Distributed metadata and many other things
24-April-2005
permalinkWhilst e-learning really is about learning - and that learning is often episodic, conjunctual and non sequential, e-learning system are mainly for the benefit of managing learning and for teaching. Thsi is a big contradiction.. ..perhaps we would do better if school and universities concentrated on face to face and traditional teaching and e-learning was focused on learning which takes place outside the formal eductaion systems.
Third and final presnentation of my Finish trip - this time the theme was 'Opening Frontiers in Learning - The Growing Movement in Open Source'. Just before we started they told me that as one speaker was ill I had about 45 minutes to present - quickly added new slides in. Think I misjudged by audience this time - slides were OK but lots of my presentation f was too techncial. Trying to talk of the significance of social netwrking when some of audience did not know what a blog was. Mixed audiences at these conferences a bit difficult - really need newbies and advanced sessions - lots aeree coming to sysmposia on Open Source but have very different nees in tersm of learning and discussion.
Stil some great questions following the presentation especially re metadata, learning objects and the social orgnaisation of the Open ~Source sofwtare community.
Afterwards discussions continued in the coffee bar with Samuli Karevaara, Jussi Kurikka and Mika Saarinen.
Wide ranging talk including how to move from islands of innovation in the use of ICT in education to more generalised innovation in practice and how to recognise and build on innovation.
One point made was the need to accept that many projects and developments will despite the best efforts of project developers fail. This is inevitable and provides a valuable learning opportuinty. However the present climate where all projects must be 'seen' to suceed prevents us learning from failures.
More dicussions about the relationship between formal, background knowledge and continuing learning. To what extent does formal knowledge acquisition need to ber controlled, ordered and sequenced?
The point was made that whilst e-learning really is about learning - and that learning is often episodic, conjunctual and non sequential, e-learning system are mainly for the benefit of managing learning and for teaching. Thsi is a big contradiction.. ..perhaps we would do better if school and universities concentrated on face to face and traditional teaching and e-learning was focused on learning which takes place outside the formal eductaion systems.
Finnish joke came up which I had not heard before - girl goes into the attic and finds a typewriter - she rushes down - "daddy, daddy, I've found a printer which works in real time". Reminds me of my duaghter who once asked me comuters worked before we invented electricity.
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Wide ranging talk including how to move from islands of innovation in the use of ICT in education to more generalised innovation in practice and how to recognise and build on innovation.
One point made was the need to accept that many projects and developments will despite the best efforts of project developers fail. This is inevitable and provides a valuable learning opportuinty. However the present climate where all projects must be 'seen' to suceed prevents us learning from failures.
More dicussions about the relationship between formal, background knowledge and continuing learning. To what extent does formal knowledge acquisition need to ber controlled, ordered and sequenced?
The point was made that whilst e-learning really is about learning - and that learning is often episodic, conjunctual and non sequential, e-learning system are mainly for the benefit of managing learning and for teaching. Thsi is a big contradiction.. ..perhaps we would do better if school and universities concentrated on face to face and traditional teaching and e-learning was focused on learning which takes place outside the formal eductaion systems.
Finnish joke came up which I had not heard before - girl goes into the attic and finds a typewriter - she rushes down - "daddy, daddy, I've found a printer which works in real time". Reminds me of my duaghter who once asked me comuters worked before we invented electricity.
