Conference presentation
If you thought face-to-face teaching was a challenge try teaching remote online
SCU Scholarship of Learning and Teaching Symposium (Gold Coast, Queensland, 05/11/2019 - 05/11/2019)
05/11/2019
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Abstract
Education is an extremely competitive, global industry. Teaching and learning (T&L) are core business but based on 20th century learning theories (Constructivism, Behaviourism, Cognitive Load Theory etc.) that are soft sciences. Soft sciences are concerned with the complexities of human behaviour and hence methods are subjective, qualitative with difference interpretations resulting, in the case of education, in wide variations in the quality of T&L outcomes. eLearning tools, based on these 20th century learning theories, cannot ensure improved T&L outcomes. The problems are exacerbated when learning occurs in an entirely remote, online mode. By contrast hard sciences are empirical, objective, quantitative, self-correcting etc. The (new) Science of Learning (SoL) has the objective of optimised learning. Successful use of SoL can result in significant improvements in T&L outcomes for remote online students achieved in considerably less time with implications for institute competitiveness in a national and international context.
Maj, S. P. (2018). Cognitive Load Optimization A New, Practical, Easy to Use Teaching Method for Enhancing STEM Educational Outcomes Based on the Science of Learning. Paper presented at the IEEE TALE, Wollongong.
Details
- Title
- If you thought face-to-face teaching was a challenge try teaching remote online
- Creators
- Paul Maj - The Hotel School, Southern Cross UniversityKatalin Dobos - The Hotel School, Southern Cross University
- Conference
- SCU Scholarship of Learning and Teaching Symposium (Gold Coast, Queensland, 05/11/2019 - 05/11/2019)
- Identifiers
- 991013148212902368
- Academic Unit
- Centre for Teaching and Learning
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Conference presentation
- Local Fields
- Evidence Based Practice - SoLT