E-learning Grows Up
Godfrey Parkin,
Nov 19, 2005
I still have a lot of catching up to do, but I think this article is an appropriate way to lead today's unusual Saturday edition of OLDaily. Godfrey Parkin writes, "the 'e-learning 2.0' name is a ghastly and inappropriate label... because it suggests a finite release of a formal upgrade, which is the opposite of what is really happening." Well, I do apologize for it - but if I hadn't coined it, some marketing type would have, and then we'd be seeing "e-learning 2.0 (tm)" advertisements all over the place. "It's hard to see the renewed freedom, informality, creativity, transparency, and revolutionary chaos through the label it's been given." Well - yeah - but it's also hard for a lot of people to accept the idea that we live in an age of freedom, informality, creativity, transparency, and revolutionary chaos. That's my life these days and I can scarcely comprehend it. But the main point of Parkin's commentary holds, and it's at the core of my own beliefs: "Learning is not the end result of a series of training events; it is an evolving capacity enabled by personal learning networks that are characterized by user-created content, intuitive search and retrieval, and social interaction at any distance." And with that, welcome to another chaotic day in my life - it has been so much recently, I'm breathless, I really am.
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