(1Q) Did you find the session design process in LDSE intuitive? How? If not, please comment of how it fails to support how you do things usually. (1R) The process is straight-forward, but quickly I gained the sense that the platform is far *too* supportive. A bit of support is one thing; programmatic digitalizing of a course of learning is another. The former can be of direct service to the learning environment (classroom); the latter is likely to be only of use to extra-learning-environment bureaucrats and institutions. (2Q) What pedagogic insights did you gain into the session you described in the exercise? How could these help you design or deliver it differently? (2R) One thing the platform may help with is laying out facets of educators' concern when planning out an academic course of studies. But much of the jiggling involved in the LDSE program strikes me as expendable; a bit as relying on a very sophisticated computer to perform calculations such as 5+5. The charting out of proportions in aspects of courses of learning reminds me of "cost-effectiveness" charts in extra-academic business. (3Q) What problems do you have with LDSE as you have seen it? (3R) It is far too restraining for the educator and potentially counter-productive (distracting from the true aims of education) for a student who were to rely upon it. I am aware of the technical "efficiency" of the program (of how "high" the formatting/grid is placed above the particular changing/malleable needs of real learning environments); but I am also aware of the fact that technical efficiency ought not to trap our judgment in a web of sticky pre-formatted expectations--no matter how "high" (http://vimeo.com/16959911) above us these are capable of hiding. Essentially what LDSE appears to be aiming at is the gradual replacement of the educator's discerning virtue with "the machine." (4Q) What do you like about it? (4R) The platform "unpacks" many facets of institutional expectations. (5Q) Would you be interested in seeing the finished software? (5R) No.
This "Blog" contains an Academic Review of University Software Applications. The text *happens to contain* reflections of a broader scope (hence the philosophical title). Apologies to those linking to the page in search of more enlightened material.
Friday, 13 May 2011
Blog 12
Blog Thing 12
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