Westminster College Faculty Perspectives . Technology Can Enhance Teaching and Learning Through Improved Communication by Dr. Bryan Rennie . Pa. He earned his bachelor's, master's, and Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. If used properly, technology can be an important tool to enhance teaching and learning by improving communication between students and teachers.
Technology is a tool, and like any other tool it can be used well or it can be used poorly.
Laptop computers, for example, cannot transform every student into a guaranteed success or every classroom into the perfect learning environment. They serve a wide range of functions, all of which, individually and collectively, can be of benefit to anyone involved in teaching and learning. They know that I will receive and respond to that message in writing, sometimes immediately and never in more than a day. This increases the flow of communication between instructor and student and encourages students to commit their thoughts to writing and to formulate their questions in a coherent form as no other medium does. They do not have to hand-deliver a sheaf of papers, and they do not have to wait until class to receive a response.