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Using Technology to
Improve Teaching and
Learning
Beth Cavallari
Acting Associate Director
Why use technology?
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Interactivity
Content delivery/revision
Managing learning and resources
Collaboration
Communication
Sense of cohort
Variety of teaching and learning preferences
Formative and summative assessment
How does this help?
• Allows students more control of their own learning
• Allows lecturers to guide more, teach less
• Allows student to build up knowledge, and become
part of the teaching process
• Can provide some really engaging learning
experiences
• Teachers can provide “scaffolding” and safety nets
• “At risk” students can be identified more quickly
• Collaborating can be very well supported
Students’ Experiences (1998)
‘We have excellent hardware and software but the
lecturers don’t use it much for teaching. Some of
them put their lecture notes on the Web.’ (Multimedia
Student)
‘All Computing Science subjects have lecture notes
on the Web, but none of the other subjects use
computers at all, which is just as well because the
machines crash all the time.’ (Computing Science Student)
Students’ Experiences (1998)
‘I expected to have to use computers all the time. In
fact, we rarely use them, not even in subjects like
accounting, where we have to do everything
manually.’ (Commerce Student)
Students’ Experiences (2008)
‘Computer use is essential in all courses. We have
access to course notes, essays, past exams,
electronic journals, the course handbook and course
overview. We often use email to communicate with
other students, lecturers and tutors.’ (History Student)
Students’ Experiences (2008)
‘Blackboard, PowerPoint, emails and electronic
journals are used very effectively, but nothing very
innovative happens. There was some online
assessment in first year.’ (Commerce Student)
‘Smaller class sizes in Science meant less use of
PowerPoint than in some of my other courses. There
is very mixed use of technology, depending on the
skills of the lecturer. Some lecturers are useless and
upload the wrong files, or their files don’t work.’
(Science Student)
Students’ Experiences
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o
Technology Development Cycle
• What’s the problem?
• What’s the best way of tackling it? (Can technology
help?)
• Planning
• Development
• Testing
• Evaluation
• Improving
What can TEDI do?
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CDs
Websites
Blackboard sites
Web-CD combinations
DVDs
Print
Planning, educational advice, Project Management
• http://www.tedi.uq.edu.au/edResources/what-cd.html
CDs
Websites
Educational Design
• To support use of the newer “social” websites —
– Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/
– MySpace:
http://www.myspace.com/
– YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/
– Second Life:
http://secondlife.com/
Maintenance
• How is it possible to maintain your technology once
you’re involved in it?
• How much time are you expected to put in?
• How (and to whom) can you share this?
• Shelf-life
• Life of product/project after YOU
Cost
Warnings…
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Time to plan
Time to develop
Time to evaluate
Time to be involved
Obsession/addiction
Use of students’ private, social spaces
Authenticity/authority of web content…
Authenticity of web content…
Minke whale population is estimated to be:
a) 880,000 (Library of Congress)
b) 550,000 (Marine Mammal Research Program HIMB, University of
Hawaii at Manoa)
c) 760,000
(International Whaling Commission)