[ifets] Can learning be enjoyable?

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Sue Lowe (low@tilc.com)
Thu, 29 Oct 1998 21:08:43 -0600 

Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 21:08:43 -0600
From: Sue Lowe <low@tilc.com>
Subject: [ifets] Can learning be enjoyable?

Hi Everyone,

I am teaching a quality class for Mississippi State University to about
25 students from 2 sites by video conferencing. There are students in
my class from the service sector and industrial sector and I have tried
to create interactivity and interest, maybe not enjoyment. We use
Demings approach that quality is universal, it doesn't matter what
company you work for but TQM is TQM. My adult students are interested
as much as possible because they are seeing "what's in it for them" as
they relate quality concepts to their own environment. They are
understanding the concepts. As I hard as we educators try there are
some courses that will not be enjoyable; liked, appreciated, accepted
are positives without enjoying and I agree with in some cases you just
have to take your medicine and make the best of it.

Chris wrote: I am open to being convinced that making learning
'enjoyable' is i)
possible, b) desirable at all times. I agree one should seek to make
it as *interesting* as possible, and there are times when it lends
itself to being made enjoyable, but there are times when you just
have to do the more tedious bits - like reading the whole of
Richardson's Clarissa!

I agree totally but even though all courses may not be enjoyable it
would be nice if they were interesting or thought provoking.

Sue Lowe 

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