Journal article
LMS teaching versus Community Learning: a call for the latter
Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics, Vol.24(5), pp.826-841
2012
Abstract
Unlike Sisyphus – condemned by Zeus to an eternity of perpetually rolling a massive boulder uphill only for the boulder to roll back down – universities, students and academics seem destined to educational technology experiences ranging from futile and frustrating to effective and engaging. As technology evolves, related costs, applications, interoperability and purposes evolve – as do the students. The purpose of this paper is to propose two contrasting ideologies of technologymediated education, LMS teaching and Community Learning, to question the inexorable march towards the former. The approach used is a literature review and case study. Most traditional universities would embrace a Community Learning ideology, yet many of these same universities practice LMS teaching. This paper draws on the literature to contrast these two technologymediated learning ideologies, and argue for Community Learning. These contrary ideologies help administrators and academics reflect upon, and then align institutional ideologies with their educational pedagogy and technology. The paper includes a short case study to illustrate aspects of Community Learning, a few simple ideas for shifting towards Community Learning and future research avenues. This paper answers calls for critical discourse of effective educational technology use, particularly LMS technology, and adds to a nascent research field that uses ideologies to help explain technology consumption. In addition, this is one of a few papers that reviews social media as a learning management system.
Details
- Title
- LMS teaching versus Community Learning: a call for the latter
- Authors/Creators
- J. Murphy (Author/Creator) - Murdoch University
- Publication Details
- Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics, Vol.24(5), pp.826-841
- Publisher
- Emerald
- Identifiers
- 991005544792507891
- Copyright
- © 2012, Emerald Group Publishing Limited
- Murdoch Affiliation
- Do not use- Former Murdoch Business School
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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