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Thursday, October 03, 2002
http://www.syllabus.com/article.asp?id=6703 Syllabus2002 Conference Review: Innovations Battle Budgets for eLearning Market Share Paul McCloskey In a recent survey of university students asked to react to an online study companion for a course on Homer, a student at the U.K.’s Open University, said, “I wish I’d had (the CD-ROM) before—there’s no other way to pick up certain things ... you can be like a scholar.” For the teacher, the comment captured the essence of eLearning: not only to make learning more convenient, but to give students tools for exploring material in personal and active ways, like scholars do. “When you’re sitting there in a lecture, when you’re sitting there reading a book, you can’t deconstruct it,” said eLearning evangelist Diana Laurillard. “The whole point of these great technologies is that they make the student more active in their learning. They’re not just transmission of an idea ...but facilitating their coming to an understanding of what we know.”...
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