Podcast interview with Martin

Podcast interview with Martin

Tim Wilson གིས-
Number of replies: 4

Hi everyone,

I wanted to let all of you know that I've just published a podcast interview with Martin on my blog, The Savvy Technologist. You'll find the podcast near the top of the page or directly at http://technosavvy.org/?p=329

Martin and I discussed open source software, some of the educational philosophy behind Moodle, and a preview of upcoming features. Everyone is welcome to subscribe, of course. My blog covers the educational technology beat with an emphasis on Web-based and open source resources. A subscription to the whole blog will include the podcasts, or you can subscribe to the podcasts only at http://feeds.feedburner.com/technosavvy/podcast

There's also a one-click subscription link if you're an iTunes user.

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Timothy Takemoto གིས-

I found this part quite interesting and quotable...

"A lot of elearning before, and still, in many parts of the world, they still think quite heavily along this direction, that learning is about giving someone a text book and then quizzing them at the end to see how well it  stuck in their heads and that is a very very flat and very poor view of education. " (Martin Dougiamas)

There is a bit of a tension between the "elearning" at the beginning, and the "education" (in the general, not just e-education/online education) at the end. I wonder if it would still be Martin's view if it were "a very poor view of online education," or even if it is fair to say that the "online" is implied?

By the way, how did you record Skype? Pamela?

Tim 

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Martin Dougiamas གིས-
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Thank you for choosing to magnify the most incoherent sentence out of the lot. དགའ་འཛུམ་ However, I think it's fair to say it's a poor approach whether implemented online or not.

If I was using a text editor and not babbling in a microphone I would have said something like:

"A lot of people implementing elearning seem to have the view that learning is only about reading a textbook and then taking a quiz at the end. In my view this is a very poor approach to education that does not take full advantage of the Internet's possibilities for teaching and learning."

And you can quote me on that. མིག་ཁྱབ་
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Timothy Takemoto གིས-
Thanks Martin!
I really have to attempt to get my (half-baked) thoughts down on paper and should that happen it will be very helpful to have handy things like the above to quote, and rant about. wink
Tim
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