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Seminar
Important aspects of e-learning and distance teaching.
Speaker: Professor Dr.Dr.h.c.mult. Hermann Maurer.
Institute: Graz University of Technology, Austria,
Chairman of the Board of Hyperwave (www.hyperwave.com), www.iicm.edu/maurer.
Time/Place: 10:00 AM, Fri, 11 April, in Room 031, Erskine Building.
Abstract
In this talk we argue that e-Learning and distance teaching using the WWW has to go much beyond offering some Web-based material with some simple interactivities and communication via email. Features such as customization, elaborate communication features and ideas such as 'active documents' and digital back-ground libraries are essential.
Also, various learning approaches using behaviouristic, cognitivistic or constructionist techniques have to be supported. Indeed it is argued that e-Learning should really be seen as knowledge-transfer, hence as one sub-aspect of what is today called 'knowledge management'. A brief discussion of what this means is included in the talk, and novel developments are pointed out.
It is also mentioned that fairly fancy systems for this mode of distance teaching do indeed exist.
Biography
(note: "Dr. Dr.hc.mult" does not refer to e.g. a doctorate in human computing and multimedia; instead it means that the speaker has multiple honorary doctorates - highly desirable :)
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