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Jonathan Vernon
Reflections on e-Learning
Why learn?
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Why learn?
Sunday, 18 Jan 2015, 15:43
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Edited by Jonathan Vernon, Monday, 19 Jan 2015, 07:41
Fig.1 After another twenty years? With age comes wisdom.
To get a job
: a better job, to pass through a gate towards a graduate job, as a springboard to a job.
To gain a qualification
: as above, though sometimes it is primarily a badge of honour and achievement
To feed your curiosity
: a compulsion or desire to better understand a think for the pure sake of learning.
To renew a long held interest
that may have started at school or with a first degree.
Because
it is expected of you
: your family and peers expect it.
To develop fluency in the subjec
t for whatever reason - which includes some of those above.
To apply your learning directly to a problem
: can be related to a job, research or intellectual curiosity.
To kill time:
like reading a book, doing Sudoko puzzles or watching Soaps. A pricey way to fill part of your day though?
To meet like-minded people.
As a catalyst
to who knows what.
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Fig.1 After another twenty years? With age comes wisdom.