And she’s back!
I had a week or two of not-blogging while I wrote TMA03, and then there was a lovely week of playing Skyrim, flying kites, thinking about reading a novel…and then I had to go back to work and back to OUH880. So the first line of Skwod by my fellow Croydon inmate, the inestimable Nadia Rose, is appropriate here…
This is the last section of the course, where we will be visualising the future of Technology Enhanced Learning. Or rather, Technology Enhanced Education. Because Learning only happens in a formal educational context, boys and girls!
This week we looked at Educational Futures: UN targets and educational goals, in particular the target goals for education from 2000 to 2015. It was interesting that these hi-falutin’ goals were designed to be fairly low, but they still haven’t been met in many countries. There was also a shift in emphasis from quality of learning experience to quantifiable measures.
The focus in this week was the disparity between stated goals and the reality. There was an interesting example from the Open University of Nepal – where they started with an idea of a collaborative learning experience that used technology to share knowledge between Nepalese citizens across the world, connecting the diaspora with their home country.
Aaand then we get into something called Theory of Change – which most people doing project management would call basic common sense, but what my employers call the transformation approach. It’s basically about collaboration, defining a common vision and getting everybody to buy into the vision in order to push it forward.
Sarah Slade 