At 15:14 20/05/02 +0100, Peter Trethewey wrote: >Ufi/learndirect must be the best source of students' impression of online >learning. If it's used away from a centre it needs a highly motivated >individual to plod through what can be a lonely tedious process. > >The Online Tutoring course that I recently completed using WebCT WAS HARD. >Give me group with teacher over online learning any day. > > It does require a lot of motivation (and other things) to be an online learner. However, I think the great majority of uses of VLEs will be to complement, not replace, face to face teaching. Geoff Minshull Direct Learn Training Online services to education, project management and evaluation, deafness/disability consultancy Web: http://www.directlearn.co.uk/ - last updated 08.04.02 Tel: 01629 540386 Fax: 01629 540820 Mob: 0771 264 7600 ***************** 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