{"id":853,"date":"2008-02-05T14:05:51","date_gmt":"2008-02-05T21:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edtechpost.ca\/wordpress\/2008\/02\/05\/megaprovision-trends\/"},"modified":"2008-02-05T14:05:51","modified_gmt":"2008-02-05T21:05:51","slug":"megaprovision-trends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wordpress\/2008\/02\/05\/megaprovision-trends\/","title":{"rendered":"MegaTrends in E-Learning Provision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nettskolen.nki.no\/in_english\/megatrends\/\">http:\/\/nettskolen.nki.no\/in_english\/megatrends\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elearning-reviews.org\/topics\/strategy\/2007-keegan-e-learning-initiatives\/\">sporadic but often interesting e-learning reviews site<\/a> comes a note about this large-scale study of, well, large-scale European e-learning providers (or &#8220;megaproviders&#8221; as the report calls them.)<\/p>\n<p>Of most interest is perhaps the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nettskolen.com\/in_english\/megatrends\/Book4.pdf\">&#8220;Analyses of European megaproviders of e-learning&#8221;<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nettskolen.com\/in_english\/megatrends\/Recommendations.pdf\">&#8220;Recommendations for robust and sustainable large-scale e-learning&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Me, I&#8217;m not so sure I&#8217;m even keen on the notion of &#8220;megaproviders&#8221; any more, if I ever was. Some of the recommendations seem a bit obvious (&#8220;Recommendation 13: Robust, sustainable and large-scale e-learning initiatives should make sure to receive support from their top management&#8221; &#8211; uh huh) while others (&#8220;Recommendation 6: Use standard and widely-used technologies; widely-used technologies enable students to apply the software and hardware they have at their<br \/>\ndisposal with little need to buy and install additional equipment.&#8221;) don&#8217;t seem to me to go far enough in decrying errors we continue to make.<\/p>\n<p>Still, the report authors and funders are to be commended for having the courage to examine the <a href=\"http:\/\/nettskolen.nki.no\/in_english\/megatrends\/workpackage6.html\">host of failed projects to date<\/a> and try to learn from these. There is a lot of material here and much good stuff to be digested over the next week as I dig through it. Enjoy! &#8211; <em>SWL<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/nettskolen.nki.no\/in_english\/megatrends\/ Via the sporadic but often interesting e-learning reviews site comes a note about this large-scale study of, well, large-scale European e-learning providers (or &#8220;megaproviders&#8221; as the report calls them.) Of most interest is perhaps the &#8220;Analyses of European megaproviders of e-learning&#8221; and the &#8220;Recommendations for robust and sustainable large-scale e-learning&#8221;. Me, I&#8217;m not so &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wordpress\/2008\/02\/05\/megaprovision-trends\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MegaTrends in E-Learning Provision&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[124,144,234],"class_list":["post-853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-rest","tag-elearning","tag-failure","tag-megaproviders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}