Technics: online learning: Prof guesstimates time spent teaching online vs tech activities

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Prof Ken Hermann has an anecdotal analysis of what learning technics do to the ratio of a university instructor's time spent teaching students online vs. organizing and maintaining the digital-electronic technical apparatus for that purpose. He comes up with a whopping 80% for the latter, with only 20% of his time spent on what he most wants to do: preparing his content to actually teach students. Instead his time evaporates into the technical substructure of online teaching and learning.

TechNotes, by Owlie Scowlie

Online learning is a Big Biz not just for universities who add that mode of instruction to their repertoire, but also for specialist competitive corporations like Blackboard, alto the terms "competitive" and "like" may be stretching capitalist terminology where one company now wields a "virtual monopoly" -- as Kenn say in his earlier blog-entry "Time to Call Blackboard's Bluff" (Aug6,2k6). I recommend the entirety of Kenn's entries on his category "Technology and Society."

On matters of politics, big matters like war and peace, a view very different from Kenn Hermann's has been developed analytically by refWrite (Aug1,2k5), suggesting in that blog-entry a debate between him and David Horowitz.

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