Students reflecting on their TAFE experience…

It’s interesting to do a Technorati tag search for TAFE and see what people are writing about their TAFE experience… of course, it’s not always going to be posititve… One student, ‘unwritten’ wrote recently in a post entitled “bored *sigh*“:

Man, i should really get going on my TAFE work, but tis soo soo soo boring, ive been trying to put it off for as long as i can. I mean seriously, this is what we have to do: we have about an A4 sized, 111 paged text book, yea i know it doesnt seem long but we have to summarise each frikkin paragraph of the whole thing! I mean tell me how were supposed to actually learn from that?

Tell me if im wrong and overreacting, PA-LEASE. Cos I sure as hell am learning nothing from it

…i confronted him about it and the reason he sets the courses up like this is so we fill up the time requirement which is like 40 horus on each module. I mean COME ON! Thats no excuse, it makes me so frustrateddd!!
GRRRR…

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Ideas for promoting a Web Course at TAFE

Over the past few years we haven’t done any specific promotion for our Website Design course here at Wentworth Falls TAFE. I guess during the IT boom of the late nineties/early naughties there wasn’t any need to promote Website Design courses… the demand for web designers/developers was incredible – but that’s not the case now.

There . . . → Read More: Ideas for promoting a Web Course at TAFE

A guide to blended Learning in the knowledge era…

A dynamic resource for facilitators who are used to centralised information sources to ease their transition towards the distribution of free tools available now and in the future. . . . → Read More: A guide to blended Learning in the knowledge era…

Beyond the Learning Management System

Seems to me there’s been a whole bunch of articles and blogs lately putting forward the idea that the LMS will be a thing of the past… well not exactly, but perhaps not so… central to student learning.

After arguing that we’ve been pursuing systems to impose bureaurocratic control rather than empower the learner, Parkin’s argues on . . . → Read More: Beyond the Learning Management System

Teaching Website Design

As second semester 2004 is drawing to a close, I find myself experiencing (yet again) the frustration of “last-minute learning” in my Web Design class – and I want to do something about it for next semester.

The problem

The more I think about it, the complete process of designing and implementing a website for a client is . . . → Read More: Teaching Website Design