Creating and sustaining quality e-learning environments of enduring value for teachers and learners
Holt, Dale and Segrave, Stephen 2003, Creating and sustaining quality e-learning environments of enduring value for teachers and learners, in Interact, integrate, impact : proceedings of the 20th annual conference of the Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (ASCILITE), Adelaide, Australia 7-10 December 2003, Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education, Wollongong, N.S.W., pp. 226-235.
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Creating and sustaining quality e-learning environments of enduring value for teachers and learners
Interact, integrate, impact : proceedings of the 20th annual conference of the Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (ASCILITE), Adelaide, Australia 7-10 December 2003
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Crisp, Geoffrey Thiele, Di Scholten, Ingrid Barker, Sandra Baron, Judi
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2003
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226
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235
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Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education
Australian universities continue staking a claim on the future of e-learning, acquiring Learning Management Systems (LMS) as rapidly as universities overseas. Much is published on processes and criteria for selecting the best LMS for an organisation's needs and attempts to establish training and support mechanisms for deploying these systems. Beyond initial efforts to commission these technologies, particularly in the hands of teachers and students, what should happen to ensure these commitments yield real educational value in the long term? The search for and realisation of systemic and substantial new value requires a more profound reconceptualisation of what it means to design and work within contemporary learning environments, incorporating e-learning, in support of excellence in educational outcomes. This demands the foregrounding of the role of the academic teacher in the system in relation to other parties who can make important educational contributions in support of student learning. Central to new strategies is a transformation of the role of academic teacher, but on terms understood by them and supportive of their educational values. Six areas of value creation for teachers and learners are considered in relation to this transformation.