The University of Guyana, up to the present time, continues to embrace a traditional learning and teaching approach, in its educational practices. Face to face contact is the principal mode of instructional delivery. Further to this, the conventional Distance Education, via the print-based correspondence mode, is still the current trend. Such a method only favours …
Sequencing and Navigation Through Learning Content
The aim of this paper is to describe a basic idea to introduce formal modelling in the development and presentation of e-learning systems. By introducing formalism, reasoning on e-learning systems and processes through them can be more easily understood. In particular, we propose to use Harel’s automata (statecharts) in modelling sequencing and navigation through learning …
Heads in the Cloud: Pros and Cons of Online Learning
The present paper deals with possible positive and negative experiences of using online technologies in teaching and learning. Here, the word possible is central as completely generally applicable issues may hardly be traced. The aim of the paper is to highlight such advantages and disadvantages of online learning that tend to recur rather frequently in …