Here is an interesting angle on eLearning that I picked up from this 2007 blog post<br><br><font size="1"><<a href="http://web.me.com/timholt/Intended_Consequenses/Intended_Consequences_Blog/Entries/2007/6/15_Not_Invited_to_the_Buffet.html#comment_37A1291C_0113_1000_81B7_CEEB57893D05">http://web.me.com/timholt/Intended_Consequenses/Intended_Consequences_Blog/Entries/2007/6/15_Not_Invited_to_the_Buffet.html#comment_37A1291C_0113_1000_81B7_CEEB57893D05</a>></font><br>
<br>As we bore our students by teaching with 19th century techniques and refuse to invite them to be part of the 12st century discussion about their learning, they "emotionally move away from learning and we <b>disinvite</b> them from process." No emotional connection = No learning.<br>
<br>With Moodle, I get my students to grade my questions and activities. I also openly solicit their feedback in a discussion forum. I am passionate about my year 9 Research Science course and share this with my students. I even recall a decade ago running a series of staff and student focus groups to help me define and describe the kind of 'next millennium' infrastructure we expected from our computer network. Following an invitation, we forwarded this onto Paul Dougherty, the then Education Department IT division head.<br>
<br>Do we currently engage students and staff in wider discussions about how eLearning should be implemented and adapted? When I consider the current blind push to deploy a commercial Ultranet solution, I am now not surprised that there is no real emotional connection and ownership. Although it is interesting to read reports of implementing pilot school reports, nothing beats asking grass root users what they think to develop a sense of ownership in order to build an emotional connection. This would have been easy to do but seems to have been ignored.<br>
<br>Perhaps like some of our students, we have been <b>disinvited</b> from the decision making process. <br><br>What do others think?<br><br>Regards Roland<br><br>--<br>Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College<br>
<a href="http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au">http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au</a><br><br>"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has." --Margaret Mead<br>