Day five-Presentation of completed work and summary

This was the last day of the program and we completed the exercise of creating a learning program. The students set up a wiki to design the program and then used tools like digital story telling and blogs to create the learning experience. They designed the summative assessment around the use of these tools and the result was an engaging program.

By the end of the exercise they could envisage the use of eLearning in their programs to engage students and implement a shift away from traditional expert centred delivery to one that was more self directed and collaborative. We discussed the future of eLearning and they felt that there was a move in Korea to explore a different approach to educational delivery although the need for flexibility was not so important there was a growing need to use technology to better engage students in the learning process.

The week long program was a success and I believe the most successful to date. Suk agreed with my impressions and we plan to write a joint article on eLearning comparing the Korean and Australian experiences in the use of eLearning. Korea and Australia have very different cultural backgrounds and their approaches to teaching and learning. Also, Korean educationalists may be more isolated from the international online eLearning community because of the language barrier, yet over the past 4 years I have observed similar in changes in teaching and learning in both countries, although at a slower rate in Korea.

It will be interesting to see what the learning landscape is in 2009 and how the two countries journey down the path of teaching and learning in the 21st Century.