Day three-More tools, learning management systems and mobile learning

Today we covered more web 2.0 tools such as pod and video casting, and digital story telling. Jong Hwa did a presentation of how he implemented the use of Moodle after he had attended my lectures a few years ago. This invited some lively debate about LMS's, Jong Hwa spent considerable time setting up Moodle and populating it with lots of resources but the students were lukewarm in their response. The debate centred around the different cultural approaches to learning in South Korea ie students expect to be told everything they need to know, they memorise and then regurgitate to pass exams. Self directed study is not implemented widely. Although the students identified that this was changing and there was a need o reconsider a the pedagogical approaches to teaching and learning