On Jun 5, 2005, at 12:49 PM, Marian Petrides wrote:
All of this is likely true, but there are educational markets (higher
ed, adult distance learning, etc.) where the "panacea" of web based
course materials is still in vogue and where it might actually work.
Mind you, like everyone on this list (I suspect), I'm well aware of
the limitations of web delivery. But the people above me who make the
decisions--the folks who are, frankly, only marginally computer
literate--still see it as a panacea. Some of them are "educable,"
i.e. can be convinced of the reasons why truly interactive apps are
better developed as standalone apps, but many may never see the light.
M
Marian
I used to study in a good high tech university which was a private and
expensive one (called puc, the catholical university), they had no
problem there with rich clients and were all for experimentation and
research, time passed and I transfered to a federal one (public ones
are better here and they are free). In my new university we have the
same marinally computer literate folks that you have in there. Brazil
is a huge country and we're now forced by the federal gov to create a
distance learning tool for those in rural areas. If you could just see
the monster they created, imagine this: HTML + Microsoft Word
documents. I tried to talk to them, it was something along this lines:
DIRECTOR: "So you think you have a better solution?"
ME: "Yes, I do. In PUC we had a very high level tool which is far more
advanced than this one and far easier to work out"
DIRECTOR: "But it runs in a browser?"
ME: "No, it runs on itself."
DIRECTOR: "It needs to run in a browser!"
ME: "You know, browsers are not operating systems, things should not
need to run in a browser..."
DIRECTOR: "Our current solution runs in a browser."
ME: "Your current solution is an index of word documents and email
chatting. That is not a solution and will be a problem soon."
DIRECTOR: "If it does not runs in a browser, we're not interested."
So I guess the problem is true everywere, here they got the national
motto of suporting linux and the OSS crowd, so they migrated my campus
all to linux. Now think, how a film school student is able to edit
videos in linux and how a jornalist student is able to format a
magazine/jornal without pagemaker/inDesign/Quark!?
I don't have any solution for those cases...
andre
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Andre Alves Garzia 2004
Soap Dog Studios - BRAZIL
http://studio.soapdog.org
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