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My university was one of the pioneers in self directed learning. It was during the black death when there was a shortage of lecturers and many students wanted
by excuse-me 14y ago
My university was one of the pioneers in self directed learning.
It was during the black death when there was a shortage of lecturers and many students wanted to go away from the city to learn remotely in their own homes
So they came up with these portable reading tablets, a sort of p-book, which contained the lecturers words and could be read anywhere, even in bright sunlight. Eventually large stores of these were collected together in data repositories- a bit like tape libraries but with human robots.
- they also invented exams when they realised it was cheaper to examine a 100 students at once and outsource the marking than have the professor viva each student individually.
- zipdog 14y agoYes, they should be testing software-based learning against other forms of private (self-directed) learning, as well as (face-to-face) instruction. Remote-instructor learning through software differs markedly from the same through books in a variety of ways. ie the software can provide more compelling extrinsic motivations, but can also provide increased distractions (both if used on a computer with internet access, and through the affordance of screen-based tools). So its good not to treat this as an either or problem (does software work as well as face-to-face) because there's a number of other considerations (is the face-to-face personal or lecture hall, is the software highly interactive with immediate feedback, etc
- excuse-me 14y agoExcept the software is almost always a Powerpoint-ized version of the book with "an interactive multimedia experience" consisting of either a diagram being drawn piece by piece by an animated gif, or a video clip in the corner with a talking head reading the lecture notes.