Tuesday, November 09, 2004

Cognitive and Logical Rationales for e-Learning Objects This is a long pdf paper that appeared recently in Educational Technology & Society; the moderator and summarizer of the discussion is George von Brevern of the University of Bern. I first noticed an announcement about the paper in Distance-Educator.com Daily News. There is some heavy slogging through academic jargon and references in this presentation but careful readers will be rewarded by a complex and interesting analysis of the parameters of e-Learning. JH _____ "The motivation for this discussion is to look at the cognitive and logical rationales of e-Learning objects, which reside in computer-based e-Learning artefacts. e-Learning objects, the system to which they belong, and the sequence of messages that form a discourse between the system and its environment are inseparable.... When we talk about systems, we equally refer the discourse to e-Learning objects because they are the 'workers' of the system.... The sciences of instruction, learning, and knowledge are intricate and the 'e' before 'learning' adds another dimension of complexity while paving new learning paths for e-Learning." 2:59:15 PM    COMMENT []