The online learning alchemist : preventing gold turning into lead
Sims, Rod 2001, The online learning alchemist : preventing gold turning into lead, in ED-Media 2001 : Proceedings of the World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications, Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education, [Tampere, Finland], pp. 1558-1563.
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The online learning alchemist : preventing gold turning into lead
Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education
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[Tampere, Finland]
Summary
This paper addresses the creation of materials and resources for use in online learning, focusing on the new and emerging roles for teachers and learners in conjunction with developments in our understanding of the human-computer interface. As more educational providers adopt network-based technologies as delivery portals, the demand for skills in the creation of effective online resources is becoming critical. If we are to provide the learner with online resources that will enhance knowledge construction and the teacher with clear measures that these activities are effective, then we as resource developers must resurrect the role of what might be termed the online alchemist. Our first task is to ensure that new digital resources are not simply transferred from their original format but repurposed to ensure learner(s) accessing those resources are able to interact with both the content and their collaborative partners with new levels of flexibility and manipulation. We must transcend the too frequent use of technology as a means to replicate existing resources and conceptualise environments that engender new paradigms for teaching and learning. Our challenge remains to ensure the gold we have in effective teaching strategies and learning resources is not tarnished through ineffective applications within the online learning context. One strategy to achieve this is through proactive evaluation, a framework that integrates a set of factors and influences to better inform the development of online learning resources.
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