Distance Online Education & Training

Course Code: DDOPRO_39

Honours Level Module

This module is available by e-learning [10 weeks] or over 5 weeks as 'blended' learning. It provides an e-learning experience, as well as the opportunity to investigate the relevance of new technologies to education. It will focus especially on essential principles of teaching, learning, lesson planning, and course design as they can be supported by technology. It presents a systematic approach, and stimulates a critical appraisal of on-site as well as distance study, viewing the various technologies as teaching aids, rather than a set of technical gadgets demanding to be used. Participants will gain a clear vision of the scope of ICT for education and an improved understanding of the relation between technology and pedagogy. Participants are advised to write an essay that can form the basis of something that will be of practical value to themselves professionally, such as a proposal for a new course design, an academic paper on their action research, a review of a selection of literature of their choice, a short account of a new development involving ICT, etc., and/or a reflective account of their own learning during the e-learning process of the course itself.

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