This project is based around an existing public web site, "English at the Beach", produced by Preston Reservoir Adult Community Education, from 2000-2005.

The practitioner-based research has involved gathering feedback from visitors, conducting face-to-face sessions, examining the structure of the site, and investigating patterns in the visitor statistical data.

This Page: [live versions] [related web sites] [thesis on disk]

Thesis on disk:

Entire Thesis, Chapters 1-8
with bibliography (word doc: 4.5mb)

Separate chapter documents

• Front Cover
  (word doc: 45k)
• Chapter 1: Executive Summary
  (word doc: 230k)
• Chapter 2: Context and Background
  (word doc: 85k)
• Chapter 3: Literature Review
  (word doc: 500k)
• Chapter 4: Questions + Methods
  (word doc: 650k)
• Chapter 5: Structure and Development
  (word doc: 1.8mb)
• Chapter 6: Web Usage (Statistics)
  (word doc: 900kb)
• Chapter 7: On Visitor Feedback
  (word doc: 700k)
• Chapter 8: Discussion and Recommendations
  (word doc: 440k)

Appendices
(word doc: 300k)

Live versions of the site remain on the web

Here are links to the actual sites, live on the web.

English at the Beach, the actual and current, live web site, on the PRACE web server.

Remnants of the old Vicnet Version here.

Additionally, the Internet Wayback Machine archives many different versions of webs http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://beach.prace.vic.edu.au/

Relevant Web Links

Associated research and presentations

• Latest information about Michael Chalk's research at michalk.id.au/research
• The Flexible Learning Leader (FLL) project, '03, at the Australian Flexible Learning Community, involving Research into Open Source. Here' you will find a different approach to reporting the redevelopment of the site, focussing on the use of open source software, during the 2003 FLL project.
• Presentation at the Twelfth LERN Conference, Granada, June 2005.
• Presentation at the Eleventh LERN Conference (Link broken, site offline), Havana, June 2004.

Recent changes to the Beach site

Latest updates to the English at the Beach web site

Research Reading

Continuing research from michalk.id.au/txt

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