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Current State of Web-Supported Courses at Tel-Aviv University

This research aims to identify, classify, and quantify the evolving use of web pedagogies on course websites, by lecturers in a traditional university. The main research questions are: (a) For what purposes and to what extent do lecturers integrate the Internet in their courses (e.g., content delive...

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Published in:International journal on e-learning 2007-04, Vol.6 (2), p.235
Main Authors: Shemla, Anat, Nachmias, Rafi
Format: Article
Language:English
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Summary:This research aims to identify, classify, and quantify the evolving use of web pedagogies on course websites, by lecturers in a traditional university. The main research questions are: (a) For what purposes and to what extent do lecturers integrate the Internet in their courses (e.g., content delivery, learning activities and course management)? And (b) to what extent do lecturers realize the Web's pedagogical potential in terms of learning flexibility, representational means, and interaction? To assess this current state, a course website characterization scheme was developed and implemented to a random sample of 202 academic websites from all academic units of Tel-Aviv University in the year 2002/2003. Results suggest that most lecturers conceived course websites as content providers rather than communication facilitators. They realized only to a limited extent the huge pedagogical potential for flexibility and augmentation of academic instruction. (Contains 6 tables.)
ISSN:1537-2456
1943-5932