... to think about.
Does e-learning enable students to be more self-directed? Or does elearning without good guidance just confuse students?
Is elearning more student-friendly or without good guidance does not attract to learn?
Does elearning support inside motivation?
Is the process of knowledge creation different in elearning?
How is it possible to develop skills (!) in elearning or support it?
How to compensate missing communication between students/teachers? Or is there a need for that?
How can elearning support the creation of new knowledge? Can e-learning develop students academic knowledge/academic reflection or does it support more handcraft skills?
2 comments:
Interesting questions, these might be the questions for some of us to build our master's or doctoral thesis around it. Basically my whole Phd project is dedicated to your first question. Let's see what comes out from this.
I am not sure what do you mean by e-learning exactly (it is a fuzzy word anyway), but I believe that most of our activities will be related to the computers, internet, social media. That's why I think that acquiring just domain specific knowledge is not enough and you need to be competent in terms of what technology has to offer us. And I see technology as a means nothing else.
Personally I think that nowadays students are "spoiled", because so far everything has been given to them, the environment, content, strategies, etc. and it is understandable. No need to think myself as a student. Just learn what is required. Now educators are creating more challenges to attain competencies in the area of self-direction and students are suddenly shocked, surprised as they have to start thinking, thinking about their needs, prior knowledge and skills and build new on top of it, solve problems and find solutions. So my problem is how to change their attitudes and values in this sense....
Mnjah … I thought quite a lot about 'spoiled students', self-direction and students decision-making ability.
I agree and disagree with you at the same time. I think that students can not be self-directing at once. To be self-directed and able to make decision students must first know the field. It is possible to think about prior knowledge and take some decision grounded on this, but is it always smart thing to do? Especially if they do know too little about the field? I don’t know. This requires more analysis and thinking ….
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