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Wednesday, January 09, 2008
Growing Pains: The Emergence of E-Learning - By Annie Hayes, Training Zone
If you are reading this you may already have a burgeoning interest in online learning / e-learning or at least a growing level of curiosity. You may also have an idea of what you think it is, but as the concept gets ever more complex the definition becomes as changeable as it does. One accepted definition is any type of learning that is delivered, enabled or mediated using electronic technology. Today that may even mean via a blackberry or Facebook profile. Allison Rossett, of San Diego University, offers further enlightenment. She uses the terms 'stuff' and 'stir'. The 'stuff', she says, is the reusable web objects which are deployed on a corporate internet and, according to Martyn Sloman, adviser, training, learning and development at the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) and author of The E-learning Revolution, is what most people mean when they refer to e-learning. The 'stir' refers to the collaborative tools of e-learning: the online discussions and virtual classrooms, and what Sloman slams as having 'an unholy hype' attached. This is the transfer of learning via social networking for example.
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