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Recent developments in teaching practice have drawn upon a range of different IT tools including broad use of the internet, audience response systems, smart-phones and podcasting. These tools, when used in an appropriate manner reflecting both the needs of students’ and teachers’, have proved to be effective in enhancing the student experience across a number of measures. Put simply, there are multiple opportunities for the use of IT in teaching politics and our panel seeks to promote and spread innovative and best practice. Moving ahead in integrating IT into teaching political science, we are confronted by online courses and the prospect of degrees built entirely on distance learning. Already there are more than twenty different online degrees offered in political science as online courses have become more widespread globally in the last decade. It is certainly no coincidence that the Conference on Teaching & Learning organised by the American Political Science Association (APSA) has introduced into its 2013 programme, beside the already existing workshop on “Integrating IT in the Classroom”, a new topic and workshop on “Distance Learning”. Our Panel would welcome contributions dealing with the following topics: 1. Using IT in teaching political science in traditional campus-based environments 2. Online teaching in political science 3. Overall programme design for online degrees in political science Consciously we do not wish to narrow the topics further, as they are relatively new to the ECPR conference; and we would therefore like to see what specific questions and problems arise in the proposals in shaping specific panels for September 2013. We will ask that the papers be based at least partly on first-hand teaching experiences, as this aspect is a crucial characteristic of academic work on teaching and learning, and also within the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SOTL) literature.
| Title | Details |
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| Stepping into the Virtual Classroom - Stepping Out of Your Comfort Zone? The Roles of the Teacher in the Virtual Classroom | View Paper Details |
| Online Distance Learning as a Public Policy Tool for Development | View Paper Details |
| Writing in Public: The Benefits of Blogging for Assessment in Diplomatic Studies | View Paper Details |
| Emerging Issues and Opportunities in Online Learning | View Paper Details |
| Innovating European Studies through Blended Learning | View Paper Details |