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Complementary Pedagogical Strategies For Online Design, Sandra Wills, Albert Ip, Adair Bunnett
Complementary Pedagogical Strategies For Online Design, Sandra Wills, Albert Ip, Adair Bunnett
Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) - Papers
The First Fleet Convict Database has had a 20 year journey as an exemplar of educational software, published first on mainframe, then microcomputer, and now the web. We describe how the nature of the web environment has changed the nature of this educational package. Pedagogically, databases of primary source data provide students with a learning experience based on the inquiry learning model however, observations of students and teachers in the past 20 years have indicated that database searching is shallow and investigation perfunctory. Before, we could have blamed unwieldy search engines. Now that this obstacle appears to have been removed, …