文档介绍：Building munities in Cyberspace
“Effective strategies for the online classroom”
By Rena Palloff and Keith Pratt
Online learning:
“separation of instructor and learner in space and time”
with connections through educational media
where the learner takes an active role in the learning process.
It is up to the student to make sense of the body of knowledge associated with the course being delivered. The instructor supports this process through the use of collaborative assignments, facilitation of active discussion, and promotion of the development of critical thinking and research skills.
The goal is not to jump on the high tech bandwagon just to transmit a tired and stale pedagogy over fiber. Technology by itself cannot transform the pedagogy.
The Learning Web
Quotes:
“It is not curriculum we are converting, but our pedagogy.”
It’s a paradigm shift regarding the whole mode of delivery.
“Technology does not teach students, effective teachers do”.
“Learning about technology by using it”
Learning through the use of technology allows participants to explore its use in more general terms. Students participating regularly in an online course cannot help but improve their ability to use technology with confidence.
Software and hardware are only vehicles in the creation of an environment that is conducive to learning.
In a virtual learning environment, the teacher trul