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Author(s) -
Philip Barker,
Clive Betts,
Eleri Jones,
Emma Candy,
Graham R. Gibbs,
Alastair Irons,
Nora Mogey,
C. J. Woolston
Publication year - 2011
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.v5i3.10572
Subject(s) - computer science , world wide web , point (geometry) , web 2.0 , multimedia , software , web application , the internet , web standards , web development , geometry , mathematics , programming language
As a result of various paradigm shifts, the World Wide Web (the Web) is changing both what we teach and how we teach it. Consequently, from the point of view of distributing resources, we are now experiencing a significant change of emphasis - from instructor push towards student pull. Web-Teaching is a book about teaching, especially interactive teaching, using the Web as a communications medium. It deals with the kinds of hardware, software and networks commonly used on the Web to deliver and support instruction and learning. Overall, it has two basic thrusts: first, it gives descriptions of what is possible on the Web; second, it identifies instructional strategies that are likely to be effective