A critical review of Laurillard's classification of educational media

✍ Scribed by Stephen J. Bostock

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 947 KB
• Volume: 24
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0020-4277
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00156004

✦ Synopsis

In Rethinking University Teaching Diana LauriUard classifies educational media, including the various uses of computers in education, into four categories: discursive, adaptive, interactive and reflective. This review discusses the consistency and usefulness of the classification. After summarising her development of a model of the teaching and learning processes in Higher Education, the relationship of the classification to the model is examined. First, the classification is mapped to the twelve processes in the model. Then, the described uses of various media for supporting these processes are correlated with their place in the classification. In this test of consistency with the model the classification is found to be only partly accurate. The shortcomings are discussed. Finally, other classifications are briefly considered and a framework for a pedagogically useful classification is described.