Too busy doing it to talk about it
26-July-2005
permalink email thisYes its true. I know I have been quiet lately but have been tied up in meetings. Last week I was in Bristol for a meeting of the JISC eLearning programme, for which I am evaluator. And Wednesday to Saturday was a meeting of the ASSIPA project on self evaluation for teachers.
I have a contract to help develop the e-learning version of the self evaluation course. As I wrote earlier, here and here, we are planning to create a blog, written by a 'virtual' or fictitious learner, Sarah Jones, around which to construct a learning narrative and as a link to learning materials and activities. As (real) learners work through the blog they can reply to sarah Jones entries and build up their own learning record or diary through the ir own blog. Their blogs will, in turn, become source material for future learners.
Our Italian parters, led by Elaria Mascitti from FORCOM, videod the entire workshop, which was based on a series of experiential learning activities. I hope to be able to produce a number of shortish videos of the different activities as part of the e-learning materials.
I was a little worried before the meeting that the idea would be too radical for the partners but everyone was into it. I increasingly feel that most elearning developers - or at least researchers know that present elearning pedagogies do not work and are looking for alternatives. What seems to be holding people back is the unwillingness of institutions to experiment.
OK, thats all for now. I have a notebook full of ideas for future posts - will try to put aside 20 minutes a day to write some of them up.
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