Blended Learning?
Interesting. If you consider the concept of 'blended learning' you soon realize that many things can be 'blended', not just delivery models. Things like role, focus, and curricula. And if you can blend many things, then there is the possibility that different overt and covert curricula can be blended. "From this perspective the key affordances of e-learning, flexibility, community and individualisation are problematic. Against flexibility might be set a return to piecework and insecurity." Via Graham Attwell. See also George Roberts on community consolidation: "Communities don't just happen. There needs to be organisation, structure, coordination, focus and planning." Of course, some communities 'just happen' - lots of them do - Roberts is talking of a specific subset of communities, of intentional communities. George Roberts, Emerge, August 10, 2007. [Link] [Tags: Web Logs, Wikipedia, Blended Learning, Security Issues, Online Learning] [Previous][Next]Comments
Re: Blended Learning?
Not intentional communities, exactly, but communities of purpose (see Scott Wilson, http://www.slideshare.net/scottw/social-software-17042) and maybe communities of action and practice. The Wikipedia page on "intentional communities" has them as specifically residential. I do not mean this sort of thing, though it could be a subset. Perhaps Geodecity is a short-term intentional community (see http://www.reactorweb.com/geo/intro.htm) [Comment] [Permalink] [Previous][Next]
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I mislabled 'intentional communities' deliberately - I know that what is described is distinct from the intentional community, traditionally conceived. But I wanted to draw out the parallel, and in particular, draw out the idea that it is only in the case where communities are deliberately created that "there needs to be organisation, structure, coordination, focus and planning."
But then - the statement resolves into a tautology. Doesn't it? [Comment]
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Yes, but your intentional mislabling suggested that *I* was speaking of intentional communities as you conceived them, when I wasn't. No biggie, because the point you raise is substantially correct. It would be interesting, however, to explore communities that are not deliberately created and see whether they exhibit forms of "organisation, structure, coordination, focus and planning". I suspect that there may be various implicit, tacit, and/or covert means of handling these functions, which are made overtly explicit in "intentional" communities. [Comment] [Permalink] [Previous][Next]
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