Flexibility and technology-enhanced learning and teaching: The rhetoric and reality

Josie A Fisher; Sue Whale

Flexibility and technology-enhanced learning and teaching: The rhetoric and reality

Josie A Fisher, Sue Whale

UNE Business School

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Abstract

According to the rhetoric, flexibility is one of the key benefits of online learning and teaching in higher education. In this paper we identify a set of dimensions of flexibility and demonstrate that the reality of much current technology-enhanced learning and teaching is, in fact, no more flexible than the early distance education model and in some respects is less flexible. We suggest that we are on the cusp of a radical transformation of online education. However, there are constraints in terms of students' lack of strategies to manage their learning environments and a lack of research into pedagogically sound models for the delivery of truly flexible, personalised learning and teaching.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Rhetoric and Reality: Critical perspectives on educational technology. Proceedings of ascilite Dunedin 2014
Editors	Bronwyn Hegarty, Jenny McDonald, Swee-Kin Loke
Place of Publication	Dunedin, New Zealand
Publisher	Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (ASCILITE)
Pages	446-450
ISBN (Print)	9780473307509
Publication status	Published - 2014
Event	ASCILITE 2014: 31st Annual Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education International Conference - Dunedin, New Zealand Duration: 23 Nov 2014 → 26 Nov 2014

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Conference	ASCILITE 2014: 31st Annual Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education International Conference
City	Dunedin, New Zealand
Period	23/11/14 → 26/11/14

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Curriculum and Pedagogy Theory and Development
Higher Education

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Fisher, J. A., & Whale, S. (2014). Flexibility and technology-enhanced learning and teaching: The rhetoric and reality. In B. Hegarty, J. McDonald, & S.-K. Loke (Eds.), Rhetoric and Reality: Critical perspectives on educational technology. Proceedings of ascilite Dunedin 2014 (pp. 446-450). Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (ASCILITE). https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/16214

Fisher, Josie A ; Whale, Sue. / Flexibility and technology-enhanced learning and teaching : The rhetoric and reality. Rhetoric and Reality: Critical perspectives on educational technology. Proceedings of ascilite Dunedin 2014. editor / Bronwyn Hegarty ; Jenny McDonald ; Swee-Kin Loke. Dunedin, New Zealand : Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (ASCILITE), 2014. pp. 446-450

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Fisher, JA & Whale, S 2014, Flexibility and technology-enhanced learning and teaching: The rhetoric and reality. in B Hegarty, J McDonald & S-K Loke (eds), Rhetoric and Reality: Critical perspectives on educational technology. Proceedings of ascilite Dunedin 2014. Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (ASCILITE), Dunedin, New Zealand, pp. 446-450, ASCILITE 2014: 31st Annual Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education International Conference, Dunedin, New Zealand, 23/11/14. <https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/16214>

Flexibility and technology-enhanced learning and teaching: The rhetoric and reality. / Fisher, Josie A; Whale, Sue.
Rhetoric and Reality: Critical perspectives on educational technology. Proceedings of ascilite Dunedin 2014. ed. / Bronwyn Hegarty; Jenny McDonald; Swee-Kin Loke. Dunedin, New Zealand: Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (ASCILITE), 2014. p. 446-450.

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Fisher JA, Whale S. Flexibility and technology-enhanced learning and teaching: The rhetoric and reality. In Hegarty B, McDonald J, Loke SK, editors, Rhetoric and Reality: Critical perspectives on educational technology. Proceedings of ascilite Dunedin 2014. Dunedin, New Zealand: Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (ASCILITE). 2014. p. 446-450

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