期刊名称：International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
电子版ISSN：1812-9129
出版年度：2005
卷号：17
期号：1
页码：33-41
出版社：International Society for Exploring Teaching and Learning
摘要：The Internet has the potential to connect global communities of learners who share a common interest and yet who have diverse cultural backgrounds and experiences, which shape their current understandings. This paper describes and reflects upon the ways these individual differences in experience and understandings are valued and placed at the centre of the student learning experience in an online module of a Professional Doctorate in Teacher Education program. It explores how the online learning experience has been developed to leverage from successful face-to-face implementation and identifies differences between the two modes, in particular the added value of working online. Issues related to the nature of the support mechanisms necessary for successful online learning are discussed. This development was part of collaboration between the University of Melbourne, Australia where the online technology was developed and the University of Nottingham, United Kingdom, where the course is offered. Parallels between the online collaborative work experiences of the international partner developers and students are highlighted
