David Ashworth wrote:
> 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
> >
> >