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- Vol 7 PE: App D
digital pedagogytechnology affordancesmedia selectionblended teachingonline teachinglearner activityinstructor presencedigital judgmentBook Evidence summaryAt a glance
Bates provides a decision framework for designing teaching when digital technologies reshape access, communication, and the skills learners need.
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The open textbook connects epistemological assumptions with teaching methods, course organisation, student diversity, media choice, assessment, open education, and institutional support. Its SECTIONS framework prompts educators to consider students, ease of use, cost, teaching functions, interaction, organisational issues, networking, and security or privacy when selecting media. Bates argues that technology choices should follow learning goals and the distinctive affordances of media rather than novelty. Quality online and blended teaching requires purposeful structure, learner activity, instructor presence, feedback, accessible support, and continuing evaluation.
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For educators, the book offers practical guidance for deciding what should happen face to face or online and for helping students develop knowledge, digital judgment, communication, and independent-learning capabilities.
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