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Learner Autonomy
The availability of all these resources in tourism, whether paper-based books and journals or
web-based written, film or audio material supposes that learners will know how to be independent
learners and to be able to use these resources in a way which will allow them to construct
their own meanings and achieve their own learning objectives. However, as students
come from increasingly diverse backgrounds and previous learning experience it cannot be
assumed that this will always be so. It is therefore important for teachers to consider carefully
the curriculum design they adopt, and the skills that learners need in order to be able to make
effective use of the resources provided. This may include technological skills, skills of critical
thinking, analysis and evaluation or the organisation of resources, perhaps via a virtual learning
space where the staff retain control of availability of resources or where a core of resources
are centralised with others being freely available but not under the control of the teacher.
Resource-based learning may be considered an attractive approach when trying to
teach large numbers of students with less resource, and the use of virtual learning environments
(VLEs) can provide access to material as a substitute or in addition to face-toface
teaching. This can be approached in an incremental way (Gibbs & Parson, 1994) but
normally requires the teacher to organise material, or at least provide access to material. |
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Posted: 3-14-2009 08:21
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