Here's an interesting article that argues that most instructors rely on the built-in instructivist pedagogy of course management systems rather than exploiting the more creative possibilities. Lisa Lane argues,
"most college instructors do not work or play much on the Web, and thus utilize Web–based systems primarily at their basic level. The defaults of the CMS therefore tend to determine the way Web–novice faculty teach online, encouraging methods based on posting of material and engendering usage that focuses on administrative tasks. A solution to this underutilization of the CMS is to focus on pedagogy for Web–novice faculty and allow a choice of CMS."
Insidious Pedagogy: How Course Management Systems Impact Teaching
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The use of new tools, like prezi (thanks @acoolidge) and twitterfall to engage and enable the educational audience is incredibly powerful.
But more importantly they make the educator's job more fun, creative and memorable. A Prezi {http://prezi.com can be saved to a USB, a hard drive, emailed to oneself, shown from the web, embedded, or tweeted. This ensures things are available to students and accessible to educators.
Twitterfall or a classroom Yammer, even a social bookmarking page for the class like delicious (thanks @trenzullo for that). These ideas are the tip of the iceberg.
The most important thing these new tools can do is teach students. Teach students how to use the tools. Teach students the subject matter in a relevant way and make learning easier. Make accessing further readings aka links simpler.
Imagine the possibilities of a friendfeed for a course. The world could take the course in real time.
Is that bad or good? Or both? Does it threaten the value of educators?
This comment has also been posted on my blog: http://socmedevanger.blogspot.com
I use Andrew Churches Digital Blooms http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/Bloom%27s+and+ICT+tools
and Visual Bloom's http://visualblooms.wikispaces.com/ to help faculty make choices about what tools and activities to use online.Medicine is very objective oriented, so they are receptive to the concept of activities matching the objective.
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