Online Learning Update Ray Schroeder, editor, OTEL - University of Illinois at Springfield

Bobby Approved (v 3.2)
Friday, July 05, 2002

http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=931

What's Your Problem? Web-enhancement in the Humanities Classroom
Susan Hussein

Will educators seize the opportunity offered by new technologies to renew and reinvent the educational process? Or will the daunting process of adapting to unfamiliar instruments tend to get in the way of rethinking the pedagogical strategies and educational models we are putting into practice? Referring to previous work by Bereiter and Scardamalia, Brown (2000) sees the latter possibility as a danger, suggesting that the attractions of "comfort and simplicity" will encourage instructors who cannot face the challenges of growth to adopt strategies characterized by systematic problem minimization and, ultimately, less effective teaching and learning." ...


 



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