Thoughts About Jona

Respondents to the teacher survey expressed concern that student access has became linked to demands for courses to be “serviced” seven days a week, 24 hours a day.

Consider the following. How flexible is flexible? How is it possible to capitalise on the potential offered by learning communities in practice in a context where flexibility (time, place, pacing) takes on a whole new meaning? This question is now one that is critical for the future direction of online education.

Flexible access technologies – without these I wouldn’t be able to study this Masters.

Perhaps the most critical challenge to traditional universities is develop capacity to change.

Jona “Learner choice is the touchstone of the paradigm shift that needs to take place in education and in how it is delivered.”

Natural Human Learning
• Natural learning is goal-directed -
• Natural learning is driven by expectation failure – enable risk taking
• Finally, natural learning is case-based – enable personal experience

What does this mean for the future. I think that the future holds a blended approach for schools in the the contact time will be shorter and firmly focussed on action, drama and sport activities.