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

Bobby Approved (v 3.2)
Saturday, October 12, 2002

http://www.usdla.org/html/journal/OCT02_Issue/article04.html

Courses for e-Teachers and Course Designers
Anita Pincas

ABSTRACT: The paper will highlight the relevant objectives of training for e-course planners, either staff wishing to initiate e-teaching themselves, or intending to become members of e-learning development teams. Proposed objectives are based on the writer’s twelve years of experience in the field of online teaching, and data is drawn from the ten year old international online Certificate in Online Education and Training which she conceived and still runs for the Institute of Education of the University of London, UK. The principal theme is that such training should include focus on the important time-honoured role of the teacher, as contrasted with a moderator. A second important theme is that e-training courses are best seen as workplace learning and therefore need to be balanced towards immediate practical relevance, rather than theory....

 



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