Het artikel "Designing course web sites for supporting lecture-based courses in higher education – some pedagogical aspects" is voor de meer ervaren e-learningprofessional weinig vernieuwend. Maar deze publicatie zet wel op een overzichtelijke en redelijk goed onderbouwde manier op een rijtje hoe je een website kunt inzetten als je binnen het hoger onderwijs een face-to-face cursus moet verzorgen. De auteurs maken daarmee m.i. veel impliciete kennis van e-learningprofessionals, expliciet.
However, one inherent advantage of a course web site is the ability to implement four dimensions of “good teaching” – applying active and interactive learning principles, using multimedia, organizing the course and its lessons, and providing immediate feedback to students about their progress. Students must be active and interactive; teachers must organize their courses and the material for the lessons in advance through “trees” that make orientation easy; the software enables easy transmission of feedback, and the web site should be able to assist by providing an option for using multimedia and multiple representation means such as text, charts, graphs, tables, illustrations, pictures, sketches, animations, simulations, equations, light, color, and sound. The rest of the “good teaching” dimensions (Hativa, 2000) – the ability to give (written) clear and interesting presentations and explanations, and the capacity to build a supportive learning environment – depend on the course teacher.
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