Tuesday, 16 October 2007
What does 'embedding' mean?
One of the "hot topics" at the HEA Pathfinder workshop in York that I attended with the University of Leicester's Adelie project was the definition of "embedding" - which was important to the description of what the Pathfinder pilots were asked to do.
How can an institution measure embedding? What does it mean - is it the provision of technology or something much more radical relating to attitudes and blends of learning opportunities?
For me: it is about embedding skills relating to learning technologies into lecturers' (and other staff's) everyday practice of designing, delivering and facilitating learning opportunities.Labels: Adelie, e-learning, elearning, embedding e-learning, HE, online learning, Pathfinder
posted by Helen Whitehead 12:19 PM
Friday, 22 June 2007
Embedding?
At a conference I attended recently, there was much discussion about what "embedding" means in the context of e-learning in Higher Education.
I was thinking maybe we should be talking about "Mbedding" because possibly the whole point is to lose the "e"... Technology should be just one of the tools which teachers use to develop, deliver and facilitate learning, no more or less important than any other. To use technology that way, however, there need to be a lot of things in place - infrastructure and support (including availability of IT experts and learning technologists), training and awareness building, piloting of technologies, and research into the pedagogical aspects of using technology (as there should be research into pedagogical aspects of all learning practices).Labels: embedding e-learning, HE, learning futures, learning technologies, universities
posted by Helen Whitehead 11:18 AM
