Peter
The point you raise is an excellent one. I am organizing a meeting
of ILT members to discuss just this. In business and industry the
technology is being exploited to support business processes,
manage knowledge and deliver training, but how can we use this to
support HE and develop graduate skills. In many ways MLEs and
VLEs represent a retrograde step, back to a transmission model of
teaching.
As academics we need to influence the development if VLEs to
support best practise - not just good enough practice. I could even
suggest that we are seeing a MacDonaldisation of HE - that should
set some hares running.
Peter Waterhouse
DeMontfort University
Milton Keynes
On 8 Oct 2001, at 18:55, Peter Trethewey wrote:
> To help discussion, can I pose the following questions:
>
>
> MLE's offer "opportunities" which can be taken as "threats" depending
> where in the organisation you sit - this also determines the questions
> you will pose of an MLE:
>
> How can it save the college money?
>
> How can it help me deliver online learning remotely?
>
> Will it take credit card enrolments?
>
> How can it help me deliver online learning to mainstream courses?
>
> How can it help me to deliver staff development?
>
> Can we increase our student numbers without increasing our premises?
>
> Can we use an MLE to make better use of existing resources and thereby
> reduce our premises?
>
> What role for a teachers and learning facilitators are embedded into
> the MLE?
>
> Does it allow teachers to easily prepare interesting online resources?
>
> What model of learning resources ownership is embedded in the MLE?
>
> How does the MLE facilitate communication between staff and staff and
> staff and students?
>
> Does the MLE assume the seamless integration of CIS/MIS and the
> delivery of learning? (is this secure?)
>
> If it does, how are colleges going to cope with the integration of
> what are often seen as seperate sections(or even empires)
>
> Does the MLE work on a 52 week year with a 24 hour helpdesk??
>
>
>
> Which subset of these questions are you/your organisation asking?
>
> Are they fair questions?
>
> What's missing?
>
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