Comments on: content is not enough

By: Chris Lott

Chris Lott — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:28:22 +0000

It’s doubtful that you would find anyone commenting on either the
post you mention or the followup that would disagree with what you
are saying here. In fact, those posts and a variety of others have
said essentially the same thing.

By: So much to write about, so little time « Random Thoughts

So much to write about, so little time « Random Thoughts — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:16:07 +0000

[…] really interesting post I would like to talk about more is
D’Arcy Norman’s content is not enough. He said: Content is
the least important part of education. What is far more important
is what […]

By: Steven BREWER

Steven BREWER — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:48:44 +0000

One of our biggest challenges is to build *spaces* that are appropriate to the task. I’m so tired of having to teach in spaces that are designed for knowledge transmission, rather than construction. It’s a huge, uphill battle.

By: Reflecting on OERs- Content vs. Information Scarcity « Open Education News

Reflecting on OERs- Content vs. Information Scarcity « Open Education News — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:52:05 +0000

[…] post generated many comments. Here are a couple of them: D’Arcy Norman: … Content is the least important part of education. What is far more important is what takes […]

By: Stian Haklev

Stian Haklev — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 14:29:29 +0000

D’Arcy, I totally agree. In fact, you could argue that for people who have access to decent libraries (I guess in the West at least anybody near a major city) have all the content they could ever dream of, but what is needed is the process of learning – and there could be lot’s of different models – some people want one-on-one, others want to read the same materials and discuss it as a cohort, others want evaluation and feedback, etc.

What we are trying to do with the peer2peeruniversity.org is exactly this – to raise kind of a “learning process” on top of all the OER that already exists. Our model is by far not the only valid one, but we hope it will be an interesting example.

By: nlowell

nlowell — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 22:23:36 +0000

You mean we should, like, talk to each other??! How can we possibly stay on topic? Measure time on task? Who do we know who to trust? What are you some kinda educator or something?? :)