As our time together draws to a close, this post from Clarence does as good a job of wrapping up what I was trying to do.
Remote Access: My Outboard Brain…..
Eric Toefler and I have been playing with a wiki and with ideas of classroom studios. What do studios look and sound like? What are ideas of assessment practices? Is there any value to this concept?
Do read the whole thing.
When I started, I don’t think I actually had the notion of “studio” in mind explicitly, but in looking back at my goals and objectives — teaching you to use technology to help yourselves learn, working with you to develop the notion of “thinking like a learner,” and giving you the space to examine the tools first hand — it’s clearly one of the better metaphors for this experience we’ve all shared for the last 16 weeks.
Oh, and along the way you learned a lot about distance education by experiencing a very different model of distance ed than you were used to.