New Technologies in Professional Learning Networks

E-Learning in New Technologies

E-learning and the impact of new technologies across contemporary life is a very significant field to education. The challenge of the technology to conventional learning patterns cannot be ignored and in itself raises a host of questions: can online learning facilitate deep learning? How well does video conferencing alleviate the challenge of distance? In what ways can collaborative learning co...

Can we Leave it to Chance? New Learning Technologies and the Problem of Professional Competence

This paper describes two different university and school collaborations featuring teachers’ and students’ use of online environments. The first example involves a classroom application of a Learning Management System (LMS) to deliver a Year 8 Studies of Society Unit on ‘Rainforests’. This example serves to capture, bracket and examine the ways in which teachers have begun to redefine teaching p...

New Technologies for New Learning Opportunities: Laying the Groundwork for a Successful Professional Development School/University Partnership

1 Healthcare Technologies and Professional

This paper presents some details from an observational evaluation of a computer assisted detection tool in mammography. The use of the tool, its strengths and weaknesses, are documented and its impact on reader's 'professional vision' (Goodwin 1994) considered. The paper suggests issues for the design, use and, importantly, evaluation of new technologies in everyday medical work, pointing to ge...

Early adopters ’ journey into new learning technologies

Th is research explores why academics in Hong Kong embed learning technologies into their teaching despite competing demands at work. Semi-structured interviews were conducted. In embedding learning technologies, some academics reported that they could support learners who were not active in learning better, extend learning opportunities and engage in alternative learning experiences. Others re...