Where would we be without the static web page[1]? This bastion of forgotten technology is probably one of the best places to start with my project because we seem to have moved on from it and yet not.
I see the static web page as a holder of critical information, a pointer to things needed. The static web page allows us to provide necessary information, the needful things. Where there are facts and figures to remember, the static web page comes in handy. Overviews and standard procedures are wonderfully served by the static web page.
I think it is useful for students to find that unchanging information is unchanging. Pedagogically, the structure of a course or program or activity should be unchanging at one level (the most broad level) so students (and their teachers) can chart their progress and improvement against a set standard or set of criteria. So the static web page points to expectations of students about what is to be learnt and, at the same time, what teachers/instructors expect – the outcomes of learning.
There are other ways of communicating this information, but, if we are focussing on technologies, the static web page and its traditional counterpart, the paper page, provide clear paths to learning outcomes.
- This is part of my Mapping Pedagogy project. [↩]
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