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Re: Teaching from the beach
By: James Dalziel
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In response to 1 | 09/24/05 06:23 PM | |
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Flexibility in time and place has lots of potential benefits. For online university courses, you might not have any students on campus - everyone might be at a distance. As a teacher in this course, you could also travel (say to an overseas conference) and keep up your involvement as usual (as long as you haven't scheduled a chat in the middle of the night!).
Another related LAMS benefit is that someone else can teach your LAMS class for you if you get called away. In one recent school trial, a teacher was called away at the last moment - but the substitute teacher was still able to run the class as planned using the prepare d LAMS sequence. Even better, when the original teacher was back for the next class, they could review all the student activities from the class they missed, and pick up directly from where they were up to at the end of the class. I also like the idea of a student who is sick and unable to attend school (say contagious but otherwise ok), but could still participate in discussion, debate and other activities via LAMS. I guess not all students would think this was great - but I think we'd be surprised by how many would like it. Posted by James Dalziel |
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