DocumentCode
1926999
Title
Pedaglue teaching for life-long learners: rapid development by post-graduates of a PG course with modern content
Author
Kennedy, Ian G.
Author_Institution
Univ. of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
fYear
2004
fDate
30 Aug.-1 Sept. 2004
Firstpage
1013
Lastpage
1017
Abstract
In developing countries, students are sensitive to the cost of education and lecturers do not have much support. We present a new, constructivist technique for educators in developing countries, of lifelong benefit to their students. Course materials are often incoherent to students until a lecturer does an analysis and provides the pedagogical links or glue. So we taught a class how to provide pedagogical links themselves, a technique we call the Teaching of PedaGlue. We teach the processes that lecturers perform on material to make it suitable for students: how to access, process, create, share, and apply knowledge. Systematically and intentionally we teach students how to do this didactisizing (pedagogical process) themselves, and thereby rapidly develop new, modern, dynamic instructional reference material. They developed a large, comprehensive, annotated, organised corpus of recent, relevant references that is now published. Success factors included the prior teaching of research methods, and resources, key keywords, and a template for critical reviewing.
Keywords
continuing professional development; educational administrative data processing; educational courses; public domain software; teaching; Pedaglue teaching; constructivist technique; course materials; developing countries; didactisizing; dynamic instructional reference material; knowledge access; knowledge creation; knowledge processing; knowledge sharing; life-long learners; pedagogical glue; pedagogical links; post-graduate course; Art; Books; Costs; Education; Educational programs; Materials science and technology; Mirrors; Scattering; Software tools; Utility programs;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Advanced Learning Technologies, 2004. Proceedings. IEEE International Conference on
Print_ISBN
0-7695-2181-9
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ICALT.2004.1357740
Filename
1357740
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