This is a good paper so far as it goes, though it feels a bit out of touch at times. The authors provide a background to Action Learning and describe its online form, Virtual Action Learning. Then they look for instances of it and find only a few instances. This is what strikes me as odd. For example, they write, "VAL is evolving... with the majority of cases occurring in Form 2 – asynchronous text. This is the only asynchronous form in evidence; perhaps not surprisingly there are no examples found of Forms 4 and 6 – asynchronous audio or visual ie use of recordings." Even if we construe Action Learning fairly narrowly (which the authors do not) there are many examples of Action Learning using audio and video online (names like Sprankle and Wesch spring immediately to mind). Alas, perhaps, not in the literature (such as it is). Reading academic literature is no substitute for real research. The full text is oddly not available off the English page, but can be found from the French and Spanish (still in English). More articles from the current issue of elearningpapers.
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