On 20 May 2002, at 15:57, Sam Brenton wrote:
> >I still feel that we are expecting far too much from VLEs and MLEs. They are
> >NOT a replacement of the group and the teacher, they are 'JUST ANOTHER
> >TOOL'. Anyone who tells you otherwise is a liar!
> It is if you're delivering distance learning qualifications by distance
> learning to, say, part-time learners sometimes 100s or 1000s of miles away.
if good use is made of the interaction components of a VLE
(whiteboard, chat, email, bulletin board, &c. &c. ) then the VLE is
indeed a tool - or conduit - for learner-teacher and learner-group
interactions, whatever the distance. it's a Virtual Learning
*Environment*, not an Automatic Teaching Robot. it's important
that the lecturers on the ground understand this, or else they'll dig
their heels in when you try to implement your VLE out of sheer
paranoia.
[as an aside, this is kind of analogous to when the Musician's
Union tried to ban digital samplers...they missed the point entirely]
***************** List information: *****************
Remember - replies go by default to the entire list.
Access the list via the web on http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/vle.html
The Ferl VLE Focus Area is at http://ferl.becta.org.uk/display.cfm?page=76
To unsubscribe, email [log in to unmask] with the message: leave vle
|