I had the opportunity to attend to e-Learn 2008, the World Conference on e-Learning in Corporate, Government. Healthcare, & Higher Education, organized by AACE (Las Vegas, Nov 17-21, 2008). It was a great experience, let me share with you my notes on Mark David’s remarks on seven elements that educators should consider dealing with multiple generations of learners simultaneously.
Beyond the need to consider multidimensional blending (online/onsite, portal/campus, LMS/classroom, repositories/lecturing, e-office/office hours, web 2.0 tools/books, open dialogue/open space) as a departure point to provide an appropriate scenario for each participating generation, Dr. David highlighted the need to enhance higher education settings with the utilization of mobile technologies (e.g., cellphones) as means to bring learners together, with the integration of new type of games (e.g., WII) to support new kind of learning (e.g, kinesthetic / performance based learning), with the intensive use of social networking tools (e.g., blogs, wikis, RSS feeds) to foster learning communities, with the inclusion of engagement technologies (e.g., holograms) to bring together co-learners, with the integration of analytic and diagnostic technologies (e.g., modeling tools) to support evidence-based education, all of these with social intelligence, that is, with involvement of co-learners in strategic decisions.
The question to solve is if we should wait for the economic crisis to be gone to start dealing with these issues in higher education, or if we should be creative and aggressive dealing with them in spite of the crisis. Let's be proactive.
Alvaro H Galvis,
Director CETL
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