Area: | Department of Media and Information |
Credits: | 25.0 |
Contact Hours: | 2.0 |
Individual Study: | 1 x 2 Hours Weekly |
Syllabus: | Motivations and opportunities for Internet-based learning, especially in higher education. Educational principles - student-centred learning, active learning, and constructivist epistemologies. Key techniques for using websites and computer-mediated communication. Administration, management and evaluation of IBL. Problems and barriers to be overcome, skills and resources needed. Strategies - hypertext, synchronising groups and individuals, communities, assessment, searching and storing. |
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Unit Outcomes: | On successful completion of this unit students will- Understand developing, implementing internet-based learning, based on educational principles. Have a range of strategies involving technologies of communication and information publishing for more effective student learning. Maintain their knowledge of educational issues via the internet. Manage their own use of the internet for internet-based learning and assist others in this respect. |
Unit Texts: | Internet-based information sources: especially Internet learning Construction Kit (currently under development with CEA). |
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Unit Assessment Breakdown: | This is by Grade/Mark Assessment. |
Field of Education: | 100700 Communication and Media Studies (Narrow Grouping) | HECS Band (if applicable): | 1 |
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Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information: | Fully Online | Result Type: | Grade/Mark |
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Availability
| Year | Location | Period | Internal | Area External | Central External | | 2004 | Bentley Campus | Semester 1 | Y | Y | | | 2004 | Bentley Campus | Semester 2 | Y | Y | |
Area
External | refers to external course/units run by the School or Department, offered online or through Web CT, or offered by research. |
Central
External | refers to external course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area |
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