new technology in the human services
Vol 9:4 pp28-32

Communities and welfare practice: learning through sharing by Liz Timms

Abstract This paper presents a case for embedding welfare practice in the context of community and for preparing for the demands of collaborative practice. Reviewing the process of launching online collaborative learning, attention is drawn to the different requirements on the educator and the principle of ensuring that educational, rather than technical goals, drive planning and delivery. Concluding comments refer to the potential of online learning for fostering inclusion, but warn that accessing and sustaining learning is likely to be impeded by technological obstructions such as unreliability and user-unfriendliness and material obstruction such as poverty.


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3 November 2000
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