Thursday 5 July 2012

Keynote from Professor Diana Lourillard

Professor Laurillard spoke forcefully on the need for educators to engage in learning about the possibilities of new e-learning technologies and applying them creatively in collaboration with learners. Central to her presentation on 'New design tools for teachers as innovators in e-learning' was the encouragement of learners to be self-directed but not without careful and organised guidance by an experienced educator in the skills demanded for independent inquiry and learning. She argued that setting up such programmes may require lengthy planning and construction but there are considerable time-saving rewards after two years. Professor Laurillard also previewed some excellent curriculum and lesson planning technologies to enable collaborative learning between educators.

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  1. "setting up such programmes may require lengthy planning and construction but there are considerable time-saving rewards after two years" - yes I did propose the, but as a model of what COULD happen. I would not try to claim 'there ARE rewards after two years' - there may not be. It depends very much on whether this is a managed process that attends to making sure the benefits of technologies are utilised, the teachers re-used existing resources, and they use more student-only discussion and collaborative activities, summarised for teacher evaluation, to keep their own workload manageable.

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