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What educators and learning professionals, as well as politicians, IT managers, and other educational stakeholders need to grasp is that, from an educational standpoint, Web is no longer just Web. Today Web is better known as Web of Learning. How this Web of Learning is viewed from different regions of world or educational sectors will become apparent from reading this book. This companion material illustrates free and open learning world. I envision a day not too long from now when others follow suit. Chapter 1: WE ALL LEARN Been There, Done That Do you have a favorite place to visit or spend your holidays? I know of a place that is visited by hundreds of millions of people each day. Given that you selected this book, at least online one and at least for a moment, you have likely already been there and been amazed by views and personalized services available. Perhaps you were captain of ship that brought everyone else there. Once docked there, you may have used your talents as a musician to add your own unique style and creativity to a band that had gathered. Or perhaps you offered some safety management, security, or environmental services to protect pristine forests and valued minerals that lay in front of most passing by. Given millions of learning portals, growing number of simulation tools, course resource possibilities, and thousands of possible online course activities, it is small wonder many are stymied about what to do online. There is so much to know that many give up or simply do not start. Some may venture slowly inside or take baby steps as actor Bill Murray did when assuming role of Bob Bobby Wiley, a highly manipulative obsessive-compulsive man, in 1991 hit movie, What about Bob?. His psychiatrist, Dr. Leo Marvin, better known as actor Richard Dreyfus, got him on path to taking baby steps. For some it will be critical to repeat as Bob did, baby steps, baby steps, baby steps, before venturing into this massive Web of Learning. Without a doubt, there may be some real as well as imagined aches and pains along way. learning results, as well as emotional gains from new colleagues and networks, however, are often worth mental effort. While most of us are not as panicky or nervous as Bob, we nonetheless have all had our moments of being overwhelmed with information. |
World Is Open elearning book reviews
Most of the World is Open learning is effortful and, at times, painful. At same time, when you have choice in your learning pursuits and those presented to you are highly interactive and engaging, it can be one of most gratifying experiences known to humankind. Web of Learning can be exactly that. And, remember, is it less than two decades old. Stated another way, it is but a child. As World is Open matures, it will bring more learning pleasures and experiences; some of which we can at least dream about today, but much that lies far beyond our field of dreams. We are entering a learning culture. A new epoch for our species and World is Open.