Thank you all , The reason I asked about this is many times I found many times people pay attention to the form more, in my own teachinhg practice , including some ( very small ) part of Elearning was a good choice , coz internet technology has opened up many new exciting avenues for learning providers to explore in trying to promote and encourage learning at all levels.
The concept of learning-on-demand( or learning at needs ) increases relevancy. The concept of anytime, anywhere learning promotes lifelong learning and makes distance a problem of the past. However, to promote use of an formal e-learning site and to retain customers at the site, there is a need to redefine the "e" from formally meaning "electronic" to include the meaning of "experience," "engagement," and other high level contexts. Then, there is a chance to provide appropriate attention to content development and to return to the basics and fundamentals of a teacher-learner situation. I am a Chinese teacher of college I teach mass media research , To further reflect on my own teaching , that is why I asked the question , last year I began to introduce my students with the idea of networked learning , however I found it is not helpful for most of students ( for most of them it is just the tool) ,for so called self-regulated learning ,most of them need to be helped in many ways , and the assignment they gave me are full of data , but lack of a clear focus and logic , and some are too messy to read , with some fancy stuff they are trying to impress me , and some of them don't know how to give a good presentation ,one of my students called Kevin .his final assignment is called The problems and solutions of self-learning,you can watch his slides here <http://www.haokanbu.com/story/5258/>, ( he is one of my favourite students) he did a survey based research on how his peer classmate treat the web2.0 technology and found amazing result , let me know if you are famliare with this situation , If it is really the learning are different , but how ? and how as a teacher can trigger these kind of learning happen ? and I totally agree with what Derek said , I think sometimes we just need a term to make a difference , like education2.0 , when people despise this term ,however manytimes they still use this term to talk about things . Stephen , thank you for your feedback , would you please specify with what is exactly the type of thing or learning to make Elearning different , or it is just a mindset thing like Derek said ? Thank you Leo 2008/7/15 Stephen Downes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > we don't talk about "ppLearning" (pencil & paper > learning) or "cbLearning" (chalk board learning) > > No - but we do talk about 'group learning' and 'rote learning' and > 'programmed learning' (among others). So maybe we should regard it as a > historical quirk that the chalkboard and the pen and paper don't get a > mention when we talk about types of learning. > > The question is whether the internet (or other variants of e-) constitute a > form of learning that is distinct. And - with things like Web 2.0 and blogs > and wikis and all that - I think that the e- *does* constitute a type of > learning fundamentally different from the pen and paper, both in terms of > methodology, and in terms of result. > > -- Stephen > > > valerie wrote: > > It's all about Learning. > > As someone observed, we don't talk about "ppLearning" (pencil & paper > learning) or "cbLearning" (chalk board learning) - the "e" is just a > tool and part of the process. However, it does provide many new > possibilities to support a much larger and more diverse population of > learners. > > > > On Jul 13, 5:45 am, "Wong Leo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This is the question I have been thinking , > what do you think ? > > Leo > > -- > HELP 项目论坛https://groups.google.com/group/helpelephantsliveproject > > > > -- > --- > > Stephen Downes ~ Researcher ~ National Research Council > Canadahttp://www.downes.ca ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** Free Learning > > > > > -- HELP 项目论坛 https://groups.google.com/group/helpelephantsliveproject --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
