Learning and Teaching Fellowship of ICT
by Hendric Bastian on Sunday, June 12th, 2011 | No Comments
In 2003, whilst Still Teaching Tourism at Bournemouth University, as part of my The Role of Learning and Teaching Fellowship, I Was Engaged in talking about To other Universities Involved In The The Potential Use of the Internet as a support tool for learning in a university ‘attendance’ (rather Than distance learning) mode. As part of this Endeavour I Was Invited To The University of Haute Alsace (Mulhouse, France) to address and Work with a faculty upon The Development of a Vision and a Strategy for the Application of ICT in learning and teaching. Some Things Became Immediately apparent:
- The degree of Faculty lecturer and Individual Autonomy (Sovereignty, even) were very Much Stronger Than in England
- In The Light Of Such independence, The University ‘center’ found it difficulty to lead gold Either to impose new ICT initiatives and WAS looking for Something to emerge Themselves From The Faculties.
- The collegiate nature of Largely WITHIN operator Faculties and Their Departments made it ‘difficult’ for coherent ICT initiatives to come about.
- There Were although ‘lab-style’ ICT oases, Generally speaking, Both staff and student access to ICT was very Much Lower Than I Had Been Used to seeing in the UK.