reema khurana (reemakhurana@hotmail.com)
Wed, 6 Oct 1999 21:10:47 +1300
From: reema khurana <reemakhurana@hotmail.com> Subject: [IFETS] First summary Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 21:10:47 +1300
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Date : 5th October 1999
From : Reema Khurana
Subject : First summary of the discussion on
"Flexible Learning :Can we really please everyone "
I have started the summarizing from the messages posted from 1st October
1999 onwards although the formally the discussion starts from 4th October
1999 .
Nichol Cameron ( < NICHOL@svhm.org.au> ) points out that "Chalk ,talk and
trainee sponge .." is not the only way of learning .Infact he finds
flexible learning and delivery a very useful concept which allows him to
introduce his staff to varied ways and means of learning .These include
intranet sites ,list servers and other print packages.Also according to
Nichol this method can be used to allow to let people learn what they want
and when they want it. Thus Nichol's staff has an option to adopt a self
directed approach to learning
In a separate message posted on the same day Nichol says
"According to Michaelangelo he didn't really sculpt statues, he just
released the figure that already existed in the marble. His statue of David
is a generally acknowledged masterpiece.It started with a bunch of sweaty
quarry men with dirty great big drills.Even when Michaelangelo got the rock
he didn't get out the polishing tools,he took to it with the big chisel and
proceeded to smack off huge hunks.He worked his way down until he was using
the fine, up close, finishingtools, but even then he didn't bother to etch
each hair. He had the skilland it certainly would have been impressive but
he didn't need to. "
Here though not very effectively but I think he is trying to make the point
that the design of the flexible learning course should be such that the
right tool whether it is a CD-ROM ,web based learning , intranet sites etc
..is so used as to let the learner create the learning on his own just like
Angelo released the statue and not designed it afresh .Thereby implying
that delivering education is not creating a student with information or
knowledge base but it is shaping the existing student so that he realises
knowledge .
Cameron further states that the right mix of media is important to deliver
education effectively .
The right mix he says depends or is determined by the DEEP issues .
He writes
" It should not be a matter of "either/or",it should be considered more
along the lines of "hybrid vigor". Thisincludes recognition and "acceptable"
compromise on the DEEP issues(Dollars, Empires, Egos and Politics). "
Jeff Finlay ( jfinlay@umuc.edu >) commented on Cameron's observations as
"Hi, Cameron. It sounds to me like you are describing what the work of the
contemporary educator has become. (Old school folks are going to disagree --
they've already been passed by and don't know it). "
Reema Khurana
Professor
Institute of Management Technology ,
India
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