James Farmer is the founder of incsub.org – an online community project which includes, among other sites, the fastest growing educational site over the last 6 month, edublogs.org. He lives and works in Melbourne, Australia in media and communications and writes the blog ‘incorporated subversion’.
James’ Masterclass presentation :
“This stuff really works!” – Finally the web grows up in online teaching and learning.
Since the early adoption and use of the internet in education there has been an immense amount of hype and a very limited amount of success. Innovative teachers have explored chat rooms, discussion boards, text based online virtual environments and more in a quest to find effective ways in which technology can support or facilitate better learning outcomes, frequently with frustrating and time-consuming outcomes. However, over the last few years this has started to change. While it would be entirely untrue to suggest that every use of blog related technology has been a triumph (many haven’t), the communication dynamics of these technologies, which have given birth to phenomena such as MySpace, undoubtedly provide great opportunities for authentic and engaging online teaching and learning.
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Michael Coghlan
// Jun 6, 2006 at 1:17 pm
James – you write:
“the communication dynamics of these technologies, which have given birth to phenomena such as MySpace, undoubtedly provide great opportunities for authentic and engaging online teaching and learning.”
Yes, but is anyone doing this as part of a recognised course where it is seen as legitimate educational endeavour, and is perhaps, god forbid, assessed? And if it isn’t assessed, how does anyone know that it is effective learning?
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elida
// Jun 14, 2006 at 1:03 am
I love this site. Good work…
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