How can existing technologies be used in the design of effective teaching and learning experiences?
At a minimum, existing technologies can provide a visual architecture to the information associated with a course that is not always evident from a course outline: in other words, make evident the structure of the information of a course and how it’s related to the discipline. However, if technologies were simply for providing and structuring information, they wouldn’t be all that learner centered. Information in the form of facts and ideas isn’t what we seek as learners; we look for meaning and understanding by making connections. Technologies enable us to choose authentic issues and problems. They enable learners and teachers to enhance their learning and to learn different things in different ways. Technologies make it possible for us to envisage different strategies that help learners learn and to organize learning experiences that address areas likely to be difficult to master. This is why we bother with technologies: they have the potential to expand choices about how we teach an
