Programme

Abstract

There is great debate in educational institutes about how tutors can get the best value from technology - utilising it to complement traditional learning whilst being productive with material development endeavours.

The delivery of e-learning isn't simply a matter of sitting down at a computer and becoming an instant e-tutor. Access to technologies, practical IT skills, familiarity with e-learning development environments, etc. are issues that generate a practical intelligence set that most academics feel overwhelmed by. Some see traversing these learning curves of e-tutor empowerment as their path to the e-learning revolution – turning the hype into personal reality.

The presenters of this ‘interactive poster' are working on the development of an e-tutor's road map through teacher-learner engagement at the various levels of the cognitive domain, from simple recall at the lowest level to the more abstract evaluation. They plan to create a framework that maps traditional teaching and learning to a taxonomy of educational objectives, i.e. Blooms, via a third less manifest domain of practical skills, tutorials, guidance, patterns for learning etc.

The ‘interactive poster' will consist of three projectors showing three synchronised presentations of the three domains; traditional teaching and learning, e-reification (turning the substance of T&L into e-learning ‘material') and an educational taxonomy.

Examples of e-learning technologies will be available on a separate PC, e.g. LAMS, Captivate, SMIL. Information documents on the work in progress will be available at the ‘stand' as well as a CD copy of a web site (at present under construction) complementing some of the research, http://www.thelittleproject.com .