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Changing to learn: learning to change
No full textThis paper provides an overview of the use of 'communication and information technologies' (C&IT) in social work education in Britain. It outlines the development of the use of 'learning technologies' generally, and focuses specifically, on the impact of 'learning technology' in social work education and training. It looks at various factors influential in achieving, or blocking, cultural change in higher education, which may be of interest to social work educators in other countries
SWAP, the Higher Education Academy (HEA) subject centre for Social Policy and Social Work web archive
No full textSWAP, the Higher Education Academy (HEA) subject centre for Social Policy and Social Work, hosted at the University of Southampton between 2000 and 2012, has been one of 24 HEA Subject Centres and supports social policy and social work programmes in UK Universities. Initially funded by the Higher Education Funding Councils and part of the Learning and Teaching Support Network (LTSN) the subject centres merged in 2004 with the Institute for Learning and Teaching to form the Higher Education Academy.This archive contains the www.swap.ac.uk site as it was in December 2015. All the key project reports, case studies and other resources are available here and are also held in SWAPBox (www.swapbox.ac.uk).<br/
The Centre for Human Service Technology (CHST) website archive
No full textThe Centre for Human Service Technology (CHST) was an international and multi-disciplinary research centre focused on influencing the appropriate use of technology in social work practice and education and researching its implementation and impact. This is an archive of the website created to host on-line information
Critical Commentaries: shifting paradigms of information technology in social work education and practice
No full textFit for virtual social work practice?
No full textThe paper considers the levels of coherence and dissonance between the education and training needs of social work practitioners working in a virtual environment and the focus of the requirements and learning and teaching approaches currently in use on social work programmes within education settings in England. The paper argues a gap exists in the way information and communication skills are currently conceptualised to support the education and training of social workers. It appears that e-learning is often considered in relation to its functional advantages and that similarly ICT skills are considered in terms of computer program literacy. The much wider question of the development of competence for virtual practice and how e-learning may support this development require much greater consideration and application
Building capacity for the social work degree: a scoping study for the Department of Health E-Learning steering group
No full textA Scoping Study commissioned by the Department of Health elearning Steering Group
was undertaken between December 2002 and March 2003. It is the first phase of an
outline programme that has been formulated during the reform project to build elearning
capacity in the social work education sector over a five-year period. The aims of the twophased
study were:
1. To establish the current picture regarding elearning developments within social work
higher education programmes;
2. To establish what elearning resources exist to support learning in the social work
degree;
3. To commission a modest set of elearning resource development activities and;
4. To make recommendations to build elearning capacity to support the social work
degree
Technology-supported learning and teaching in social work in the UK: a critical overview of the past, present and possible futures
No full textThis paper uses the authors' extensive involvement in e-learning development activities in social care and social work education since the 1990s to explore trends and developments in uptake of technologies for learning and teaching. The paper utilises predictions of papers and reports written between five and ten years ago to critically reflect on past, present and possible future developments for technology use in the sector. The paper tracks milestones in the authors' experiences and reports on evaluative activity associated with later projects that offers some insights into technological preferences of educators, as well as highlighting wider issues in higher education and society impacting use of technologies by both staff and students. The paper's final section touches on a small selection of areas of technology development that may impact the sector and closes with a cautionary view of the ethical minefield posed by personal and professional use of Internet tools and sites
Building skills into the curriculum: a guide to meeting the requirement for social work degree students to achieve information and communication technology skills
No full textThis guide provides a demonstration of how elements of the seven modules of the European Computer Driving Licence (ECDL) can be integrated into your social work programme and provides some detailed examples in the Appendix 1.This guidance document is relevant to all four countries of the UK
Editorial. Social work in the digital age
No full textInleiding op een themanummer van British Journal of Social Work over sociaal werk in de digitale samenleving
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