Book chapter
The Anangu Tertiary Education Program in remote northwest South Australia: A CHAT perspective
Activity Theory, Authentic Learning and Emerging Technologies: Towards a Transformative Higher Education Pedagogy, pp.32-45
Routledge
2014
Abstract
This chapter explains how an authentic task can be designed to work within students ZPD using collaborative cloud-based technologies to mediate their engagement with a MKO and thus increase their learning potential. The module reported in the chapter is one of the four modules of a blended postgraduate programme in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in Education at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. The second module Educational ICT in developing contexts, focuses on the use of ubiquitous technologies in resource-constrained environments. It is therefore important to understand the affordances of tools, and appropriately match them with the object of the activity system. The chapter reports on the role of emerging technologies in mediating learning in a postgraduate program. It provides a way of using emerging technologies to design authentic learning tasks that mediate learning within a learner's ZPD through a most knowledgeable other in a postgraduate course at a higher education institution.
Details
- Title
- The Anangu Tertiary Education Program in remote northwest South Australia: A CHAT perspective
- Authors
- Denise Wood (Author) - Central Queensland UniversityD Tedmanson (Author) - University of South AustraliaBruce Underwood (Author) - University of South AustraliaMakinti Minutjukur (Author) - Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Education Committee (Pukatja, South Australia) - PYECK Tjitayi (Author)
- Contributors
- V Bozalek (Editor) - University of the Western CapeD Ng'ambi (Editor) - University of Cape TownDenise Wood (Editor) - Central Queensland UniversityJ Herrington (Editor) - Murdoch UniversityJ Hardman (Editor) - University of Cape TownA Amory (Editor) - University of Johannesburg
- Publication details
- Activity Theory, Authentic Learning and Emerging Technologies: Towards a Transformative Higher Education Pedagogy, pp.32-45
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Date published
- 2014
- DOI
- 10.4324/9781315771823-5; 10.4324/9781315771823
- ISBN
- 9781315771823
- Organisation Unit
- Office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic); University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; Office of the Pro Vice-Chancellor (Students)
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99513896902621
- Output Type
- Book chapter
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