A demonstration of the Learning Technologies postgraduate program for tertiary academics

Like its forerunner, the K-12 course, the tertiary version of the postgraduate Learning Technologies program gives students:

• A comprehensive understanding of a range of information technologies;
• The confidence and competence to use appropriate technologies to access, retrieve, analyse, interpret, evaluate, synthesise, apply, use and communicate information;
• The confidence and competence to use desktop computers, networks, keyboarding/word processing/desktop publishing, spreadsheets, multimedia and telecommunications, to develop, use, evaluate and communicate instruction materials;
• The confidence and competence to develop and implement fully online multimedia courses (offered via the WWW and multi-platform CD-ROMs); and
• The experience in practical and appropriate research and development skills, and reflective teaching and learning, appropriate to a tertiary environment.

The tertiary version of the learning technologies course is presented via both the World Wide Web and on a CD-ROM; no campus attendance is required. The content includes:

• A set of "core" teaching modules
• A set of "Personal Computing Tutorials"
• Access to a huge library of networked multimedia (both CD-ROM and the Internet)
• A suite of synchronous and asynchronous communication tools, including email, bulletin boards, news groups and chat rooms.

There are ten "core modules" in the 2-semester sequence. They cover:

• Introduction, set up, and pre-testing
• Computing basics
• Using IT, multimedia and the WWW in education - course delivery
• Using the Internet for communications
• Making the World Wide Web Work for you
• Multimedia design: The basics
• Legal, moral and ethical considerations of multimedia publishing
• Advanced multimedia design
• Setting up an entire course online
• Creating multi-platform CD-ROMs

This demonstration will highlight the major features of the course. Approximately 20% of its content is freely available, online, at http://learnt.smec.curtin.edu.au/