Volume 5 Issue 1

"Multimedia drives education future"

"Electronic classroom education's reality"

"Superhighway - make or break education?"

"Internet - school of the future?"

Brian Gibson*

Computer based learning receives a diverse press, particularly as it relates to higher education. As a learning strategy, it offers benefits to students but challenges traditional modes of teaching. There is a tendency to see computer based learning purely as a technological tool that has been forged by recent advances in the silicon chip. However, there have been other developments that may ensure computer based learning survives its second or third resurrection. More attention is being paid to higher levels of learning such as student-centred learning or collaborative learning and if these strategies can be harnessed in conjunction with developments in technology then the survival of computer based learning seems assured.

* Dip. Teach., B. Ed., Grad. Dip. Bus. Computer Assisted Learning Officer School of Commerce and Law University of Tasmania