[LINK] Digital distraction: New report raises concerns about online learning

[jwhit at internode.on.net]

Fyi, I started doing distance ed in Arizona in 1981 and the program
was 3 years old when I was hired. TV, radio and print delivery.
Interactive came later when audio teleconferencing became viable. We
owned a bridge. Then Video teleconferencing as well as Satellite and
later computer based. This was for adult ed/TAFE level and academic
programs.
Oh, and when I was in primary school, we had TV delivered education.
That was in the 1960s. If you're interested in that history, look up
MPATI. The broadcast was from -- an AIRPLANE!!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midwest_Program_on_Airborne_Television_Instruction
is a start.

So, no, this isn't new. Correspondence on paper has a much longer life
than these examples.
I find it amusing when the general society is exposed to things that
were niche/special applications as if they had "invented" it. It's
more a matter of exposure to something that they just hadn't had
experience with before.

Jan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Worthington" 
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Subject:Re: [LINK] Digital distraction: New report raises concerns
about online learning

 On 16/4/20 7:50 am, Antony Broughton Barry wrote:

 >
https://www.smh.com.au/business/workplace/digital-distraction-new-report-raises-concerns-about-online-learning-20200415-p54k0l.html

 There were concerns about TV being a distraction, back in the days of

 correspondence courses and educational broadcasts. There are 
 technological distractions, but decades of experience shows this is 
 manageable.

 Technology enabled distance education learning is not new. The 
 Australian Schools of the Air are an early example for children. 
 Australia's University of New England pioneered techniques for adult 
 distance education, later adopted by the Open University in the UK,
and 
 from there around the world

 https://blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/2013/08/lessons-for-moocs-from-open-university.html

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