A story from the fieldwork (1)

It's been a while since I updated this blog. As I've been traveling and collecting data, writting another application etc. I intend to update more stories from my interview cases and share it with the readers. In fact the case that I interviewed was a while ago but I've been listening to the story from the case which is very interesting for an educator like me. The student mentioned the use of online resources as a usual place to dump info. and non-textbook message to the students. Furthermore, some (not all) teachers frequently said "It's all there in the web! you just log in and will find it" to the students and that was directly reflected by the first participant in this study.

I also listen to the story of a business lecturer who refused to co-operate with the students in the online platform. What I heard is he/she would never accept any forms of online submission because it's never been good enough for the traditional academic! Strange but very interesting story. The students tried to negotiate but it seem to be really difficult to convincet this lecturer to change his/her mind. Strangely, this is the case of student at one of the top institutions in Australia, where almost all primary school kids in this country submitted their homeworks electronically!