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What is Pedagogical Characteristics

Chapter 15
Handbook of Research on Digital Information Technologies: Innovations, Methods, and Ethical Issues
The importance of interactivity in the learning process, the changing role of the teacher from sage to guide, the need for knowledge management skills and for team working abilities, and the move towards resource-based rather than packaged learning.
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Online Pedagogical Effectiveness in Adult Contexts
Robert Dixon (Curtin University of Technology, Australia) and Kathyrn Dixon (Curtin University of Technology, Australia)
Copyright: © 2008 |Pages: 19
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-970-0.ch015
Abstract
A longitudinal study of students in the Training and Development program at Curtin University of Technology has been undertaken in an attempt to develop a framework which describes the dimensions of pedagogical effectiveness in online teaching and learning. The research began in 2004 and data has been collected from the sample group of students in the program from 2004 through to 2007. As a result of analysis and review of the findings, the Online Pedagogical Effectiveness Framework (OPEF) emerged incrementally. The new framework challenges the traditional importance placed on the centrality of teaching skills and the need for student interaction in online teaching and learning, which according to this study, diminished over time. This has ramifications for the interchangeability of the roles of teacher, learner, instructional designer peers and colleagues.
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