E-learning for Geography's Teaching and Learning Spaces

Abstract

The authors embed their advocacy of educational technology in a consideration of contemporary pedagogy in geography. They provide examples of e-learning from a wide range of teaching and learning contexts. They promote the idea that considering best practice with reference to educational technology will increase the versatility of teaching geography in higher education. On the basis of reviewing the pedagogic options associated with e-learning using a variety of technologies, and their promotion of versatility in the use of e-learning approaches, they find and illustrate the new spaces that have become available to teachers and learners of geography.

Keywords:

• e-learning
• educational technology
• ICT in geography
• flexible learning

Acknowledgements

The authors thank Eric Pawson for coordinating the INLT workshop where this paper was conceived, the anonymous reviewers who assisted in the birth (well over nine months later!) and Eric again for overseeing whole process. They would also like to thank Trudi James and Max Oulton for the illustrations.