Jill Slay, Flexible Learning Centre, University of South Australia, The Levels Campus, Mawson Lakes, SA 5095, Australia. jill.slay@unisa.edu.au
Online Learning Environment, Higher Education, Staff Development.
In previous research I have suggested (Slay, J., 1998 (a), 1998 (b)) that in developing pedagogy for WWW-based delivery of teaching material, it is useful for academic staff, new to this medium, to consider expected outcomes, both in terms of student learning and the process required to obtain this learning. This provides an alternative to concentrating on the different and possibly conflicting models of teaching that they may have inherited from their academic discipline areas. This paper details how academic staff within the University of South Australia have been helped to produce their own on-line learning environment and have developed subjects and courses intended to produce identifiable indicators of "graduateness" in their students. It is illustrated in the context of the Professional Development program that has been established and details some of the conceptual changes that are necessary for the average faculty academic in developing subjects in this new medium. It gives examples of the various subjects and courses that have been developed in an on-line mode .
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