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The Internet is
increasingly being used by teachers interested in moving towards a student-centred resource-based
approach to teaching and learning. The unique features of the Internet offer exciting
opportunities to learners for greater participation, interaction and collaboration in the
education environment.
The resources listed here will
provide an entry into the world of student-centred teaching practice by way of the
creative use of information technology.
South
African resources
Edutech
Puisano
A joint effort between The Educator and the Department
of Education, this site offers articles and resources relating to the use of
technology in education:
http://www.teacher.co.za/edutech.html
Centre
for Educational Technology and Distance Education (Department
of Education)
The Centre's mission is to
"promote open and lifelong learning through the use of media,
educational technology, libraries and distance education." The web site contains a substantial collection of policy documents
and research reports and links to organizations and online resources in
South Africa and elsewhere:
http://education.pwv.gov.za/teli2/
South
African Institute for Distance Education
The SAIDE web site
offers a wide selection of resources relating to the use of technology in
education, including information about the Telematics
for African Development consortium:
http://www.saide.org.za/
Multimedia
Education Group (University of Cape Town)
MEG develops
computer-based learning resources for selected disciplines. The MEG web site
offers project descriptions and documentation, research papers, and related
resources:
http://www.meg.uct.ac.za/
RAUTEC (RAU Centre for Technology Education and Community
Development)
RAUTEC aims to promote technology awareness and literacy at all levels in South Africa, and offers training from pre-school to tertiary
levels:
http://general.rau.ac.za/cur/rautec/default.htm
General resources
Teaching with Electronic
Technology
Michael Hall, of the University of
Maryland at College Park, maintains this excellent site which offers a large selection of annotated links to general information sites,
examples of institutional support, examples of teaching-with-technology projects, and
resources for teachers across a variety of disciplines:
http://www.wam.umd.edu/~mlhall/teaching.html
Australian Journal of Educational Technology
AJET is a "refereed journal publishing research and review articles in educational
technology, instructional design, educational applications of computer technologies,
educational telecommunications and related areas." Full text articles are available
online about three months after the release of the printed version:
http://cleo.murdoch.edu.au/ajet/
Techknowlogia
Techknowlogia is an online journal
which aims to "explore the vital role of different information
technologies (print, audio, visual and digital) in the development of
human and knowledge capital; share policies,
strategies, experiences and tools in harnessing technologies for knowledge
dissemination, effective learning, and efficient education services; review
the latest systems and products of technologies of today, and peek into
the world of tomorrow; andexchange information about resources, knowledge
networks and centers of expertise." The journal is free of charge,
but users must register:
http://www.techknowlogia.org/
Educause
Educause aims "to help shape and
enable transformational change in higher education through the introduction,
use, and management of information resources and technologies in teaching,
learning, scholarship, research, and institutional management." The
site offers access to a variety of free online documents relating to
technology and higher education:
http://www.educause.edu/
AusWeb
This site offers online access to papers from the annual AusWeb conferences,
which includes an education stream:
http://ausweb.scu.edu.au/
Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in
Tertiary Education
Full-text papers from ASCILITE conferences:
In 2000 the conference focussed on "learning to choose, choosing to
learn." Full text papers are available in PDF format at
http://www.ascilite.org.au/conferences/coffs00/a2k_main_conf04.html
The 1999 conference theme was "responding to
diversity." Full text papers are available in PDF format at
http://www.ascilite.org.au/conferences/brisbane99/papers/papers.htm
The 1998
theme was "flexible delivery using information technology":
http://cedir.uow.edu.au/ASCILITE98/ascpapers98.html
The theme of the 1997 conference was
"the effective and efficient use of IT for teaching in a climate of reduced funding
and accountability for quality learning" include papers on "what works and
why":
http://www.curtin.edu.au/conference/ASCILITE97/
papers-index.html
Thinking about the Internet pedagogically
By Robert Wood of Rutgers University:
http://camden-www.rutgers.edu/~wood/pedagogy.html
EDSITEment
EDSITEment a project of the US National Endowment for Humanities and partner
organizations. The project's web site includes annotated links to top online humanities
educational resources and lesson plans with models for using EDSITEment-listed sites in
the classroom:
http://edsitement.neh.gov/
H-Net's Interactive
Teaching Resources Page
Access to online teaching resources
at
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~envision/interact/
The
World Lecture Hall
This resource, hosted by Texas University, offers links to courseware in a comprehensive range of subjects and topics. The
pages have been created by academics all over the world. The list of offerings is
available at:
http://www.utexas.edu/world/lecture/index.html
NetLearn (The Robert Gordon University)
Annotated links to many useful resources, indicating the medium (e.g.
