Re: instructional design
Fatemeh Bagherian (fbagheri who-is-at ccs.carleton.ca)
Fri, 10 Oct 1997 12:58:05 -0400 (EDT)
A.K.Tolmie writes:
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> >My interests are more along the line of 1) how does the
> >technology get inserted in the social relationships among teachers and
> >learners, and 2) how does technological design reproduce
> >culture--especially "old" notions such as the authority of the teacher,
> >the interchangeability of students, etc. Part of this agenda is to
> >understand how more humane--culturally and environmentally aware--values
> >can be incorportated into the design of technopedagogy (see below). This
> >entire area is fairly new to me. I'd like to know if anyone is doing
> >research related to technopedagogy at the post high-school level.
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As a lurcker of xmca, I found your interest and your questions relevant to
what I am trying to do for my thesis. My thesis is going to be an
evaluation of computer-maediated-communication technology at university
level and its usefulness for undergraduate courses. There are locations
on Internet called coursenewsgroups at Carleton University net that allow
students and instructors to discuss about their course materials. My study is
an investigation of what is going on in these net discussions and compare
them with traditional discussion groups or seminar classes. I am trying
to find out how much the potential benefits of the communication
technology has been realized and used at university level and how
students and instructors think about its usefullness.
To add the experience of the use of technology in education, I am running a
discussion group via computer-communication for a social psychology course
that I am the TA for as well. As mentioned by perhaps Linnda or Mike, there
are few research in this area at post hight school level. The one I found
interesting is the one by Scott Althaus published in Communication
Education just in July 1997.
Fatemeh Bagherian
Carleton University
Dept. Of Psychology