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I’m undertaking a formal course with Swim England over the next year. Similar to the OU, there will be three 'Residentials' throughout the year where we all gather—the fifty or so participants on the course. Otherwise, it follows everything I have come to expect over the years: live online sessions, a ‘hub' for content uploads, and using the Google Classroom platform. Appraisals will be face-to-face, naturally, and a mentor will be assigned from the beginning. 

I’m here because 'reflection’ is considered necessary, and after all, the purpose of this platform was to reflect in public to get feedback from fellow travellers. I’ll follow an Open Learn course on Sports Science in tandem. 

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‘If all you have in your toolbox is a hammer, the problem tends to look like a nail.’

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Edited by Jonathan Vernon, Sunday, 14 Nov 2010, 07:51


‘If all you have in your toolbox is a hammer, the problem tends to look like a nail.’


Are Liveski and Joyce (2003) saying, with a sideways swipe at Salmon’s (2002) Five-stage model of e-moderation, that these approaches, pre-assembled, or pre-set course production guidelines or online tools, are somehow pre-empting and therefore skewing courses that may be designed with them, that the parameters are limiting, not freeing and allowing for innovation?

What Liveski and Joyce fail to envisage in 2003 is that we are not talking hammers and nails, with the Salmon Five stage model the hammer to crack all online learning nuts. We are talking instead of a multitude of seeds of e-learning possibility scattered across rich or poor ground ... some flourish, some do not. The authors fail to recognise the wealth of interactive learning development and computer based learning that was being produced long before Salmon came along and offered some practioners and simple approach to adopt.

 

REFERENCE

Salmon, G. (2002). E-tivities: the key to active online learning.

Liveski, B and Joyce, P (2003) Examining the five-stage e-moderating model: Designed and emergent practice in the learning technology profession

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