Re: reply to discussion point in keynote one

David Ashworth (ashworth@hawaii.edu)
Sat, 11 Apr 1998 09:00:55 -1000

I have been teaching various kinds of courses over the years, especially
language courses and graduate courses in pedagogy, and I think that my own
experience as a successful learner has a lot to do with what I consider
good teaching and good learning. I suspect that in the future, some of the
best (or at least most enthusiastic) online teachers will have been
online students themselves, and will use their memory and experience to
configure and deliver courses in (in their minds at least) an optimal way.
--Sorry if I waste bandwidth on the future, but that is where my head is a
lot of the time.
Dave Ashworth

On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Lujean Baab wrote:

> One of the discussion points raised in Steve McCarty's paper is "how can
> on-line teaching become better organized and peer-regulated to merit
> creditibilty in global educational circles?" My response to that is
> that is will/should happen in the same way that traditional teaching
> became organized and peer-regulated. We need teachers to teach how to
> teach. Education is an accepted discipline. Distance Education should
> also become an accepted discipline. When we have quality educators
> teaching the theories and methodologies of web-based instruction and
> other forms of distance learning, we will be organized, regulated and
> credible. This cannot be an add-on to traditional teaching, but a
> discipline unto itself. Anyone else see it this way? Lujean
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