Eric's ramblings, experiences and random thoughts about e-Learning, distance education and Educational Technology.
The Edu-Blogger: ITI: Stephen Downes keynote
Here's a wonderful recap created by Rick West of Stephen Downes' talk at the Instructional Technology Institute in Utah last week. When I was reading it, a great many points rang true in my mind. The best point is that certain successful applications such as FTP, email, blogs have common criteria that made them successful.. they were:
* - simple
* - decentralized
* - open – we could all play
* - free, etc.
I would suggest that these four criteria are a must for educational applications to be successful; however, what companies are going to invest in R&D around products that are FREE? Catch 22 right there. So successful educational initiatives might be found at the grass roots level in the future. Just interesting food for thought.
Tuesday, September 14, 2004
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