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Mental tactility: the ascendance of writing in online management education

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posted on 2004-01-01, 00:00 authored by Andrew CreedAndrew Creed, Donald Swanson
A qualitative study of online management education and the role of writing as an indicative measure of thinking and learning. Established educational models, such as Dale's Cone of Experience, are expanded and redeveloped to illustrate the central role of writing as a critical thinking process which appears to be increasing, rather than decreasing, with the advent of online multimedia technology. In an environment of increasing reliance on audiovisual stimulus in online education, the authors contend that tertiary educators may witness an ascendance or re-emergence of writing as central to the academic experience. This may be both supply and demand driven. Drawing on a study of two undergraduate units in the Bachelor of Commerce and applying hermeneutics to develop challenging insights, the authors present a case for educators to remain conversant with the art of teaching writing, and to promote writing to improve educational outcomes.

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Title of proceedings

Beyond the comfort zone : proceedings of the 21st ASCILITE Conference, Perth, 5-8 December

Event

Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education. Conference

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222 - 229

Publisher

ASCILITE

Location

Perth, Western Australia

Place of publication

Perth, W.A.

Start date

2004-12-05

End date

2004-12-08

Language

eng

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Reproduced with the specific permission of the copyright owner.

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E1 Full written paper - refereed

Copyright notice

2004, Andrew Creed & Don Swanson

Editor/Contributor(s)

R Atkinson

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