The midden » personalised_learning http://sumdy.edublogs.org education, technology, change Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:02:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Half an Hour: The Future of Online Learning: Ten Years On http://sumdy.edublogs.org/2008/11/21/half-an-hour-the-future-of-online-learning-ten-years-on/ http://sumdy.edublogs.org/2008/11/21/half-an-hour-the-future-of-online-learning-ten-years-on/#comments Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:56:01 +0000 Will Stewart http://sumdy.edublogs.org/2008/11/21/half-an-hour-the-future-of-online-learning-ten-years-on/

  • This posting by Stephen Downes provides a useful summary of where we are at now and how we got here. He re-visits a previous article written in 1998, noting that many of his earlier predictions have been remarkably accurate. The main areas he discusses include:

  • new technologies in education – the teaching process remains relatively unchanged despite more than 10 years of the Internet
  • online conferencing – becoming increasing important as a way of understanding communication in an online environment
  • personalised learning – the importance of informal learning in the online environment is being increasingly acknowledged, where students are not restricted by the constraints of the traditional classroom model
  • time and place independence – as small, lightweight wireless devices become the norm, online learning and mobile learning become the same
  • learning communities – the internet has developed into an enabler of communities within which individuals can learn

    Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

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