New report from JISC – Effective Practice in a Digital Age:
The skill of the practitioner remains key to the effectiveness of learning – an unchangeable factor in a context of rapid change. However, practitioners now need to understand how to draw advantage from an increasingly diverse range of tools and media and select the most suited to their purpose; the appropriate integration or blending of technology-mediated activities with face-to-face learning and teaching is an important dimension of 21st century practice. When designing learning, practitioners must also be aware of the impact of technology on the way learners learn and make explicit for them the most effective learning strategies.
To further understanding of how technology may be best used in support of learning and teaching, Effective Practice in a Digital Age combines the work of individual innovators in institutional contexts with knowledge gained from JISC-funded programmes of research into the pedagogic potential of technology and into the factors involved in technology-mediated practice.
The report has sections on the use of VLE’s, blended learning, podcasting, and virtual worlds (talking to Anna Peachey of the Open University, with examples from her classes). This is extended with a range of videos and podcasts on the resource exchange page. The report is available as a free download, and you can order hard copies from the JISC site.
