What's worse is that it's such a dreadful idea - I tried half the sample
lectures, and switched off within a minute or two. How having the head of a
static 'expert' speaking in a monotone voice for an hour to pretty basic OHP
slides is 'revolutionary' I don't know. To my mind, its another case of
giving the eminence of the expert more importance than the learning of the
poor student who has to sit through it all (very few would manage longer
than a few minutes, I guess). A neat example of e-learning meaning a move
from the 'sage on the stage' to the 'wise (old) man on the web'.
I could go on .... Suffice to say that if this is the future of e-learning,
I'll have a lecturer reading from a text book any day...
Regards,
Adam Joinson
-----Original Message-----
From: Ian Winship [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 06 March 2001 11:50
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Boxmind
List members may have seen in the press this week about Boxmind
(http://www.boxmind.com/) - the new site with a handful of celebrity
multimedia lectures (and - to librarians -a unimpressive resource
directory.)
The Guardian
(http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4146060,00.html)
says:
'The launch of the e-lectures is also likely to intensify demands
for high
quality online learning' as if there were none already. But perhaps
journalists think that the public Internet is everything.
The report also says that individual universities will be able to
have their
own academic staff delivering lectures in the same way. So no need
for VLEs
then?
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Learning Resources, University of Northumbria at Newcastle
City Campus Library, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8ST, UK
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