Comments on: The 21st Century Campus http://blog.praxislanguage.com/2007/05/20/the-21st-century-campus/ Learning on Your Terms Fri, 05 Dec 2008 05:06:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Ken Carroll http://blog.praxislanguage.com/2007/05/20/the-21st-century-campus/#comment-19217 Ken Carroll Sun, 20 May 2007 13:35:26 +0000 http://blog.praxislanguage.com/2007/05/20/the-21st-century-campus/#comment-19217 Henning, This is actually Hank's post, so I'll let him answer you. Ken Henning,

This is actually Hank’s post, so I’ll let him answer you.

Ken

]]> By: Henning http://blog.praxislanguage.com/2007/05/20/the-21st-century-campus/#comment-19216 Henning Sun, 20 May 2007 12:50:03 +0000 http://blog.praxislanguage.com/2007/05/20/the-21st-century-campus/#comment-19216 Ken, this series of posts focuses on the requirements for the provider side. But learning always involves two parties. It is not a service where the service user can sit down passively and say "make me learned". It is not a haircut. The developments discussed here always presuppose idealistic learners that you only discover in small and rare biotopes like CPod. I think that much more important than new teaching systems, new teachers, new teaching materials, new teaching approaches, and new teaching technologies are in fact *new learners*. The learners will need to drive the change. If they are mentally to inflexible to actively look for alternatives, search for information, digest and interconnect it, and be willing to go beyond memorizing a manageable stack of lecture slides, everything will stay the same. Ken,
this series of posts focuses on the requirements for the provider side. But learning always involves two parties. It is not a service where the service user can sit down passively and say “make me learned”. It is not a haircut.

The developments discussed here always presuppose idealistic learners that you only discover in small and rare biotopes like CPod.

I think that much more important than new teaching systems, new teachers, new teaching materials, new teaching approaches, and new teaching technologies are in fact *new learners*.

The learners will need to drive the change. If they are mentally to inflexible to actively look for alternatives, search for information, digest and interconnect it, and be willing to go beyond memorizing a manageable stack of lecture slides, everything will stay the same.

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