Over three months of H810 Accessible Online Learning and I'm reducing the lessons I've learnt to a few words - simplicity is one of them. Why? Might be the second - e-learning that does stuff because it can but is the equivalent to turning the Yellow Pages into a pop-up book with a scratch card for smell might win a pitch, but will it work in the ling term?
Anything and everything else would require an extraordinary detailed and qualified profile of the person.
This personalisation cannot be the one to one Oxbridge tutorial in which rapport between student and pofessor may develop and be sustained over years. Understandably The OU will not behave like Tescos and gather at every touch point your behaviour and respond accordingly. Though it would be advantageous to the individual if they did.
The technology steps in, but even call-centre staff have learnt or been taught the obvious: there is a client/customer relationship going on here and guess who matters most?
Any barriers that exist between formal and informal learning have long collapsed.
Do you want to publisize this?
Tools such as Zite and StumbleUpon stretch your learning into students and academics in competing institutions.
Others with who you interact are key, not least the tutor to whom you have been assigned.
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