Education + Training: Volume 40 Issue 8

Issues in training lecturers to exploit the Internet as a teaching resource

Debra Fayter

This paper outlines the rationale behind the development of a course aimed at university lecturers wishing to use the Internet for teaching and learning. It evaluates some of the…

Creating a faculty intranet: a case study in change

Steve Flowers, Becci Newton, Cameron Paine

Much has been written about the implications for higher education of the Internet‐based Virtual University. This paper is an account of the development and operation of an…

As we may teach

Tom Davis

The paper examines the concept of the memex, a use of the computer as a hypertext learning and teaching tool, pioneered by Vannevar Bush in 1945. It discusses the practical…

From answer garden to answer jungle

Jon Dron, Richard Mitchell, Phil Siviter

This paper describes an experiment making use of a Usenet Newsgroup to accelerate the evolution of a learning resource artificially within a group of level one students of…

Using the Internet as a teaching resource

Pat Jefferies, Fiaz Hussain

Increasingly the Internet is being used by students to gather a variety of data and gain an extensive range of experience as part of their learning activity. The paper discusses…

Student C&IT skills development and the learning environment: evaluation and module evolution

John Grattan, Giles H. Brown, Jennifer Horgan

This paper describes efforts by the Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, to develop effective strategies with which to develop…

Network technology and language learning

Brian Hill, Paul Slater

Since the 1950s early adopters of a succession of new technologies have been working to see how these could be exploited in the language learning field. However, this pioneering…