Publication date:
10 September 2018Publisher
Critical PublishingDimensions:
246x174mm7x10"
ISBN-13: 9781912096930
Written specifically for all FE and post-16 teachers, this book will help you to develop your digital capabilities and give you the skills to convert traditional learning and teaching resources into engaging and interactive online material.
The impact of the pandemic means that it is abundantly clear to all that digital capability is vital for learners, no matter what subject they study. You should therefore develop your digital capabilities as a basic competence in order to embrace current digital tools, apps and techniques to the pedagogy of teaching FE. The book provides you with the knowledge and skills required to source information learning technology (ILT) and content to convert traditional learning and teaching resources into engaging and interactive online material.
It is designed around each aspect of the teaching and training cycle - identifying needs, planning and designing, delivering and facilitating, assessing and evaluating – and includes:
- when to use ILT / eLearning
- barriers to implementing digital learning
- the importance of digital capabilities
- ways of keeping up to date and continuing professional development.
This is a really useful book, theoretically informed and written in clear and uncomplicated language that will be a great resource for Teacher Education, course leaders and teachers themselves. The book is situated firmly in FE, with information on familiar network modes like learningwheels, and reference paid to institutions like JISC and the FELTAG report. Throughout the book are examples, practical activities and reflective tasks that help put technology into the reader’s own personal context. This will be a really useful quick reference guide, immersed as it is in technique and with handy practical tips that make using familiar tools highly purposeful in teaching and learning.