The Learning Development Team: Three developers, one pedagogy

Towards the Development of a Team Learning Theory for Information Systems: Implications for Universities, Academics, and Academic Developers

The concept of a teaching portfolio in higher education is not new. However, for many teaching staff the concept of a digital or electronic teaching portfolio is very new a perspective that cannot be ignored. Academic developers have a role to play in their institutions in making the concept of a digital portfolio understood by staff, and making transparent the many and varied options available...

Take One - or Three - for the Team: Consumerism as Play

With the expansion of consciousness driven by further discovery and creation of the digital realm, scholars have witnessed the birth of societal structures and cultures, originally found in the physical realm, within the digital realm. This has been documented mainly in the creation of communities within MMORPGs and synthetic worlds 1 [1]. Although these communities are defined as being based a...

Pedagogy in e-learning Development: Some Lessons from History

Free Culture A free culture supports and protects creators and innovators. It does this directly by granting intellectual property rights. But it does this indirectly by limiting the reach of those rights, to guarantee that follow-on creators and innovators remain as free as possible from the control of the past. ...The opposite of a free culture is permission culture – a culture in which creat...

E-Learning Professional Development: 'Re-Envisioning' pedagogy in schools

In search of ‘authentic pedagogy’ our longitudinal three year study (2002-04, funded by the Australian Research Council Linkage Scheme) with children and teachers in Years 3, 5 and 7 of Tasmanian Government and Catholic Education Schools is providing a rich data set from teacher questionnaires and classroom observations. The problem is to identify the variables and their relationships in the sp...

Team Structure in the Development of Game-based Learning Environments