The most important things I learned this week were Nordgren’s list of important themes that must be solved in educational institutions in order to provide the future learning environment:
• Students owning their learning
• Standards and curricula that guide rather than dictate
• Constructivist teaching strategies that empower students
• Trust and adult supervision
• Democracy and empowerment
• Global Workforce Competence: Making schooling relevant to the workplace.
These upper points and rest of the text made me think. E-learning as a process gives a lot of freedom but at the same time more duties and responsibilities. What happen if these criteria are not suitable for some leaner and there is no force coming inside. Is e-learning not suitable then at all? Or is there something to do, to make it work?
As I already mentioned, I think that e-learning needs more responsibility. Everything you say or do is out to see for everyone (usually) and you have to be more careful and stable in words and actions that are being taken.
But at the same time, this opportunity to see others working process gives ideas and knowledge not only according to the product ( team work outcome for an example) but also how to achieve the best results in process.
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Your statement "E-learning as a process gives a lot of freedom but at the same time more duties and responsibilities" is an interesting observation. E-learning can be organized also in a very traditional way, basically a copy from a classroom course. However, while talking about adult education (universities, colleges, vocational training) it is a good phenomena that learners are going to be in the middle of the learning process taking responsibility and more duties. Some people talk about paradigm change in learning and teaching. So, higher education should focus on creating challenging situations for learners to practice, to take responsibility and control over one's studies, to make intelligent choices and face the consequences. A nicely designed e-learning course can be a good practice base and of course facilitators support should be available...
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Terje