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e-Doing is not e-Learning

Posted by: ashleytan on: December 20, 2011

In a Straits Times article, a Year 1 junior college student complained about the downside of e-learning. At the risk of beating an old horse to death, I’ll say this: What the student described is e-doing, not e-learning. This is teach less learn more gone wrong. It is teach less, do more, learn nothing, give [...]

What is good e-learning?

Posted by: ashleytan on: September 21, 2011

Source I could probably look at John Connell’s revised slides on “Good eLearning and Bad eLearning” and pick up something a bit different every day. For example, there were lots of quotable quotes, mostly by famous people, but my favourite was probably the simplest one in slide 63: Young people across the world today are possibly [...]

“New” media, good old ideas

Posted by: ashleytan on: October 6, 2010

by  Truthout.org Just what exactly constitute new media? The author of this article has a list. But given the rate at which Web technologies develop, I wouldn’t label them new. Current maybe. Early millenial media perhaps. But not new. Nonetheless, the ideas there for implementing e-learning are a good start!

Reflecting on e-learning

Posted by: ashleytan on: September 17, 2009

We recently concluded two separate weeks of e-learning for the ICT course. My trainees did some case-based learning with this resource. I created some comics with the help of makebeliefscomix.com to make the cases a bit less dry. Last week, I did a follow up on e-learning with my classes and mentioned a few things. [...]

Assuming FTF instruction is the best

Posted by: ashleytan on: September 6, 2009

I thought that the “e-Learning sucks” slideshow I highlighted earlier today was timely. This article in THE Journal, 5 Ways We’re Diminishing Learning by Assuming Face-to-Face Instruction Is Best, is just as timely! It starts: It’s interesting that face-to-face instruction is still the measure by which all other forms of instruction are evaluated. As the [...]

e-Learning sucks?

Posted by: ashleytan on: September 6, 2009

Thanks to a timely RSS feed from TADO, I found this slideshow. It’s timely because e-learning week just ended for two of my classes and will end this week for another two. It is also timely because the slides compare positive e-learning experiences to gaming, something which I am getting my classes to experience and [...]

A(H1N1) and e-learning?

Posted by: ashleytan on: June 19, 2009

ST Online reported today that schools here might resort to e-learning [PDF] “if H1N1 worsens.” ST also reported that some schools in Hong Kong had already taken that route [PDF] with the outbreak of A(H1N1). The articles are revealing in what they say and what they don’t. In Singapore’s case, “most of the 15 parents interviewed [...]

Put the learning back in e-learning

Posted by: ashleytan on: January 31, 2009

My two AED104 classes will be in the midst of e-learning week this week. Next week, my two QED522 classes take their turn at e-learning. I truly hope that they will be e-learning, not just e-doing, or worse still, e-suffering. We have e-learning weeks not just to simulate school closures due to emergencies. Nor should [...]

e-Learning or e-Doing?

Posted by: ashleytan on: August 28, 2008

My trainee teachers are experiencing e-learning week. They won’t have to make the long journey to campus, but I am sure that they will be busier than usual. But it could be worse! When NIE had it’s first e-learning week in Feb 2007, it was applied to all academic groups. The effect of often overly [...]


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