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Part of the disappearance of the term 'e-learning' is due to the technology growing up a bit. It is becoming more integrated into the whole range of techniques available to teachers to support and enhance the learning and teaching process. We don't tend to produce papers on the use of the whiteboard marker these days :-) You just assume that such a tool is available when you want to put something quickly on a board for your students to read. Megan ILT Champion City of Stoke-on-Trent Sixth Form College. -----Original Message----- From: Virtual Learning Environments on behalf of Gianni Marconato Sent: Mon 07/03/2005 06:43 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [VLES] How widespread is the use of the term (and the concept) of "e-learning"? Apologises for cross-posting Dear List colleague Within our group of "learning with technologies" practitioners, we have been debating the use of the term "e-learning" to designate the educational use of technologies. As members of many international mailing lists in the field, we realised that the term "e-learning" is now much less frequently used that it once was. We have also noticed that within the titles of journals (printed and online), conferences, books and portals the term is disappearing and terms such as "learning", "teaching" and "technology" are being employed instead. What are your thoughts on this phenomenon? If you agree with our perception of this, what is the cause of this change in terminology? Our view is as follows. - The failure of the "e-learning approach" to enhance the learning experience (to use technologies for delivering contents/learning materials; to substitute analogical teaching/learning tools with digital ones) has created the change in terminology; - Within the "community of practice" of the people who use technologies to improve the learning outcomes at the individual and the educational systems levels, there is a growing awareness of the necessity of adopting a more pedagogically-based approach than the technologically-based one adopted in the early e-learning era; - To demonstrate a tangible added-value in the use of technologies to justify the added-cost, it is necessary to adopt an operational model which uses technologies not only in the online/distance learning settings, but also in face-to-face learning settings; - The use of technologies to enhance learning does not have to be based on the use of costly courseware, but rather on simpler and cheaper digital documents (for organising and delivering contents) and on communications and collaboration tools not necessarily arranged under the form of a complex LMS Regards Gianni Marconato -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.6.2 - Release Date: 04/03/2005 ***************** 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 To unsubscribe, email [log in to unmask] with the message: leave vle Disclaimer: This message (and any associated files) is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is confidential, subject to copyright or constitutes a trade secret. If you are not the intended recipient you are hereby notified that any dissemination, copying or distribution of this message, or files associated with this message, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer. Messages sent to and from us may be monitored. Internet communications cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. Therefore, we do not accept responsibility for any errors or omissions that are present in this message, or any attachment, that have arisen as a result of e-mail transmission. If verification is required, please request a hard-copy version. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the college. ***************** 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 To unsubscribe, email [log in to unmask] with the message: leave vle