Perceptions of E-Learning

ISBN-13: 9783838340029 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 136 str.

Douglas Colbeck

Opis

Flexible E-learning aims to develop students capabilities as information- literate lifelong learners, as well as their knowledge and skills in a variety of subject areas. It uses a rich array of resource-based learning techniques and project-based pedagogy to respond flexibly, in a multi-media environment, to the increasingly diverse backgrounds and motivations that learners bring to their study. A wide variety of reports and research indicate that flexible E-learning is now a worldwide phenomenon, with long-term implications for all types of educational institutions. Traditional school-based approaches to teaching, on their own, cannot hope to meet such a demand. Alternatives based on digital technologies are essential, not optional. In this new E-learning environment, knowledge becomes a modularised product, giving learners unprecedented control over the content, place, time, and pace of their learning. This research provides insight into some of the issues facing educators within the Tasmanian Education Department.

O autorze

Doug Colbeck, PhD: is an Educational Developer with the Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning, at the University of Tasmania, Australia. His background is in computer science and he has spent several years as an international unit coordinator, lecturing at various universities across the Peoples Republic of China.