by Aleks Krotoski, the Guardian
Dr Hamish Macleod, who lectures on e-learning at the University of Edinburgh, advises against using the technology solely for disseminating educational content. This model, he argues, leads to assumptions that online courses are less fulfilling than a campus course. “The online mode compels [teachers] to think more carefully about what one is doing and trying to achieve. I like the expression ‘the orchestration of experience’ as a description of what teachers do. I think this applies equally online and offline.” The web throws an interesting lens on approaches to education in general. “We are often implicitly being asked to compare [e-learning’s] effectiveness with the ‘gold standard’ of the didactic classroom approach. We really have limited evidence about just how effective these traditional approaches are,” Dr Macleod maintains.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/sep/04/internet-education-facebook-schools
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