by Prof. Kevin Hart, Centre for Comparative Literature,
Monash University (Clayton)
This forum briefly tells the success story of an international
collaborative effort between Monash and Williams (Ma) to teach a
senior level literature course. The presentation will cover issues
like:
the benefits of the teleteaching links and how they helped to achieve
course objectives.
the limitations of teleteaching links that had to be worked around.
the additional things that had to be done to
make the whole package work as an educational experience for the
students eg:
the arrangement ofstudents to do joint presentations between the two sites; the
collaborative communication necessary outside of the formal
class sessions; the involvement of a teacher at both ends, the
process of "educational design" that went into setting up the
learning experience; and the strategic thinking needed in mounting a
course so reliant on technology.
the evaluation of learning outcomes and the succes or
otherwise of the project from your point of view
the costs and other considerations that had
to be considered in making use of this interactive
medium.
About the presenter
Kevin Hart is the author of seven collections of poetry, the most
recent being "Wicked Heat", and four volumes of criticism,
including his latest,"Samuel Johnson and the Culture of Property".
He is the
translator of Giuseppe Ungaretti's selected poems, "The Buried
Harbour", and the editor of "The Oxford Book of Australian
Religious
Verse". He is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at
Monash University and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the
Humanities.
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