Re: Digital support for teaching as a design science

Diana Laurillard, April 20, 2012

I do like the comments about the importance of creativity and collaboration, such as the idea of the "fundamental shift to see teacher-student as a continuum or interchangeable role rather than a discrete category or otherness."

This point is entirely independent of any technology, but is certainly served by technology. I was intrigued to discover, for example, that online tutorials created an exact inverse of the tutor-student talk time for the face-to-face version. In those I analysed there was a 10:1 ratio of student words to teacher words online, and a 1:10 ratio of student time talking to teacher time talking in the real time classroom, for similar tutor group sizes. The online technology, partly because it is asynchronous - the same shift does not happen in my experience in synchronous online conferences - changes the power relation and makes teachers and students much more like peers in a mutual exploration of ideas.

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