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Effective Teaching with Technology in Higher Educationreviewed by Kathleen Matheos - 2004 Title: Effective Teaching with Technology in Higher Education Author(s): A. W. Bates and Gary Poole Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publishers, San Francisco ISBN: 0787960349, Pages: 306, Year: 2003 Search for book at Amazon.com Having been fortunate to have both heard presentations and read
books and articles by Dr. A. W. (Tony) Bates I was eager to read
this latest book, a collaborative effort of Bates and Dr. Gary
Poole, both with the University of British Columbia, Canada.
In Effective Teaching with Technology in Higher
Education, the collaboration of these two authors seemed an
unusual alliance. Tony Bates brings years of experience in the
research, development, and administration of open and distance
learning while Gary Poole brings a perspective on classroom
teaching and working with faculty to become better classroom
teachers. As I delved into the book I realized this was a timely
and much-needed strategic alliance. Neither discounted the various
forms that teaching could take, nor had they created an adversarial
relationship between distance learning and traditional classroom
teaching. Rather the book brings together these two traditions in a
manner essential to the university of the 21st century; a manner to
best serve students in... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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- Kathleen Matheos
University of Saskatchewan E-mail Author KATHLEEN MATHEOS is an assistant professor in the Centre for Distributed Learning at the University of Saskatchewan. Prior to this she was the Director of Campus Manitoba, a consortium of Manitoba post-secondary institutions involved in distributed learning delivery. Her research interests focus on institutional change and policies and practices for distributed learning.
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