A Passport to Flexible Learning: An Orientation Program Designed To Introduce First Year University Students to Interactive Teaching Technologies.

Autor/in	Thompson, Robert
Titel	A Passport to Flexible Learning: An Orientation Program Designed To Introduce First Year University Students to Interactive Teaching Technologies.
Quelle	(2000), (12 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Adjustment (to Environment); Adult Learning; College Freshmen; Computer Uses in Education; Delivery Systems; Educational Environment; Educational Technology; Electronic Mail; Experiential Learning; Flexible Progression; Foreign Countries; Higher Education; Information Retrieval; Information Seeking; Interactive Video; Internet; Learner Controlled Instruction; Online Catalogs; Online Systems; Orientation; Program Development; Program Effectiveness; Teleconferencing; Workshops; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Adulte education; Adult training; Erwachsenenbildung; Studienanfänger; Computernutzung; Auslieferung; Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt; Unterrichtsmedien; Elektronischer Briefkasten; Experiental learning; Erfahrungsorientiertes Lernen; Ausland; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Informationserschließung; Interaktives Video; Online catalog; Online catalogue; Online catalogues; Online-Katalog; Online; Orientierung; Programmplanung; Telekonferenz; Lernwerkstatt; Schulung; Australien
Abstract	Central Queensland University in Australia has developed an orientation program to introduce first-year university students to interactive teaching technologies. The program, called Passport to Flexible Learning, was organized in the form of workshops that run concurrently over a 5-day period during the university's orientation week. During the workshops, participants acquired hands-on experience with a range of interactive teaching technologies. During the workshops, students were required to complete the following activities: participate in large-screen and small-screen videoconferences, a teleconference, and an audiographic session; summarize the main points from a tutored video instruction lecture; communicate via e-mail; download data from the Internet; and search and locate information from on-line library catalogues. A total of 400 internal and external students and 20 academic and general staff from a number of faculties and divisions participated in the program. Upon successful completion of the program, students received a passport documenting their participation in a range of activities representative of the world of electronic classrooms. Students who completed the program credited the workshops with increasing their knowledge and basic understanding of communication technologies and greatly increasing their confidence in interfacing with various media and participating in learning involving interactive technology. (Contains 20 references.) (MN)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC