Online learning has been with us for a long time and has obviously led to major changes in the way that distance learning courses have operated. However there has always been the conundrum of how best to integrate online learning into the activities of universities that are campus based and teach primarily in physical classrooms. The reality of blended learning at most universities has in the main been little more than online Word and Powerpoint files made available as a supplement to lectures.
Sadly such exploitation of such powerful technology has inevitably not moved universities forward much in terms of changing the predominant learning and teaching paradigm of lecture, seminar, assessment.
In SMART teaching, online learning is central and something that feeds into and can actually take place within the physical classroom, so as to enhance the student learning experience and the teacher’s teaching experience.
SMART Teaching 