[Air-l] Technology Transforming Education

[Heidelberg, Chris]

Marj:

Where can I get Lang's book, and how much is it in US dollars?

Chris 

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I wrote about my experiences with the pragmatics of contemporary
education undermining the pedagogical benefits of hybrid teaching in
Brave New Classrooms (Peter Lang 2007) 

It is still an ongoing battle -
"It's online, so there is no problem with space and therefore no need to
limit class sizes" 
"In your hybrid PBL course you only meet students every second week so
you should only get half the worKload points of a colleague who has a
student-led f2f seminar each week"

There are advantages though - initial results suggest that students who
Blog as part of their coursework, are more reflective in discussions and
written assignments for example.

Cheers,
Marj



Dr Marjorie Kibby,
Senior Lecturer in Communication & Culture Faculty of Education and Arts
The University of Newcastle,  Callaghan NSW 2308 Australia
Marj.Kibby at newcastle.edu.au
+61 2 49216604
>>> Steve Jones <sjones at info.comm.uic.edu> 05/23/07 9:16 AM >>>
<snip> One of the things I'm seeing on a lot of campuses the last couple
of years is excitement among administrators about "blended" learning
because it promises to free up classroom space, which ties into two
important administrative matters, namely an interest in increasing
enrollment as a means of increasing revenue, and an interest in keeping
a lid on construction costs (or, in some cases, the cost of leased
space). I agree that those are important matters, but I disagree that
they are sufficient reasons to "re-design" teaching <snip>
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