E-teaching - Eroding the Stronghold of Teachers

Authors

  • Gerhard - Chroust J. Kepler Univ. Linz

Keywords:

E-teaching, academic education, evolution of communication technology, WorldWideWeb, leadtime

Abstract

Internet and the World Wide Web have probably caused the most dramatic paradigm changes in learning and teaching, even more than the printed book. The basic objective of teaching is to transform tacit (’internal’) knowledge of an creator into tacit knowledge of another person, in academia usually by a third person - a Teacher. Therefore communication is of key importance in teaching, both synchronous communication between the Teacher and the Student, and - nowadays equally important - accessing and using stored information (libraries and repositories). Especially in the case of stored information their availability, access, and retrieval are heavily dependent on the available communication technology. In this paper we consider the evolution of communication technology (section 1) from speech, to handwritten and typeset books, to photocopying and fax, to e-mail, to books produced from camera-ready anuscripts, to the World Wide Web with powerful search engines, to ubiquitous computing, and finally to social computing. We discuss how the essential processes of Dissemination, and Teaching (section 2) and the existing Teaching Types (section 3). In section 4 we discuss basic factors of the teaching process together with their dependence on technological progress. this evolution impacts the knowledge acquisition and dissemination by the Teacher especially in relation to the means of the Student for independent access and acquisition of knowledge. Concentrating on academic institutions we identify three groups of factors of the educational process: Time factors, verification/ validation factors and impact factors. The new technologies tend to weaken the position of the teachers versus the students with respect to these factors.. We continue by discussing some emerging effects of the introduction of the new technologies (section 5). foremost questions of verification, validation, lead-time of the teacher and surpsing the teacher. We close with a discussion of consequences for the academic institutions.

Author Biography

Gerhard - Chroust, J. Kepler Univ. Linz

Prof. emeritus J. Kepler University Linz, Austria

Published

2008-07-04

How to Cite

Chroust, G. .-. (2008). E-teaching - Eroding the Stronghold of Teachers. Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the ISSS - 2008, Madison, Wisconsin, 3(1). Retrieved from https://journals.isss.org/index.php/proceedings52nd/article/view/981

Issue

Section

Designing Educational Systems