Pedagogical Issues
Related to
Internet-based Instruction

Eight Shifts in education related to computer-mediated instruction:

Shift from lecture and recitation to coaching.

Shift from whole-class instruction to smallgroup interaction.

Shift from working with better students to working with weaker students.

Shift from all students learning the same things to different students learning different things.

A shift toward more engaged students.

A shift toward assessment based on test performance to assesment based on products and progress.

A shift from a competitive to a cooperative goal structure.

A shift from primacy of verbal thinking to the integration of visual and verbal thinking.

 

New roles for professors

A shift from covering material to assisting students.

A shift from unilaterally declaring what is worth knowing to negotiating criteria that identify what is important.

 

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Created by Michael Ritter ( mritter@uwsp.edu ) Last revised 8/20/97