Exploring the Potential of Implementing E-Learning Practices at the UG

ISBN-13: 9786204979403 / Angielski / Miękka / 188 str.

Kerwin A. Livingstone

Opis

The University of Guyana, up to the present time (2014), continues to embrace a traditional learning and teaching approach. All educational practices, to a great degree, are out-dated. Face to face contact is the only mode of instructional delivery. Further to this, the conventional Distance Education, via the print-based correspondence mode, is still the current trend. Such a method only favours but a handful of students. As has been revealed by research, such an approach, even if it might engage students, is still teacher-directed and rejects an emancipative, student-centred approach to learning. E-Learning, however, is being universally accepted as the instructional delivery mode which fosters student engagement and emancipation. Consequently, this study seeks to explore the potential of implementing e-learning practices at the University of Guyana. A case is made for the adoption and institutionalisation of technology-based learning and teaching. The findings illuminate that university students and staff (both academic and administrative) are, by and large, (generally) ready for E-Learning. E-Learning has the potential to revolutionise and diversify pedagogical practices.

O autorze

Dr. Kerwin A. Livingstone (PhD), native of Guyana, is an applied linguist, language scientist, and education specialist. He is passionate about the promotion, adoption, and use of ICTs in Education. Dr. Livingstone's desire is for technology-based learning and teaching to be institutionalised in all levels of the Education Sector throughout Guyana.