Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community
Interesting discussion of the difficulties inherent in ensuring quality in e-learning. It's a daunting task. "He points to a simple program containing 20 lines of code, including a loop and three IF statements. He calculated that there were 100 trillion execution paths, which would take a billion years to test!" Integration poses even greater diffoculties. "Now, it is impossible to really see how a product performs until it goes live, when it is running within the learner support environment and additional services, such as synchronous and asynchronous tutor support, are being provided."

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