Hi everyone: John Gundry (hallo there john!) raises many questions
and issues concerning the Manifesto in Networked E-Learning.
I'm not about to try to answer them!! The document, as you correctly
point out John, is a "start" and from our perspective was produced as
a way of creating awareness about the issues, and starting discussion
about them.
It's a document that was produced by a large group of people from
Lancaster, Glasgow, Coventry and Sheffield universities. As you might
expect, each of the people involved in producing it have their own
personal views on it. It's impossible to produce a document like this
that all authors can support in every detail, one hundred percent. So
there is discussion and debate amongst ourselves about it. Clearly it
requires consideration and reconstruction by others, from their
perspective as subject specialist (eg mathemetician etc) and from
their location in the public and private sector.
But it does derive from a set of educational values, and a certain
view of education, which we believe to be important at the moment.
That (to me) is the central message: I would want to ensure that
e-learning is critically debated and that it becomes an area of
learning, teaching, development and training that fosters high
quality learning relationships and outcomes - all embedded in good,
creative practice.
David
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University of Sheffield, 388 Glossop Road, Sheffield, S10 2JA, England, UK.
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