[LINK] !RE: Apple iPads for Victorian School Students

[Tom Worthington]

Ivan Trundle wrote (in reply to Fred Pilcher):

> ... A pity that an average school day isn't 5 hours long (not quite). And
> at Uni, nowhere near (if you attend all recommended tutorials and
> lectures).  ...

I solved the problem of the time taken by lectures in my Australian 
National University Green ICT course, by cancelling them all:
<http://blog.tomw.net.au/2009/07/e-learning-more-popular-than-blended.html>.

The postgraduate students like a course with no mandatory lectures and 
no examinations, so I am now proposing to extend this to undergraduates. 
But this approach to teaching is not popular with most of the teaching 
staff.

What I am aiming for is to remove the distinction between full time, 
part time, on campus, distance education, overseas and local students. 
Some students could do the courses entirely online, with ever visiting 
the campus. But most students would want (or need) some face to face 
tuition. The students could decide themselves which parts of the course 
they need face to face help with. I believe this approach could be 
extended to secondary and primary education as well and will be the real 
digital education revolution.

I will discuss some of this as the Moodle Moot in Melbourne: 
<http://moodlemoot.org.au/course/view.php?id=44>.


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