Outright silliness
Janet Clarey,
Brandon Hall,
Oct 12, 2009
Personally, I'm not sure how people were talking about the use of things like Facebook and RSS readers for learning before they were invented. However, as Janet Clarey writes, "Robert Bacal thinks the terms ‘informal learning' and ‘e-learning 2.0′ are 'silly terms to take things we've been talking about (or discarded) years ago, and repackage them with fancier terms.'". Well from what I've seen, people working in e-learning today have made a genuine effort to draw from earlier work, which is why you'll see their writings littered with names like Vygotsky, Freire, Illich and more. And, as Clarey adds, "It sure would be nice if some more 'long term experts on learning' who think '2.0' is all rubbish would put their work, their background in learning theory and their 'hard-core research' out in the public for comment. It's not that hard really. The publish button is just over there to the right."
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