When we think of innovation, we often think of technology. A colleague of mine, however, said she believes online learning will move away from feature-full learning management systems like Blackboard toward a more organic notion of learning with tools like twitter and pbwiki.
It gave me food for thought. If we think about learning in this context, it actually becomes more flexible, but less “organized.” This makes me go back to the need for individualized learning. There are learners out there who succeed and thrive in environments like Blackboard. Others don’t. If we adopted a more open environment, yet a different set of learners would excel and we might leave the current Blackboard learners in the dust.
No answers here, just exploration. We are fortunate to live in a time with choices and innovation and new tools to try every day. Speaking of such, I haven’t logged in to Twitter for over a week now. Better get twittering (or is it tweeting?).
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