Time to Tearn?
Wayne Hodgins,
Off Course - On Target,
Jan 09, 2009
Wayne Hodgins expands on a theme I've touched on frequently, the idea that everyone - through open practice - can be a teacher. He writes, "We no longer have sufficient time to create the formal learning tools and environments, such as masters and doctoral programs, textbooks, and credentialing systems, to address these significant changes in technology or methodology. We need experts to teach us about new programming languages, new equipment, new approaches, and new ways of communicating no matter how quickly they appear on the scene." Quite so - and (I argue) we make this work using the system described in Resource Profiles. As Hodgins says, "I think a lot of the same technology that we apply to content could be applied to people. Metadata, such as characteristics, words found within, the audience it was written for, who else looked for this content, etc., could be applied to people and skills."
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