Online technologies offer us the opportunity and challenge to do both well. Since VET core business is teaching and learning, the challenge of a balanced investment between the educational design and the technology is one that cannot be ignored. It has fostered debate on a range of issues related to learning, teaching, organisational structures, lifelong learning, the new requirements of the knowledge economy, Key Competencies and professional development. The nature of the development of courses for online delivery requires a multidisciplinary team approach and this has fostered professional collaboration and provided a platform for sharing of ideas and debating issues of methodology. Breaks down barriers across departments.
Teachers are hungry to talk about core business.
They can revisit why they do things, what it means to teach, constantly thinking what it's all about. Reconsidering Research onLearning from Media. Review of Educational Research, Vol. I Wonder if My Teacher Got My Email. Seven Pedagogical Principles for Effective Educational MOOing.