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Connecting communities of learners across continents: the ShanghAI lectures
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Bonsignorio, F and Labhart, N and Lueg, C and Pfeifer, R, Connecting communities of learners across continents: the ShanghAI lectures, Proceedings of the 2014 International Conference on Intelligent Environments, 30 June - 4 July 2014, Shanghai, China, pp. 277-284. ISBN 978-1-4799-2947-4 (2014) [Refereed Conference Paper]
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Abstract
It is widely recognized that knowledge sharing
and learning are most effective when occurring in an appropriate
and supportive context. As a consequence when
designing an educational process the context has to be
carefully considered. Implementing "situated learning" is
straightforward in traditional apprenticeship models that inspired
the communities of practice model, and the centuries old
university model, but poses a formidable challenge when
knowledge and associated practices are to be shared with
large numbers of students as it is the case in most contemporary,
demand-driven universities and even more in MOOCs.
The traditional, and well tested, face-to-face teaching model
that is in place does not scale even if videoconferencing is
utilized to include students at remote locations. A few years
ago, MOOCs were presented as a viable "solution", but
while participant numbers remain impressive, experiences
also suggest that the learning experience does not scale as
easily. In this paper we discuss an alternative knowledge
sharing and learning model, the ShanghAI Lectures (SHAIL)
developed at the University of Zurich, Switzerland in response
to the need of making top quality higher education
available to a worldwide audience. SHAIL combines some
of the strongest aspects of traditional face-to-face teaching,
but also allows lecturing from and to a community which is
globally distributed. Findings from delivering the ShanghAI
Lectures annually over five consecutive years to up to
twenty universities from across the globe (North America,
Africa, Europe, Asia, Oceania) suggest that SHAIL is a
promising way to address "global teaching", but there are
also challenges to be addressed such as: finding a common
base with respect to university requirements, student goals
and expectations, teaching styles, and of course the actual
technologies used.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Refereed Conference Paper |
|---|---|
| Keywords: | cooperation, videoconferencing, distance learning, MOOC |
| Research Division: | Information and Computing Sciences |
| Research Group: | Library and information studies |
| Research Field: | Human information interaction and retrieval |
| Objective Division: | Information and Communication Services |
| Objective Group: | Other information and communication services |
| Objective Field: | Other information and communication services not elsewhere classified |
| UTAS Author: | Lueg, C (Professor Christopher Lueg) |
| ID Code: | 98494 |
| Year Published: | 2014 |
| Deposited By: | Information and Communication Technology |
| Deposited On: | 2015-02-18 |
| Last Modified: | 2018-03-28 |
| Downloads: | 338 View Download Statistics |
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