Elearning: 40 years of evolution? Nicholson, Paul and McDougall, A. 2005, Elearning: 40 years of evolution?, in WCCE 2005 : 8th IFIP World Conference on Computers in Education: 40 years of computers in education: what works?, Emerald, Bradford, England, pp. 1-6. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Elearning: 40 years of evolution? Author(s) Nicholson, Paul McDougall, A. Conference name IFIP world conference on computers in education (8th : 2005 : Cape Town, South Africa) Conference location Cape Town, South Africa Conference dates 4 - 7 July 2005 Title of proceedings WCCE 2005 : 8th IFIP World Conference on Computers in Education: 40 years of computers in education: what works? Editor(s) Pittman, Joyce Publication date 2005 Conference series International Federation for Information Processing World Conference on Computers in Education Start page 1 End page 6 Publisher Emerald Place of publication Bradford, England Summary Cun-ent rhetoric around the use of 'eLearning' in Higher Education relates particularly to Internet-based flexible eLearning programs that focus on sustaining particular communities of practice. In this paper we argue that this contempormy view of what eLearning comprises arises from a lack of historical perspective on what the focus of educational eLearning programs has been over the past 40 years. Contemporary descriptions of eLearning as a 'new mode of learning' are fallacious and ignore its 40-year evolution from 1: 1 localised didactic models (both constmctivist and behaviourist) to many-to-many distributed social-constmctivist learning models. In addition, the historic divide between Education and Training has led to both the concurrent development of different notions, foci, and labels for technology-enhanced learning in different contexts and situations, and different conceptual origins arising in acquisitive and participatory learning metaphors. We argue that a more inclusive and historically aware conceptual framework is needed to be able to accurately describe what the full repertoire 'eLearning' really embraces ISSN 0741-9058 Language eng Field of Research 130306 Educational Technology and Computing HERDC Research category E1 Full written paper - refereed Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30005882 Document type: Conference Paper Collection: School of Scientific and Developmental Studies in Education   Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Mon, 16 Feb 2009, 13:16:26 EST Fri, 10 Jul 2009, 15:02:15 EST Fri, 10 Jul 2009, 15:13:20 EST Thu, 06 May 2010, 12:17:52 EST Thu, 06 May 2010, 12:20:36 EST Fri, 16 Mar 2012, 15:46:04 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 771 Abstract Views, 0 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Mon, 07 Jul 2008, 09:55:32 EST

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