A Personal Cyberinfrastructure (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE - 0 views
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The "progress" that higher education achieved with massive turnkey online systems, especially with the LMS, actually moved in the opposite direction. The "digital facelift" helped higher education deny both the needs and the opportunities emerging with this new medium.
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Ben Rimes on 29 Jan 12This is not isolated within higher education, this is education at all levels. Moving instruction/learning/teaching to the web does not change the way learning takes place, it simply changes the address. And in some ways, it makes taking risks to break out of the "old ways" even more daring and troublesome as the open-ness of the web most likely frightens people more than the "open-ness" of the classroom and school building.
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Pointing students to data buckets and conduits we've already made for them won't do. Templates and training wheels may be necessary for a while, but by the time students get to college, those aids all too regularly turn into hindrances. For students who have relied on these aids, the freedom to explore and create is the last thing on their minds, so deeply has it been discouraged. Many students simply want to know what their professors want and how to give that to them.
