eLearning in Higher Education: Pedagogy and Policies

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eLearning in Higher Education Pedagogy and
Policies

• On-Campus vs Off-Campus
• Cost
• Online Resources
• Online Support
• Courseware
• Improving Pedagogy
• Questions

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On-Campus vs Off-Campus

• On-Campus
• Class Management Resources
• One-way
• Off-campus
• Class Management Resources SUPPORT
• Highly Time and Place Independent
• Collaborative Pedagogy
• Why use collaboratively on-campus?

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Cost (Off-Campus)

• Second-Generation Distance Teaching
• Teaching Resources (esp Texts)
• Occasional Tutorial Support
• eLearning - Resources
• Diverse Online Resources
• May reduce cost
• eLearning - Support
• Increase Cost?

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Online Support

• some reports indicate that teachers spend up to
  twice as long, overall, to deliver a course via
  computer conferencing as they do to give a course
  using traditional means (Romiszowski and Ravitz
  1997)
• "The biggest and I suggest least costed
  ingredient in the costs of online learning is the
  cost of supporting learners online" (Rumble 1999)

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What can be done?

• Limit Time
• FAQs
• High Quality Courseware
• Learning Objects
• Pedagogical Techniques
• Empower Students Promote Autonomy
• Trade-Off between Resources Cost and Support Cost?

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Online Support

• Pedagogical Advantages
• Interactivity
• Reflection
• Collaboration
• New Ways of Teaching/Learning
• Constructivist
• Social-Cultural
• Collaborative

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Successful eLearning

• The shortest summary of our findings of what
  makes for quality on-line courses is, Its the
  pedagogy, stupid! Far from there being no more
  costly professors, on-line courses represent an
  arena of struggle between those who see them as a
  way of maximizing profit versus those who see
  them as way of improving quality as well as
  access to education. (Hiltz et al, 2000)

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Questions

• Future of eLearning on-campus?
• Can eLearning improve quality at reasonable cost?
• Is this a role for courseware in HE?
• What are eLearnings niches (Subject Areas
  Programmes, Audiences, etc.)?
• Does eLearning have a future in HE?