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It's common to think of your lecturer as the fount of all knowledge
in the classroom. I think it is important to dispel that myth right
from the start.
If I am going to be consistent with the ideas I am presenting to
you, I can't sit here and present to you a pile of information and
expect you to reproduce that knowledge in the exam or in a series
of essays. I really need to be practicing what I preach .
If you are active participants in the learning process for
this unit, my role is to facilitate your learning, provide
the conditions for you to be active in that learning, prepare and
present ideas for you to consider and provide guidelines for you
to use in the learning process.
I guess the other thing is that is it probably easy for me to say
this, but how easy is it for you to suddenly change the way you
learn just for this unit. If the idea of being an active learner
is a bit foreign and daunting, don't worry the idea of being an
active learner when I'm the teacher is a bit daunting as well.
Some of you will find this a bit of a struggle and really that
is part of the whole learning process. Don't worry! Stay cool! Part
of my job is also to be able to support you in your learning. I'm
on the end of a phone and sitting at a computer screen most of the
time and if you're nervous about what to do or not coping with a
new way of doing things, call me, lets talk and work out a way of
getting around your difficulties and making a success of your studies.
It's a whole new learning experience. Teaching from a textbook
or telling you to read and regurgitate isn't going to make the type
of things we talk about in this unit real. We are confident we've
been able to create something here that helps real learning to happen,
and we're here to support you in what might be quite a new experience
for you in an educational setting.
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