Hi Randy, I'll admit it's nice to see a lot of money thrown at a specific task, especially if it comes from a private purse & is for the public good. But, as i read Tony's last entry and consider his perspective, the big difference is that the initiatives you point at are so parochial, and don't advance the "open" approach. Certainly they will save a lot of money on the physical stuff and that's great. But as Carol Twigg, CEO and president of the National Center for Academic Transformation, might say, the problem with initiatives that simply aim at "producing resources" is that they can tend to become "just another repository scheme."<http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2011/12/07/khan-academy-ponders-what-it-can-teach-higher-education-establishment>
The biggest problem we do have at the moment is not a lack of "learning resources" but a culture which brings together people who are working on (researching/educating/learning) the same/similar thing(s); or at least has them looking for global peers with who(m) they can co-produce (one resource well, not many times half-baked). The concept of spoon feeding, using content which outdated on it's publication date, is not a pedagogy for the times we live in. Even the formats in which these resources are produced often appear pretty dated; text and graphics on a static page is OK but colour and movement are now the social norm. Just as importantly people don't just want a piece of media put in front of them. They want to be/feel involved with what's going on, regardless of age. Until then all they can do is point at repositories, whose librarians or community are nowhere to be found. Pretty dull eh? -- 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]
