Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Turkington, Tara
• Frank, Richard

Titel

DITonline: A journalistic experiment in blended, collaborative teaching and learning

Ist Teil von

• International journal of education and development using information and communication technology, 2005-07, Vol.1 (2), p.145

Ort / Verlag

Bridgetown: University of the West Indies

Erscheinungsjahr

2005

Quelle

Free E-Journal (出版社公開部分のみ）

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• DITonline is an independent, daily news website run by students, for students, at the Durban Institute of Technology (DIT) in Durban, South Africa. The website is a collaborative project, emanating from blended teaching and learning environments in the university's journalism department. DITonline was launched in August 2003, in response to a need for a credible student publication which would be an independent and reliable news source and which would provide a training ground for student journalists. By June 2004 more than 100 students had contributed to the site, which now attracts thousands of hits each day. This paper discusses the philosophical underpinnings of the project, and the growth of the site in terms of contributors, content served and its user community. Particular attention is paid to the development of student collaboration in the cyclical context of action research. The paper is mostly narrative, as we seek to document the growth of DITonline as a collaborative teaching and learning environment. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]