ESC413 Web Pedagogies (8)
CSU Discipline Area: Professional Studies (PROFL)
Duration: One session
Abstract:
This subject will examine the issues and practicalities involved with integrating the World Wide Web into the classroom in ways that promote intellectual quality, a quality learning environment, and provide significance to the learning beyond the classroom. It will provide participants with the opportunity to learn about a range of Web pedagogies, and to critique and develop a series of Web-based educational resources.
+ Subject Availability Modes and Locations
| Session 3 | |
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| Distance | Wagga Wagga |
Continuing students should consult the SAL for current offering details: ESC413
Where differences exist between the Handbook and the SAL, the SAL should be taken as containing the correct subject offering details.
Enrolment restrictions:
Not available to students who have completed ESC516 Web Pedagogies or ESC402 Computer Applications in Education.
Objectives:
Upon successful completion of this subject, students should:
- identify and evaluate recent developments in the educational application of the Web
- demonstrate an awareness of ways in which the Web-based resources and Web 2.0 tools may be used across the curriculum
- understand the possible uses of the Web to engage learners in high quality intellectual work that has significance beyond the classroom
- demonstrate an understanding of possible uses of Web-based resources and Web 2.0 tools that promotes quality learning environments, in which social support and self-regulation are valued principles that structure the learning process
- be able to critically evaluate Web sites for use in learning and across the curriculum
- design, develop and deploy educational Web resources and Web 2.0 tools
- have an understanding of issues related to the hosting, publication, and ethical reproduction of Web resources in schools
Syllabus:
The subject will cover the following topics:
- Web Pedagogies
- Web 2.0 tools
- Digital learning objects
- Critical evaluation of web sites for use in teaching and learning
- Designing, developing and deploying web pedagogies
- Theoretical underpinnings of web pedagogies
- Practical issues that impinge on the integration of web pedagogies
- Ethical issues relating to the use of the web in teaching and learning
The information contained in the 2013 CSU Handbook was accurate at the date of publication: 24 April 2013. The University reserves the right to vary the information at any time without notice.