The Future of e-Learning Models
The executive summary of
Mark Oehlert's November 2003 report,
The Future of e-Learning Models and the Language We Use to Describe Them, shines a light on darkness more than it charts a course for e-learning.
The goal of this report was not to provide a clean ending to the story of this research but rather should be viewed as a progress report. There is still a world to be covered. Recently the BBC has recently released plans to digitize and make public its entire archive of content. Programs like ‘bit torrent’ are offering new ways to distribute content while minimizing the impact on bandwidth. Movements like machinima are re-writing the precepts of content production. The surface has also just been scratched on such technologies as RSS, wiki, augmented reality, IM, and the power of an iPOD as a learning device.
More than ever, what you say about the future of e-learning depends on how you define it. Seemingly for the traditional attempts to replicate classrooms and courses online, the future is fairly bleak. If however, you define e-learning as an environment, rich in context, interaction and opportunities for collaboration - then the evidence seems to point to a bumpy road but with a worthy destination. more...
Emphasising the fluid nature of e-learning, the trend to M-learning, and cultural ignorance bedevilling organizational, vendor and user experiences, the
report offers a clear, cogent synopsis of the "...danger and opportunity represented in the future of e-learning."
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