Online Learning Update Ray Schroeder, editor, COLRS - Online@Illinois Springfield

Online Learning Update - a blog published daily since 2001 by Ray Schroeder, Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at Springfield

Saturday, June 08, 2002

http://www.syllabus.com/syllabusmagazine/article.asp?id=6400

Making Education Technology Translucent
Steven W. Gilbert

We always see through a glass at least a little darkly. There has never been a truly transparent medium, especially for teaching and learning. And there never will be. Educators and learners always make choices about the media in which teaching and learning are attempted. Every choice has consequences. When a professor steps out from behind the lectern, he or she changes whatever happens next. When a student approaches a faculty member with a question just before or after a class, he or she changes whatever happens next....



 



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