In 2009, Gabriel, Wiebe, and MacDonald found: "Notions of influence, agency, and audience did not match their technological understandings. Blogs, online video sites and social networking sites did not count as sites of agency or ways to influence public opinion on an academic issue." Five years later, has anything changed with writing in higher education?
Chapter Net generation expectations for technology—mediated learning...
Things have changed a lot. Technology has allowed students to be speedy, get results faster, contact professors and the academic communicty very quickly, write papers more efficienctly, attact followers towards research topics.
In terms of teaching, teachers have more tools to get students' attention through videos, images, interactive activities, and what have you.
Yet, there is a downside. Plagiarism is now more prevalent than before even though this activity has always existed.
Well, while technology might be great for enhancing the students' learning - it is the student and their motivation that would make a difference - technology might be a tool no more no less... but the burden is on the teacher/lecturer and students... to make it work or fail!
I used BigBlueButton webconference system as consultation tool or presenter tool and I have found positive effect on the learning habits and test result by students. You can read the details in my papers, if you need.
This is interesting open source tool - what we use is blackboard collaborate! which is somehow similar...
Thanks for that.
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