Scenario:
Programme of Social Services - one of the tutors teaching the Counselling Micro skills course (level 5 first year paper)
One of LOs - part of the first module is: Students will be able to identify key issues for effective intercultural and cross cultural communication and be able to demonstrate effective cross cultural communication.
Students:
- Average class size: 30-40 students
- Located: dispersed across Northland over 50% in rural areas
- Socio economic profile:
- 60% or over identify themselves as Maori
- 90% women
- 90 % are 35- 55 years old with family
- 60% working full time
- 80 % have not completed secondary school qualification
- most lack academic study skills
- low computer literacy.
Tutor:
- has 15 years experience teaching in Counselling Micro skills course
- great traditional class room based teacher with over 90% positive student evaluations
- uses computer as a tool mainly e-mail and internet at a reasonable level but never had formal training
- reluctant to use any technology in her teaching because she believes it is not appropriate and effective for this particular course and students.
The equipment and technology available:
- laptops with audio and video capability are available to staff and students to book at the library on all learning sites
- all campuses have wireless access
- available technologies:
- Web conferencing
- LMS Moodle
- Web 2.0 tools
- text to mobile phones
ICT Enhanced Learning and Teaching Framework and Model by Hazel Owen is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 New Zealand License.
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