Electronic delivery of curriculum: preproduction of cyberscripts

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Title: Electronic delivery of curriculum: preproduction of cyberscripts
Author(s): Arnold, Josie; Vigo, Kitty
Abstract: New systems for delivering curriculum are creating new challenges for academics. The continuing development of new electronic concepts and approaches produce new literacies. These relate to new ways of 'writing' curriculum, new relationships between the learner and the teacher and new paradigms of discourse. This paper looks at how academics might go about transforming their print-based materials so as to explore the opportunities offered by the new writing technologies. It proposes that electronic textuality and discourse, like all writing, has a structure and form. Even the fluid and singular writing for the new multilayered virtual spaces provided by the emergent electronic culture needs concept planning and preproduction scripts. It argues that the fluidity provided by the new electronic textuality itself still needs to be approached through a process of planning, trying out, imagining, conceiving and communicating to oneself and to others. It investigates how this involves writing a multi-layered script and explores the possibilities offered by electronic texts such as: the provision of immediate information; an interplay of the seen, the heard and the read; the introduction of virtuality, interactivity, immediacy and self-authority. In doing so, it establishes a process which will enable academics to construct their curricula fully by exploiting the differences offered by new writing techniques.
Publication type: Conference paper
Research centre: Swinburne University of Technology. Lilydale Campus
Source: Proceedings of 'Systems development methods for databases, enterprise modeling, and workflow management', the 8th International Conference on Information Systems and Development: Methods and Tools, Theory and Practice (ISD 1999), Boise, Idaho, United States, 11-13 August 1999 / Wita Wojtkowski (ed.), pp. 441-453
Publication year: 1999
Keyword(s): CD ROM; Curriculum design; Interactive learning; Multimedia; Semiotic; Virtual education; Web-based instruction
Publisher: Kluwer Academic
ISBN: 9780306462993, 0306462990
Publisher URL: http://www.springer.com/computer/swe/book/978-0-306-46299-3
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