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E-communication

What is it?

Screen shot of the e-communication website home pageThe e-communication site contains information focusing on three key elements when using online communication media for teaching and learning:

  • Creating an online community
  • Teaching and learning activities and
  • Collaboration

The site provides a variety of resources to support academics in designing and developing teaching activities. It suggests teaching strategies, ideas, tips and references which can be employed using the communication media offered in Blackboard and supplemented by additional media technologies.

Why use it?

Academics are encouraged to enhance the student's learning experiences by offering increased choices in flexibility of access, time and pace. This site has been developed to assist academics in the implementation of communication media technologies into their teaching and learning through the adoption of new learning technologies which must be appropriate, effective and accessible.

See also

E-communication in learning and teaching
http://www.swinburne.edu.au/ads/ecommunication/

Pedagogical Roles and Implementation Guidelines for Online Communication Tools
http://www.aln.org/publications/magazine/v3n2/funaro.asp

Online Teaching And Learning in Higher Education: A Case Study
http://www.dest.gov.au/highered/eippubs/eip03_11/default.htm

Gilly Salmon: All things in moderation
http://www.atimod.com/index.shtml

Computer-Mediated Communication and the Online Classroom in Higher Education
http://www.ibiblio.org/cmc/mag/1995/mar/berge.html

Resources for Moderators and Facilitators of Online Discussion
http://www.emoderators.com/moderators.shtml