First Monday: Object Lessons: Towards
First Monday: Object Lessons: Towards an Educational Theory of TechnologyLooking more closely, we see a difference more of degree than of kind between an integrated learning system's use of large, elaborate databases to provide step-by-step programmed instruction and up-to-date, "on-demand" individual assessment, and an online E-learning environment that provides instructors with powerful and integrated 'learning and content management' tools designed in order to engender mindful collaborative learners. While the former is more obviously a totally routinized, content-corrupt, pedagogy-corrupt system to promote and enforce learner compliance to a fully preprogrammed curricular delivery system, the latter's fundamental structures are themselves built entirely from traditional school-knowledge resources, such as textbook knowledge and related 'machine-scorable quiz databanks' and their activity-systems are no less categorically pre-scripted.
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