Is the World Open?
Richard Straub,
elearningpapers,
May 21, 2008
Interesting article that looks at the question of whether we live in a 'flat' world or a 'spiky' world (my take is that we live in a spiky world with many deep valleys). Interesting is the diagram about halfway through which matches major innovations - the industrial revolution, for example, or the automobile revolution - with eventual economic collapses (touching how he thinks that the dot com 'economic collapse' was the bubble bursting a few years ago - heh - I'd say we have a much more significant collapse coming). Note: the link to the PDF of the full article in in the upper right-hand corner - you have to look for it; it's easy to miss.
Related, and from the same issue of elearningpapers: Antonio Bartolome on Web 2.0 and New Learning Paradigms ("This article is sceptical about the current changes at eLearning institutions and businesses, but points out some of the changes that will take place outside their courses and programmes") as well as Juan Friere on institutional challenges posed by Web 2.0.
Related, and from the same issue of elearningpapers: Antonio Bartolome on Web 2.0 and New Learning Paradigms ("This article is sceptical about the current changes at eLearning institutions and businesses, but points out some of the changes that will take place outside their courses and programmes") as well as Juan Friere on institutional challenges posed by Web 2.0.
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