the screen will grey out and you will see a crosshair cursor. Microsoft OneNote is a digital notebook where notes can be created, stored, organised and shared.
