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Alternative Modes of Teaching and Learning

Alternative modes of delivery

Computer-based Teaching and Learning (CBL/CBT)

Definition

COMPUTER ASSISTED INSTRUCTION
Interactive instructional technique in which a computer is used to present instructional material, monitor learning, and select additional instructional material in accordance with individual learner needs

from ERIC Search Wizard 2.0
http://ericir.syr.edu/

Advantages

Possibility of accessing material and communicating with other teachers and learners at time to suit the learner
Possibility of communicating at a distance
Allows time to reflect and edit contributions to on-line discussions thus equalising opportunities to participate
Allows access to a wide range of international resources
Allows for the possibility of more student-centred learning at a distance
Allows for the circulation of documents for collaborative construction

Disadvantages

Unequal access to technology may hinder full participation
Face to face feedback clues are lost causing potential misunderstanding between participants
Still a potential for people to feel inhibited about participation because of the quantity if not the quality of others' contributions
Pressures to respond to real time communications may inhibit some participants, this can be made worse by the volume of traffic experienced
May inhibit the oral contributor who would prefer face to face discussion

Resources and References

Computers as Tutors: Solving the Crisis in Education
Parts I, II, III

http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue6/intro/index.html

Computers as Tutors: Solving the Crisis in Education
Parts IV, V, VI

http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue7/index.html

Confronting Technology - Related Links

http://www.public.iastate.edu/~lmonke/links.html

Education Uses of Information Technology

http://www.scs.ryerson.ca/dmason/common/euit.html

Educom
Transforming Education Through Information Technology

http://www.educom.edu/

Evaluating Computer-Related Work in the Modern Languages: Draft Guidelines Prepared by the MLA Committee on Computers and Emerging Technologies in Teaching and Research.
Modern Language Association

http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/mla.guidelines.html

Human-Computer Interaction Virtual Library

http://www.usableweb.com/hcivl/

Intelligent Computer Assisted Instruction--Main Page

http://www.brooks.af.mil/AL/HR/ICAI/icai2.htm

Journal of Computer Assisted Learning

http://www.lancs.ac.uk/users/ktru/jcaljrnl.htm

Reeves: Evaluating What Really Matters in Computer-Based Education

http://iq.orst.edu/presentations/edmedia/docs/reeves.html

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