REAL-LIFE LEARNING: WHY, WHAT AND HOW?

摘要

This paper presents a personal perspective on the evolution of ICT education at university level in Australia. It focuses on the development of IT courses in Institutes of Technology, which had a real-life orientation and recruited their academic staff with this in mind. Issues relating to real-life learning are discussed with a warning on the need for vigilance against over-stressing the benefits of 'real-world' as opposed to 'mere theory'. The paper approaches this discussion by considering issues under the headings: why, what and how.