TY - GEN
T1 - Old dogs and new e-tricks
T2 - International Conference on Computers in Education, ICCE 2002
AU - Lautenbach, G.
AU - Van Der Westhuizen, D.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2002 IEEE.
PY - 2002
Y1 - 2002
N2 - This paper reports on a study in progress at RAU University (RAU) in Johannesburg, South Africa. Participants in the study are online lecturers at RAU who consider themselves to be experienced face-to-face instructors. Since 1998, progressive updates of WebCT™ have been implemented at RAU to support a growing number of instructors embracing the new multimodal approach to teaching. In many cases, being able to use the available technologies has become a necessity rather than a matter of choice, but even though technology has found general acceptance at RAU, change has come slowly. This study identifies the central role that staff (faculty) can play in this process of change through a process of action research. This process cannot be seen as a top down process, but rather a complex one in which the online instructor is very active. Initial findings have identified that higher education technology strategies ignore the central role that staff (faculty) can play in the change process.
AB - This paper reports on a study in progress at RAU University (RAU) in Johannesburg, South Africa. Participants in the study are online lecturers at RAU who consider themselves to be experienced face-to-face instructors. Since 1998, progressive updates of WebCT™ have been implemented at RAU to support a growing number of instructors embracing the new multimodal approach to teaching. In many cases, being able to use the available technologies has become a necessity rather than a matter of choice, but even though technology has found general acceptance at RAU, change has come slowly. This study identifies the central role that staff (faculty) can play in this process of change through a process of action research. This process cannot be seen as a top down process, but rather a complex one in which the online instructor is very active. Initial findings have identified that higher education technology strategies ignore the central role that staff (faculty) can play in the change process.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84964501821&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/CIE.2002.1186244
DO - 10.1109/CIE.2002.1186244
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84964501821
T3 - Proceedings - International Conference on Computers in Education, ICCE 2002
SP - 1348
EP - 1349
BT - Proceedings - International Conference on Computers in Education, ICCE 2002
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Y2 - 3 December 2002 through 6 December 2002
ER -
