The Zen Art of Teaching

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The Zen Art of Teaching
Communication and Interactions in eEducation
Peter Baumgartner
FernUniversitaet in Hagen
Key words: Content Management Systems, Teaching Models, Weblogs in Education,
Abstract:
Weblogs are one of the most discussed trends in business and education alike. From
all these comments and publications it is clear that weblogs will have a bright future
as a personal web publishing tool, but will they also invade the education and business
areas? And more important: will their widespread use mean just another tool or
a radical change? - The line of argument in this paper is twofold: On the one hand we
will outline some major requirements for an advanced educational environment by
showing that weblogs’ inherent features will map these pedagogical needs. On the
other hand we will compare weblogs with other kinds of content management systems
and we will strive to give evidence that weblogs have the intrinsic potential to revolutionise
the organisational structure of traditional education.
1 Three prototypical models of education
1.1 To transfer knowledge (Teaching I)
In this model the origin of students’ knowledge is based on knowledge possessed by the
teacher. Teachers know what students need to learn and it is the teachers’ responsibility…