If case you thought it was just me, Gary Woodill weighs in on the CCL's report on the state of e-learning, adding a whole list of other initiatives that escaped the report authors' attention. And there are more - the WikiEducator project, for example, was completely overlooked, even though the Commonwealth of Learning (which itself rated only passing mention in the report) is based in Vancouver. Woodill writes, "Out of the 145 pages, 3 pages are devoted to training and development, and for the most part, they quote people from 2001 or 2003."
Terry Anderson, following up on his own post, writes, "To have a really large and effective impact I think we need the type of collaboration amongst multiple sectors we see in Canad's investments in nano-technology or some of the medical innovations." He has called for this sort of national initiative before. I would agree, but my problem with such an approach is that it would be run by the sort of people who produced this report, and would thus effectively eliminate what good is being done now.
Terry Anderson, following up on his own post, writes, "To have a really large and effective impact I think we need the type of collaboration amongst multiple sectors we see in Canad's investments in nano-technology or some of the medical innovations." He has called for this sort of national initiative before. I would agree, but my problem with such an approach is that it would be run by the sort of people who produced this report, and would thus effectively eliminate what good is being done now.
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