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Monday, November 29, 2004

eLearning Part Time

I have had some trouble finding time to do this blog. Had plenty of family-related schedules, office work, community conference and a car aircon breakdown.

Which led me to this blog. Well, it's not directly related but it gave me space to give an excuse and a topic to discuss.

Can eLearning be like my schedule, in chunks, seemingly random and unformatted? Can you do eLearning today, ILT tomorrow, after you've done coaching yesterday? On the same topic?

This question seems simplistic to me. This is blended learning. But as a rule, teaching methods should be fitted to the learning type and not the other way around.

We know that students learn differently and it is better to use different teaching methods make learning better.

Sadly, our schools seem to focus more on ILT, varying it a bit with discussion and question and answer sessions. eLearning is still in its infancy (if not the embryonic stage) and is not even seen as an alternative, much less better and more viable.

But technology-based learning has a great potential.

More on these in the coming months.

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