Interesting reaction to my posting last week of Belinda Davis Lazarus's measuring online teaching time. Martin Terre Blanche comments, "It only takes between 3 and 7 hours per week for classes of 25 (i.e. up to 17 minutes of instructor time per student) if one is into the kind of teaching where conventional online discussion groups are central to how learning happens and the instructor feels compelled to play a conventional busy-body instructor role - facilitating, goading, grading the learners into submission." Fair enough. But then he continues, "OLDaily is at the centre of a very large network of online learners... that's still only 2.4 seconds of instructor time per learner per day. OLDaily is e-learning on steroids..." 2.4 seconds per learner is close (it's actually even less than that), which does indeed raise some interesting issues. So let's grapple with the main one: is OLDaily, as I claim, really online learning? Comment by clicking [Reflect].
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