The Internet has strengthened the idea that teachers are not the sole providers of knowledge. However, for many learners teachers never were.
2008/7/16 Stephen Downes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > there is a need to redefine the "e" from formally meaning "electronic" > to include the meaning of "experience," "engagement," and other high level > contexts. > > Well, no... > > While it is important about e-learning that it *can* include all of these > things, and that these are good things, it is more fundamentally important > that what e-learning enables is the capacity for choice on the part of the > learner. > > What this means is that it is up to the learner to choose whether he or she > wants learning to include experience, engagement, and the like, and to what > extent. There is no longer a sense of the teacher making these decisions for > the learner, and hence, no imperative to include these terms in a > definition. > > -- Stephen > > Wong Leo wrote: > > 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 > > > > -- > --- > > Stephen Downes ~ Researcher ~ National Research Council > Canadahttp://www.downes.ca ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** Free Learning > > > > > -- Nellie Deutsch Doctoral Student of Education http://www.nelliemuller.com http://www.integrating-technology.com/pd http://www.building-relationship.com/education http://blendedlear.ning.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
