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

Thursday, July 18, 2002

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The future of learning: learning in a virtual world?
Jim FLOOD, Director of Learning, COROUS, The Open University UK

A learning revolution?
Much has been written about the revolution that e-learning will precipitate. Typical pronouncements by gurus on the subject suggest a massive paradigm shift that will sweep away conventional learning and replace it with a more cost-effective system that is available at my space, my pace, just in time and just for me. A pervasive error consists of seeing the technology as a way to improve the practices of contemporary school. In fact the technology makes them obsolete....


 



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