Www.cdtl.nus.edu.sg/technology-in-pedagogy/articles/Technology-in-Pedagogy-6.pdf. Bridge to Learning - Educational Research. Another section of my new paper, now entitled ‘The Future of Learning Environments.
The section looks at Personal Learning Environments and Vygotsky. Dave Wiley, in a paper entitled ‘ Open for learning: the CMS and the Open Learning Network ‘ and co-written with Jon Mott, explains the failure of Technology Enhanced Education as being due to the way technology has been used to maintain existing practices: “by perpetuating the Industrial Era-inspired, assembly line notion that the semester-bound course is the naturally appropriate unit of instruction (Reigeluth, 1999).” The paper quotes Herrington, Reeves, and Oliver (2005) who argue that course management software leads universities to “think they are in the information industry”. In contrast to”the authentic learning environments prompted by advances in cognitive and constructivist learning theories”:
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