ERIC Number: EJ833286
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2008
Pages: 11
Abstractor: As Provided
Reference Count: 29
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0814-0626
"EE in Cyberspace, Why Not?" Teaching, Learning and Researching Tertiary Pre-Service and In-Service Teacher Environmental Education Online
Whitehouse, Hilary
Australian Journal of Environmental Education, v24 p11-21 2008
Information communication technologies (ICTs) have the potential to enable intending and in-service teachers in regional, rural and remote regions greater access to tertiary education. This paper describes how a fourth year environmental education subject has been successfully delivered wholly online for several years and how pre-service and in-service teachers have responded to learning through an online platform. Research indicates the necessity to create a social learning space in cyberspace to support learning; as well as the importance of building flexible learning opportunities and offline assessment tasks to generate meaningful learning experiences related to local places. Teaching environmental education online may initially create the dilemma of how to engage meaningfully with place-based learning through the no-place of cyberspace. However, carefully designed, online learning can and does support positive learning outcomes. While there are limitations to online study, well-conceived, web-based delivery is certainly no barrier to teaching and learning environmental education in the tertiary sector.
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Distance Education, Online Courses, Preservice Teacher Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Electronic Learning, Educational Technology, Web Based Instruction, Education Courses, Foreign Countries, Schools of Education
Australian Association for Environmental Education Inc. PO Box 560, Bellingen, NSW 2454 Australia. Tel: +61-2-6655-1865; Fax: +61-2-6655-1596; e-mail: admin@aaee.org.au; Website: http://www.aaee.org.au/publications/ajee.htm
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Australia

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