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Creating and sustaining quality e-learning environments of enduring value for teachers and learners

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posted on 2003-01-01, 00:00 authored by Dale Holt, Stephen Segrave
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.

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Pagination

226 - 235

Location

Adelaide, South Australia

Open access

  • Yes

Start date

2003-12-07

End date

2003-12-10

ISBN-13

9780975170205

ISBN-10

0975170201

Language

eng

Publication classification

E1 Full written paper - refereed

Copyright notice

2003, ASCILITE

Editor/Contributor(s)

G Crisp, D Thiele, I Scholten, S Barker, J Baron

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