Journal of Educational Media
"...an extremely readable work as well as an authoritative and scholarly one. I wish it were a compulsory text for all university teachers."
Book Description
Rethinking University Teaching prepares teachers for the challenges they will face as they meet the growing demand for more professional approaches to teaching. Diana Laurillard also informs them how technological media has improved students' learning, helps teachers to think constructively and critically, and builds towards a practical methodology for the design, development and implementation of educational technologies. She explores students' learning, and what it is that they need from educational technology; examines individual teaching methods and media, including non-interactive media (lectures, print, audio, etc.), hypermedia (CD-ROM, etc.), and interactive media (simulations, modelling programs etc.); and discusses the design methodology, designing learning activities, setting up the learning context and maintaining quality.