Distance Learning Links?

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Try http://www.bitsembryo.org …. they aren’t antiquated though … DLP can only supplement .. I dont think it can make for an actual university degree, To me, the courses taught are just a part of the whole University Experience.

Chris– there are a lot of educational and educational technology bloggers talking about these subjects. Learning specific applications have not progressed as fast as some people predicted, but many of us think that learning specific applications aren’t very important and learning management systems (like Blackboard/WebCT, etc) even less so. Why disconnect the student experience from the real world? I and many others think it makes much more sense to use “real” web tools to create a “personal learning environment”– tools such as blogs, wikis, del.icio.us, YouTube, Dandelife, Second Life, etc.

Learning is really a social process… and what better way to realize a social community of learners than social software? This is squarely in the area of my own work, research, and writing: creating learning communities and promoting the new literacies needed to be a participatory learner, to engage in the real world while learning, to continue learning by creating one’s own learning “space” that serves as a place to connect, think, synthesize and share. Uber-bloggers do this naturally, another sign of the sense it makes.

If you are interested in this stuff, I would highly recommend checking out the sites of some educational/edtech bloggers. There are highly academic bloggers, of course, but the format tends to attract people who are really doing it, experimenting, and willing to talk about what they are doing. D’arcy Norman’s collection of edublogs is a good start… here’s the OPML for it.

Regarding your last couple of paragraphs, you might also want to check out the terms “Connectivism” and (separately) “information fluency” which are both attempts to answer the question of how and where we manage this knowledge (not to mention how we get the skills to participate and acquire that knowledge, etc).