Can we Leave it to Chance? New Learning Technologies and the Problem of Professional Competence
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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 practice, and to document the ways in which students experience this change in teaching. The second example documents feedback from a formal hands-on professional development program for teachers where follow up support was offered on-line, using the same LMS.
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