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Tuesday, September 03, 2002
http://www.elearnspace.org/ern.html Elearning needs more simplicity George Siemens, Monday, September 02, 2002 Elearning needs more simplicity. The heart of the learning experience - student, instructor, content, institution - is often lost in technology. Learning management systems, content management systems, learning object repositories, etc, are of little value if they do not meet the needs of the student, instructor, and institution. Often, decisions are made that are very one-sided. For example, an institution decides that it wants to reduce the costs of developing elearning...and decides that learning objects are the solution. So what happens? After extensive high-level meetings (involving software and IT people, senior managers, CEO, CIO (or whoever)...anyone but the instructor and the student), a decision is made and passed down to the user level. It bombs. Why? Elearning lives and dies at the user level....
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