Open AccessWeb-based lecture technologies: blurring the boundaries between face-to-face and distance learning
Author(s) -
Karen Woo,
Maree Gosper,
Margot McNeill,
Greg Preston,
David Green,
Rob Phillips
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
research in learning technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.52
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 2156-7077
pISSN - 2156-7069
DOI - 10.3402/rlt.v16i2.10887
Subject(s) - popularity , perception , face (sociological concept) , boundary (topology) , distance education , web application , computer science , selection (genetic algorithm) , psychology , multimedia , mathematics education , world wide web , sociology , mathematics , artificial intelligence , social psychology , social science , mathematical analysis , neuroscience
Web-based lecture technologies (WBLT) have gained popularity amongst universities in Australia as a tool for delivering lecture recordings to students in close to real time. This paper reports on a selection of results from a larger research project investigating the impact of WBLT on teaching and learning. Results show that while staff see the advantages for external students, they question the extent to which these advantages apply to internal students. In contrast both cohorts of students were positive about the benefits of the technologies for their learning and they adopted similar strategies for their use. With the help of other technologies, some external students and staff even found WBLT useful for fostering communication between internal and external students. As such, while the traditional boundary between internal and external students seems to remain for some staff, students seem to find the boundary much less clear