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Evaluation and design of technologies to meet learning outcomes
Author(s) -
Sharpe R.,
Bailey P.
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
journal of computer assisted learning
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.583
H-Index - 93
eISSN - 1365-2729
pISSN - 0266-4909
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-2729.1999.153092.x
Subject(s) - accreditation , professional development , teaching and learning center , faculty development , open learning , educational technology , distance education , higher education , computer science , knowledge management , teaching method , medical education , engineering management , psychology , pedagogy , engineering , cooperative learning , political science , medicine , law
Professional development for staff in higher education is developing rapidly in response to current national developments. As staff seek support and development to cope with the changes in their students, appropriate teaching, learning and assessment methods and rising use of learning technologies, institutions must be in a position to provide relevant programmes of development. Increasingly staff will be required to give evidence of their own development and institutions should be able to offer suitable and accessible systems which allow them to easily document their progress and gain accreditation. Two case studies are presented: the first uses the outcomes of a graduate teaching assistants course to evaluate the effectiveness of using a computer conferencing system. The second case study uses outcomes to redesign, to a web‐based open learning system, the teaching and learning in a higher education course for teaching staff.