Much Ado About Nothing? Revitalizing Literature teaching and learning in Higher Education through ICT
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Much Ado About Nothing? Revitalizing Literature teaching and learning in Higher Education through ICTAutoría
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2014Editor
Universitat Jaume IISSN
1139-5486Cita bibliográfica
BORT-MIR, Lorena. Much Ado About Nothing? Revitalizing Literature teaching and learning in Higher Education through ICT. Fòrum de recerca, 2014, núm. 19, p. 719-727.Tipo de documento
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Is the use of ICT overestimated, or is it really an important part of today
teaching and learning? If it is important, how can technology make a great
impact to the teaching and learning of Literature?
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Is the use of ICT overestimated, or is it really an important part of today
teaching and learning? If it is important, how can technology make a great
impact to the teaching and learning of Literature?
This paper tries to an answer these questions taking into account all
the improvements that technology introduces to education, and analyzing
some of the criticism that surrounds this issue as well; we base our
research on a qualitative analysis in which we collect the opinions of some
students and teachers from some of the Literature classes of the English
Studies Degree at Jaume I University about the needs for a correct use of
technology in the classroom. This analysis suggests that integrating ICT into
Higher Education is necessary for improving the learning process and for
better acquiring the EHEA (European Higher Education Area)
competencies; the paper concludes that there is a need for revitalizing the
teaching and learning of Literature subjects because of the many benefits
that the study of Literature brings to the student.
The paper follows pointing out some of the reasons why most of the
teachers refuse to use technology in their classes. Teachers are an
important pillar for this integration, but it is not them on their own who
must make this integration come true. Changes coming from this
technological integration imply a process of systematization, formalization,
monitoring and evaluation, and this can only be done by institutions.
Further conclusions point at the fact that there is still much work to do
for a correct integration of ICT onto education. We also point out that there
is a growing need for training teachers in the proper use of technology, and
that there is also a need to make students realize of how important the
study of Literature is for their learning development. Technology can do so. [-]
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XIX Jornades de Foment de la Investigació de la Facultat de Ciències Humanes i Socials (Any 2014)
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Fòrum de recerca, 2014, núm. 19Derechos de acceso
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