Web, e-mail), style, and currency of the materials. The site catalogues materials for
learning to use the Internet, teaching with the Internet, and "specialist"
materials such as foreign language resources and resources for the visually impaired.
http://www.rgu.ac.uk/~sim/research/netlearn/callist.htm
NODE
learning technologies network
NODE is a not-for-profit electronic network
supported by a consortium of Ontario higher education institutions. This highly rated site
facilitates information and resource sharing and research in the field of learning
technologies in higher education, and sends out an electronic newsletter.
http://node.on.ca/
Warwick
University's Educational Technology Service
A widely used and popular site in the United Kingdom which gives general support to teachers using educational
technologies, materials, examples/models of the use of IT in teaching and learning, and
technical support including web authoring and design:
http://www.warwick.ac.uk/ETS/Resources/Index.htm
Asynchronous Learning Networks
Based at Vanderbilt University, the ALN Web offers
information resources for asynchronous learning practitioners, including the
full text Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks:
http://www.aln.org/
Teaching
and Learning on the WWW
A premier site with over 600 examples of how the Web is being used as a
medium for learning and teaching. It also provides links to assist you with web authoring
and other technical skills associated with using the Web in teaching. Go to
http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/tl/index.html.
Virtual Resource Site for Teaching with
Technology (UMUC - Bell Atlantic)
This useful site offers two "modules," the first on using the web
to design online courses, the second on delivering online interactive
courses. Although most South African users will struggle to download the
video interviews, the site offers transcripts as well as links to related
resources.
http://www.umuc.edu/virtualteaching/
Journal of Computer Mediated Communication
Full-text articles on CMC topics, including research education.
http://jcmc.huji.ac.il/
Examples of
online teaching
[Many of the
sites listed in the previous section offer links to examples of online
teaching]
Sociology 231: Social Problems (Dr Frank
Elwell, Murray State University)
This site is an excellent example of how the Internet can enrich a course
in a tertiary institution. Dr Frank Elwell’s course on "social problems explored
the links between technological development, population growth, environmental degradation,
social change and disorganization, social inequality, deviance and crime. Both the course
outline syllabus feature links to essays by Elwell, study guides, and previous
exams." (Scout Report for the Social Sciences of 16 December 1997). It is well
illustrated with graphs, maps. statistics and the like. Dr Elwell has also provided online
tests, and also possible essay topics linked to the sections of the syllabus.
http://campus.murraystate.edu/academic/faculty/frank.elwell/
prob3/problems/index.htm
Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics,
University of Cape Town
Main departmental page
http://www.mth.uct.ac.za/
Effective numeracy
This course was designed by an interdisciplinary team of academics to address the poor
levels of numeracy of many university entrants in the humanities and social
sciences; some course materials are available through this site.
http://www.numeracy.uct.ac.za/courses/mam107h/index.html
Tensors and Relativity
http://vishnu.mth.uct.ac.za/omei/gr/
Hotseat
This web site offers additional support to first year UCT mathematics students, providing
on-line tutorials, discussion forums, questionnaires, and advice on study techniques:
http://www.mth.uct.ac.za/Hotseat/hotseat.html
History Department, University of Natal, Durban
This site offers a number of useful and
interesting features: undergraduate web-based research projects, course outlines, and
links to other web sites.
http://www.history.und.ac.za/
Technical
resources and support
Web-Based Training Information Center
This site includes a page of links to web-based training software tools:
http://www.filename.com/wbt/pages/wbttools.htm
Course Server Software for
Online Teaching:
Roger Atkinson of Australia's Murdoch University offers a page of links
to information about software for online course delivery:
http://cleo.murdoch.edu.au/teach/guide/res/examples/
course-servers.html
Listservers relating to the
use of information technology in teaching
The Telematics for African Development
Consortium offers an alerting service-type
listserver:
http://www.saide.org.za/tad/homepage.htm
H-Net sponsors more than 100
free electronic, interactive newsletters edited by scholars all over the globe.
H-MMEDIA "discusses and promotes the
use of multimedia, computers, and the internet for teaching, research, and scholarship in
the humanities and social sciences":
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~mmedia/.
EDTECH was "created to bring
together faculty, educators, students and "interested others" in
the field of educational technology to share ideas and information":
http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~edweb/.
For a full listing of H-Net's discussion lists visit
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/lists/
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