The Graduate Diploma in Education Technology: the Development of an Online Programme
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The Graduate Diploma in Education Technology (GDipEdTech) was developed in 1993 as an open and distance programme to meet the needs of teachers in the primary, secondary and tertiary sectors. The programme aims to integrate the use of new and emerging technologies into their classroom programmes. It has gone through a number of developments in order to keep pace with changing technologies. From being a largely print-based programme, augmented by First Class communication software, it has moved to one that has been fully operational online since 1997. It was first developed using HTML. At the end of 1999 the programme was transferred into a commercial online course shell, Blackboard. This development has meant a challenge for the Programme Leader and lecturers to present a programme that takes account of contemporary learning theories, adapting them to an online learning environment. They must keep abreast of parallel developments in both web-based technologies and online teaching techniques.
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