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Integrating worldware in blended learning environments
Andrew Deacon & Jacob Jaftha (Multimedia Education Group, University of Cape Town)
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At residential universities there have always been courses incorporating elements traditionally associated with distance-style and more traditional face-to-face modes of teaching. Educators though simply see these as pragmatic ways of teaching and rarely use labels such as blended, flexible learning or e-learning. While there have been rapid developments in providing generic software tools, often integrated in course management systems, to support and encourage such blended approaches these are also sometimes perceived as constraining rather than liberating pedagogically driven design of courses. We describe such a scenario, involving tutorial style learning, where the difficulty is managing the tutorial workflows. Supporting tutorial workflows is important in order to for example support automate assessment and to free tutors from tedious marking so they actively support student learning. In our scenario we show how worldware, the widely used software applications such as Excel, can be integrated into campus wide learning environments to support more flexible forms of blending. These scaffoled tutorial activities are an important part of a residential university education that often requires specialised technology support. Currently, course management systems designed primarily to support distance modes of teaching, have little support for the types of tutorial-style activities. Fortunately, support integrating the needs of tutorial activities is being recognised in new generation course management systems and is already part of business integration models.
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