I found this article using the online databases availale to staff and students via the Bill Robertson Library, a great tool that you can access from the library's website.
Online Education: The Revolution That Wasn't
By William R Doyle
May/June 2009
Interesting opening quote:
"Universities won't survive. The future is outside the traditional campus, outside the traditional classroom. Distance learning is coming on fast." Peter Drucker quoted in 1997
This quote is already 12 years old, I personally feel it could have been published yesterday! This has been a long time coming, we are seeing greater buy in from the tertiary sector and now it is up to the lecturers to incorporate this delivery method into our programmes.
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I tried,and tried, to attach the whole document here so that you could read also but have discovered that you need to have the file in google docs - which is reasonably straight forward - but soon learnt that you are unable to attach PDFs to your blog, anyone had any luck with attaching PDFs?
Perhaps though.. its a case of a frog in a pot of water set to boil? We, who work on the inside.. don't see the alternatives directly, and its not until those alternatives gather steam that we notice and think to change.. perhaps when it is all too late.
ReplyDeleteWhat do we know now?
Running an educational organisation is expensive and in our case not cost effective under present conditions
Student numbers are dropping off in more areas than they are picking up
Recognition of prior learning services are taking hold
Industry associations and corporations are offering in house training instead of using Polytechs..
etc..
Is this pot of water getting hot yet?
I'm not sure.
On the other hand, it could be that our culture only responds to fear.. after a century of it - perhaps it is all we are geared to respond to and so, many writers are using it to gain attention and funding.
Finally, PDFs in a blog.. Blogger does not enable you to upload files other than images and video into your blog. You need to link to the file where it exists, or upload the PDF into something like Slideshare.net and then link to it there. Be warned on Copyrights though. If the paper exists on the open internet (and by the look of the Google search results, it doesn't) then you would link to it.. Here is a link to the Abstract at least. See if you can find a fully accessible one?
Frustrating all this restricted access stuff isn't it? Perhaps there's another pot of water on the boil.. I know the music and video industry can feel their heat.