“New technologies offer new opportunities for educators to increase learner engagement and improve the overall value of the learning experience.” (Source: George Siemens)
George Siemens – Photo credit: Dean Shareski
Is your university or college using Facebook, wikis, podcasts, or other social media technologies to communicate, interact and engage with its students?
Educational technologies expert George Siemens, focuses once more on the relevance collaboration technologies have in shaping today learning. While collaborative tools and new media technologies provide great help in supporting teachers’ work and in helping learners interact and share their personal discoveries, their use should not be driven toward envisaging them as a total replacement of existing educational approaches but rather as extensions of it.
What technology is supposed to do instead, is to serve as a walking stick to provide learners with the ability to collaborate, confront and exchange ideas to make a better and more complete sense of [...]
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