Your future may be the past you didn’t learn…

Listening to those that “have been there and done that” is critical to not repeating history and perhaps designing and developing a better future.  Sadly, I have found it rare for younger pedagogues/andragogues to take the time to listen to those who have gone before them…much farther.

What I am learning is that the modern net student wants to consume and construct information in a very different way than the past.  This change can partly be explained by adoption of mobile technologies, and present learning environs.

These changes have a profound effect on design and development of digital spaces.  This has been examined through the concept of personal learning environments (1ab).

Key observations by those professors of post-secondary learning environs:

• ‘Death by Powerpoint’ – the  “digital overhead simulation” pushes information slide after slide until you are bored to death
• Q and A – questions and answers have to be next to each other
• One click/tap away – all content upfront, with no drill down necessary to access key information

For Consideration…

• Content authoring via tablets.
• Simplified content presentation
• Open integration to existing enduser digital spaces
• Socialized integration

Reflections…

• LMS’s and MOOCS are constrictive analogue simulations by design
• CMS and frameworks are potentially less restrictive
• Accessibility is a major focus
• Flat structures with less drill down to expedite content exposure

ENDNOTES

(1a) Original list of PLE Publications

http://plep.pbworks.com/w/page/43952054/Original%20list%20of%20PLE%20Publications

(1b) Anderson, Terry (2006), PLE’s versus LMS: Are PLEs ready for Prime time?, Virtual Canuck, Blog

http://terrya.edublogs.org/2006/01/09/ples-versus-lms-are-ples-ready-for-prime-time/

Original: http://on-linelearning.ca/agora/deal/2015/02/18/listen-and-learn/
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Posted: February 18, 2015, 4:15 am