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, August 01, 2002

http://www.elearningmag.com/elearning/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=26850

The Illusion of E-learning: Why We Are Missing Out On the Promise of IP Technology
Frank L. Greenagel, managing director, Guided Learning Strategies

E-learning has not kept pace with the development of increasingly rich IP-based delivery platforms because the e-learning experience is, far too often, puerile, boring and of unknown or doubtful effectiveness. Developers don't seem to be aware of how people learn, for they continue to use mostly flawed models. Corporations are more interested in throughput and low unit cost, so solid measures of effectiveness are infrequently developed or applied. The available platform drives the instructional strategy, which may not be appropriate to the learning style of trainees or to the learning objectives....


 



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