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Using Technology in Learner-Centered Education: Proven Strategies for Teaching and Learning focuses upon five proven strategies for improving teaching and learning and, through many examples, cites practical ways the Internet can supplement face-to-face instructional activities.

Most students now have access to the Internet. Faculty, teachers, trainers, and students want to take advantage of this new, very powerful, communication tool. This book suggests how courses are being redesigned to take advantage of the Internet. The focus of Using Technology in Learner-Centered Education: Proven Strategies for Teaching and Learning is on the practical application of educational convictions through five specific strategies—preview and review, continuous communication, controversy and debate, involvement of others, and different strokes for different folks.

In six “quick-study” lessons, the focus is upon simple technologies like group email and internet browsing. Avoided are course elements that require long learning times and advanced computer skills. This is a book more about teaching strategies than technology. It is more about supplementing face-to-face instructional activities than Internet-only distance learning. It is more about improving teaching than learning technology.

• The Garden Tools Metaphor (page 2)—this approach to the improvement of teaching suggests that we have suddenly been delivered a set of new tools and now must decide, without losing a crop, which ones will work best for us, and we don't have a lot of extra time to experiment.

• The Course Management Tool (page 10)—a quick understanding of file-cabinets-in-the-sky is a prerequisite for using computers effectively and efficiently in instruction. Here we explain the basics in just one page.

• The focus is on teaching strategies, not esoteric theory and not nuts-and-bolts software (page 14).

• Ideas for using group email (page 23). Instructors can become users of technology with almost no learning time invested.

Higher Education  (Curriculum & Instruction)
Higher Education  (Curriculum & Instruction)

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