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Wednesday, July 21, 2004
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Cybernetics, e-learning and the education system - Oleg Liber

[via Seb whose post I link to in the previous posting] Outstanding!

"For those concerned about the constraints of the formal education system, VLEs at first seemed to offer new possibilities for learning. They promised to lift the constraints of time and geography, allowing learners to have access from any location at times suited to them, but while still allowing them to part of a learning community in constant contact, and not isolated distance learners. They offered the possibility of realising a range of pedagogical models embracing active, open, collaborative and learner-centred learning; and indeed, conceptually VLEs have the potential to deliver on these promises.
Unfortunately, the widespread adoption of VLEs by colleges and universities has seen the emergence of market leaders that while certainly providing for new models of access, do not promote pedagogical diversity, instead opting for an online version of the traditional delivery model. They do not provide learners with tools to organise themselves, they do not easily permit group learning, they do not easily support group or problem-based learning, and they do not easily integrate with the wider internet, instead creating a ‘learning ghetto’. On the internet, people are meeting each other in chat rooms, running Weblogs, engaging in various eGroups, answering each others’ questions on ‘Ask’ websites, and sharing resources using peer-to-peer systems: none of these features is typically available in leading VLEs."
[Oleg Liber] [[Emphasis mine]]


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Content Content Everywhere...

Yup, it's not going away, Seb hears content ... content ... content on his conference marathon and, well, immerse yourself in any Australian context and you're likely to have a similarly depressing experience: digital object managements systems, multimedia repositories, toolboxes, objects... objects... objects... objects :o(

Sigh, I recently [informally] heard some results of a pretty extensive survey into what students viewed as important in online learning and, guess what, content is up there too. This scares me a bit because it shouldn't be like that and you just know that the 'students are clients' perspective is going to say, 'well, then content we shall give them'. I do hope not.

Perhaps a couple of Dewey & Freireisms might help shift the perspective:

"I believe that all education proceeds by the participation of the individual in the social consciousness of the race… I believe that the only true education comes through the stimulation of the child's powers by the demands of the social situations in which he finds himself." (Dewey, 1897)

"…only through communication can human life hold meaning. The teacher's thinking is authenticated only by the authenticity of the students' thinking. The teacher cannot think for her students, nor can she impose her thought on them. Authentic thinking, thinking that is concerned about reality, does not take place in ivory tower isolation, but only in communication." (Freire, 1970)


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