tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2107060758629396184.post2709156805312173898..comments2024-03-26T23:23:06.905-07:00Comments on Blogger in Middle-earth: Learning Tactics and Their SupportBlogger In Middle-earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08722634477041121797noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2107060758629396184.post-59718985818535710292008-10-29T02:53:00.000-07:002008-10-29T02:53:00.000-07:00Kia ora Dave!Thanks for dropping by. If I catch yo...Kia ora Dave!<BR/><BR/>Thanks for dropping by. If I catch your drift, I too have been troubled by the people who get left behind in some environments that we hear so much about being the greatest since sliced. And the interpretations that some people accept as the real dinkum about topics they are just beginning to learn scares me too. I have to say that I come across these most days.<BR/><BR/>You mention about Clive's, "when e-learning goes wrong . . .".<BR/><BR/>I have watched several projects start off with the idea that elearning is the way to save costs. I also believe that, done the 'right way' - and I mean effectively supporting the 'elearning apprentices' - it has the potential to be far less costly than the millions spent on quick-and-nasty hack jobs that started with the idea that it could all be done on a shoe-string.<BR/><BR/>As for 'click next to continue', I thought that sort of 'programming' went out with basic programming in TRS80s, otherwise known as Trash80s.<BR/><BR/>An elearning resource has to have scope for it to be worth making in the first place. Here's just <A HREF="http://www.correspondence.school.nz/departments/esection/science/science_rlo/pe/y10/southern_sky.html" REL="nofollow">one idea</A> I had almost a decade ago now. It has greater potential as a learning tool than it's tutorial suggests. And it has had a lot of student use since I built it, and there are more like that.<BR/><BR/>Ka kiteBlogger In Middle-earthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08722634477041121797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2107060758629396184.post-28994266107007157292008-10-28T19:11:00.000-07:002008-10-28T19:11:00.000-07:00Ken, this is quite the comprehensive post. You to...Ken, this is quite the comprehensive post. You touch on a couple of things that trouble me, like the notion that in certain collaborative settings, people can get left behind -- or can end up manufacturing their own understandings that end up needing to be revised.<BR/><BR/>That kind of revision isn't always bad, but sometimes, it's pretty counterproductive.<BR/><BR/>I hopped over to Clive's post and noted this comment: "When e-learning goes wrong, you can be sure that the only reason it was introduced was to save money."<BR/><BR/>I often talk about Gresham's Law in terms of corporate learning: bad training drives out good.<BR/><BR/>Back in the long-forgotten days of mainframe CBT, corporations put <I>endless</I> amounts of mind-numbing blather online because they could. My component at GE had a 22 hour course on JCL (IBM mainframe job control language). Imagine 22 hours of "click next to continue," interspersed with multiple-choice questions.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com