Paul Prinsloo attended the 37th Conference of the Asian Association of Open Universities (AAOU) hosted at Allama Iqbal Open University and reflected on the prsentations from people who were just discovering the topic. "I often had a feeling that we may suffer from scholarly amnesia," he writes, "reporting on issues as if there has not been any research on a particular topic. This may be how some members of the audience may have felt listening to me in 2002!" But also, after ther talks referencing Bloom's Taxonomy, or the the Community of Inquiry Framework, he wonders "whether there had not been any fresh theoretical and methodological lenses with which to engage with in researching open distance learning." Well, that's the problem of searching for a 'theoretical lens' rather than, say, causal principles. Normally, stability would indicate success. but here it indicates stagnation.
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