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Saturday, February 04, 2006
Breaking the Barriers of Time and Space: More Effective Teaching Using e-Pedagogy - Peshe Kuriloff, Innovate Online
When a plane breaks the sound barrier, the noise reverberates for miles around. The advent of e-pedagogy produced no sonic boom, but the message educators are getting rings loud and clear. Technology is a potentially powerful tool for more effective teaching and deeper learning. Used wisely and well, it may break down barriers to learning that traditional classroom-based instruction has unintentionally created. Many educators identify time and space as assets to classroom-based teaching and view computer-based instruction simply as an alternative delivery system for traditional pedagogy instead of a tool for implementing new pedagogy. Because face-to-face, real-time interactions offer immediacy, personal contact, and community—all highly regarded features of a positive learning environment—instructors creating courses for online delivery have commonly considered the absence of face-to-face interaction a loss and have struggled to compensate for that loss. Experience shows, however, that there is a negative side to the time and space constraints of traditional classrooms. The opportunity to extend time and to reconfigure space in the online classroom creates the potential to improve teaching and enhance learning in unique ways.
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