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Ubiquitous Learning - Changing the Time-Space Dimensions of Learning?
Join us in our e-Learning Ecologies MOOC, where people this week are discussing the concept of Ubiquitous Learning. Ubiquitous computing extends the scope of learning beyond the walls of the classroom and the cells of the timetable. How can learning break out of its traditional spatial and temporal confinements? And when it does, can it be as good as, or even better than, the best traditional classroom learning?
Professionals normally are learning the ubiquitous way. Once their course is completed they are required to keep up with the developments happening in their profession and specialities. This they do mostly by associating with other professionals and from the information available in the professional journals and on the web,
Ubiquitous learning - Learning with time and space - Would like to take education in BC century- how learning took place.
Student lived with the teacher, teacher could see exactly what students learn and they learn by doing..
http://www.academia.edu/1747225/HISTORY_OF_EDUCATION_IN_INDIA
I see in this era - technology facilitated to the learnings we did in those periods. Its like we see old fashions come in trend now..
In the BEST traditional classroom, the students are engaged; the teacher thoroughly understands the content; everyone gets a voice in the discussion; feedback is immediate, and the course design is the map used to direct the learning journey. This can be accomplished in distance learning.
One of the strengths of ubiquitous learning is that everyone has a voice. Students participating in a face-to-face class are limited by time, the quantity of students, and class procedures. It would be difficult for all 25 students in a 50-minute class to comment on a particular subject.
In ubiquitous learning, feedback can still be quick, but probably not immediate and most likely not from the instructor. It is unreasonable to expect the instructor to comment on every post within 15 minutes of be submitted. The community of learners needs to offer elaborate feedback and the authors need to be receptive to suggestions.
Without a plan for it usage, giving students an IPAD will not automatically improve their learning. A face-to-face course will need to be redesigned to make it as good or better when delivered at a distance.