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Blogs: The Myth of eLearning

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Wed Jan 19 2011

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(From CampucTechnology.com) Information technology, ironically, instead of disenfranchising the current higher education enterprise, is making it more vital. After all, we find that there was and is no revolution, just a gradual shift in emphasis toward certain kinds of existing learning experiences. Also, unexpectedly, on-the-ground colleges and universities are, if anything, better positioned to maximize their in-situ advantage than ever before. Distance education is not, and never should be considered, a replacement of traditional on-the-ground learning.

The problem that higher education faced when computers and networks became ubiquitous on campuses was that we educators had set ourselves up for a fall:

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We claimed that the only important learning occurred in the classroom

We said that we (educators) "delivered" education

Such "delivery" was based merely on books and talking

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