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Web‐based lecture technologies: Blurring the boundaries between face‐to‐face and distance learning
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Web‐based lecture technologies: Blurring the boundaries between face‐to‐face and distance learning

K. Woo, M. Gosper, M. McNeill, G. Preston, D. Green and R. Phillips
ALT-J: Research in Learning Technology, Vol.16(2), pp.81-93
2008
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Abstract

Web-based lecture technologies (WBLT) have gained popularity amongst universities in Australia as a tool for delivering lecture recordings to students in close to real time. This paper reports on a selection of results from a larger research project investigating the impact of WBLT on teaching and learning. Results show that while staff see the advantages for external students, they question the extent to which these advantages apply to internal students. In contrast both cohorts of students were positive about the benefits of the technologies for their learning and they adopted similar strategies for their use. With the help of other technologies, some external students and staff even found WBLT useful for fostering communication between internal and external students. As such, while the traditional boundary between internal and external students seems to remain for some staff, students seem to find the boundary much less clear.

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