Rethinking university teaching : a framework for the effective use of learning technologies

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Title:

Author:

Laurillard, Diana, 1948-

ISBN:

9780415256780

9780415256797

Personal Author:

Laurillard, Diana, 1948-

Edition:

2nd ed.

Publication Information:

London ; New York : RoutledgeFalmer, 2002.

Physical Description:

p. cm.

Contents:

Pt. I. What students need from learning technologies -- 1. Teaching as mediating learning -- 2. What students bring to learning -- 3. The complexity of coming to know -- 4. Generating a teaching strategy -- Pt. II. Analysing the media for learning and teaching -- 5. Narrative media -- 6. Interactive media -- 7. Adaptive media -- 8. Communicative media -- 9. Productive media -- Pt. III. The design methodology -- 10. Designing teaching materials -- 11. Setting up the learning context -- 12. Designing an effective organisational infrastructure -- App. 1. Extract from Plato's Meno Dialogue -- App. 2. Subject teaching journals available on the Web -- App. 3. Summary of activities for an effective organisational infrastructure.

Abstract:

Teachers in higher education have had to become more professional in their approach to teaching, matching their professionalism in research. The first edition of this book prepares teachers to do and undergo quality audits and appraisals, and to achieve their personal aims of improving their teaching and their students' learning. The strength of this book is that it provides a sound theoretical basis for designing and using learning technologies in university teaching.This new edition builds upon the success of the first and contains major updates to the information on learning technologies and includes the implications of using technology for the university context - both campus and electronic - which suggests a new approach to managing learning at institutional level.

Subject Term:

College teaching.

Instructional systems -- Design.

Educational technology.

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Teachers in higher education have had to become more professional in their approach to teaching, matching their professionalism in research. The first edition of this book prepares teachers to do and undergo quality audits and appraisals, and to achieve their personal aims of improving their teaching and their students' learning. The strength of this book is that it provides a sound theoretical basis for designing and using learning technologies in university teaching.
This new edition builds upon the success of the first and contains major updates to the information on learning technologies and includes the implications of using technology for the university context - both campus and electronic - which suggests a new approach to managing learning at institutional level.