e learning quotes
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In the spirit leading up to another Melbourne Cup -
Here are some of my favourite quotes around eLearning.
Peter Mellow #kiwirip2015
Boston Public Library on Flickr
“Within my lifetime, refusal by a faculty member to use distance-learning technology will be considered professional malpractice.”
Dr. Chris Dede, prof of Learning Technologies, HarvardChronicle of Higher Ed Oct 1999 Peter Miller on Flickr
“The goal is an organisation that is constantly making its future rather than defending its past.”
Hamel & Valikangas, 2003 in The Quest for Resilience - Harvard Business ReviewPaul on Flickr
“We don’t want to teach technology.
We want the technology to just support what we do.
It needs to disappear and let us teach.”
Anton Harfmann, Assoc Dean, University of Cincinnati
Paul Kehrer on Flickr
"If we continue to teach our students today,as we taught them yesterday, we rob them of tomorrow.”
John Dewey
John Athayde on Flickr
“Overall, the largest benefit gained by technology has been the ability to get the information to students on their terms”.
What guides educational development: pedagogy or technology? Palmer & Devitt 2005 - AUC conference
Chris Phutully on Flickkr
“…whether we like it or not,
whether we are ready for it or not,
Mobile learning represents the next step in a long tradition of technology-mediated learning.”
Ellen D. Wagner, Educause Review vol 40, no. 3 May/June 2005 pp. 40-53
Dean Beyett on Flickr
"Rather than resisting a popular technology because it's popular, we want to embrace that as a way to be more effective in communicating."
William Lynch, School of Education Director, Drexel University (2005)
Paul on Flickr
“Current generation of students expects seamless technology use.”
Brown, Oblinger. (2005)
Donnie Ray Jones on Flickr
“Most human learning is incidental and happens outside designated educational settings.”
Jared Still – Year 13 student at Tauraroa Area School near Whangarei. The College Herald 30/8/05
Paul on Flickr
“The proliferation of learning management systems suggests that no one system is sufficiently feature rich, or adequately flexible and extensible enough to meet everyone’s needs or even most institutions’ requirements.”Ira Fuchs, vice president for research in information technology, Mellon Foundation. (2004, July) Learning Management Systems: Are we there yet?Sheree Zielke on Flickr
“If a student can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.”
Ignacio Estrada
Jessica Cross on Flickr
“The race is not always to the swift…but to those that go the distance.” Translation - we have to be in elearning for the long run.
Paraphrased from Ecclesiastes 9:11 Alexander Kavun on Flickr
“Before you teach online,you should learn online.”
Nola Campbell,Waikato University
StudioTempura on Flickr
"Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you."
Satchel Paige
Dennis Forgione on Flickr