eTextbooks: creative learning tool or artefact?

Event Details

Date:

Thursday, 31 October 2019

Time:

9:00 am - 12:00 pm

Location:

UQ St Lucia Campus

URL:

https://itali.uq.edu.au/event/session/2839

Event category(s):

Full Description:: Debate has raged for years about whether eTextbooks improve learning outcomes, offer new opportunities, are more affordable and useable, or whether they deliver poor outcomes, hinder learning and comprehension, and frustrate users.

New ways of teaching and learning have arrived with co-creation and blended learning. Teaching staff and learning designers are looking at new ways of offering courses with micro-credentialing and MOOCs. New publishing modes offer open educational resources, and technology has marched ever onwards bringing new creative tools, more interactivity, more bandwidth and more speed.

Highly qualified panel members will present a brief outline of what’s good and bad about using an eTextbook from their perspective: a lecturer, a student, and a publisher. Followed by guided discussion around what the panel sees as the things we want to take forward into the next generation of learning material.