{"id":327,"date":"2006-03-22T21:42:05","date_gmt":"2006-03-23T04:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/?p=327"},"modified":"2006-03-22T21:42:05","modified_gmt":"2006-03-23T04:42:05","slug":"elearning-20-plus-ca-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/2006\/03\/elearning-20-plus-ca-change\/","title":{"rendered":"eLearning 2.0 – Plus ca change?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tony Karrer asks on http:\/\/elearningtech.blogspot.com<\/a>, “Is eLearning 2.0 Meaningful?<\/a>“<\/p>\n

I’ve been involved in eLearning somehow since about 2000, and I’m not sure that eLearning 2.0 is any different from the kind of talk around at that point – ‘let’s have less shovelware<\/a>‘, or ‘guide on the side, rather than sage on the stage’. These calls for learner centred approaches to teaching seem similar to the concepts behind eLearning 2.0.<\/p>\n

At a recent talk (blogged below<\/a>) Matthew Pittinsky from Blackboard suggested that eLearning 2.0 was about (among other things) social networks. This, I would suggest, is nothing new – surely the concept of a school, college or University is about a community of learning, where social networks form, and you learn from your peers as well as from you teacher or tutor.<\/p>\n

Matthew asked where the scholarly equivalent of Facebook<\/a> or Furl<\/a> was – but the truth is that academics have long shared information within their communities via papers, books and conferences. In the virtual world, email is now a mainstay of the academic community.<\/p>\n

So – what is different about eLearning 2.0? To some extent I believe that eLearning 2.0 is simply a continuation of what went before – we have to continue to press for learner centred teaching, which engages the students in a dialogue with their tutor and their peers. If we can use ‘eLearning 2.0’ to sell this, and get the community engaged in the Web 2.0 tools that can support it, then that’s great.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tony Karrer asks on http:\/\/elearningtech.blogspot.com, “Is eLearning 2.0 Meaningful?“ I’ve been involved in eLearning somehow since about 2000, and I’m not sure that eLearning 2.0 is any different from the kind of talk around at that point – ‘let’s have less shovelware‘, or ‘guide on the side, rather than sage on the stage’. These calls […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-e-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}