At 19:33 18/12/02 +0000, Ken Smith said:
>Something to ponder while you are away.
>
>In an FE situation with courses that rarely contain more than 30 people, if
>you do not have a large number of distance learners and are not planning to
>change your teaching methods, just what are the advantages of using a VLE.
>
>Of course, you may have decided to change your teaching methods. If so is
>this not a matter of us bending to suit the machine when it should be the
>machine that is bending to suit us?
There's also a short article on precisely this topic which people might
like to look at, from Philip Butler, formerly City and Islington College,
now at RSC-London. The article is at:
http://ferl.becta.org.uk/display.cfm?resID=2979
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