http://johnthomson.org/2013/09/10/a-digital-liberal-education/ Thoughts on the social impacts of communication policy and educational technology. Wed, 08 Jan 2014 18:21:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.2 http://johnthomson.org/2013/09/10/a-digital-liberal-education/comment-page-1/#comment-6413 Fri, 27 Dec 2013 20:39:49 +0000 http://johnthomson.org/?p=1161#comment-6413 […] news, and the indomitable Audrey waters began her round up of the year. That said, John’s  A Digital Liberal Education? tied directly into what I’m thinking about on […]

]]> http://johnthomson.org/2013/09/10/a-digital-liberal-education/comment-page-1/#comment-6405 Fri, 22 Nov 2013 20:00:12 +0000 http://johnthomson.org/?p=1161#comment-6405 I struggle a little with this line:
“Knowledge and wisdom are two aspects of life development that I am skeptical can happen outside of a residential education.”
Though I understand have sympathy with this view I’m not sure if this is intrinsic to online or more a reflection on how we do online (both in terms of comparative maturity of our understanding of online ed ) I also feel that we can judge online by criteria that face to face might also struggle with (though we mostly know how one would fix the problem in f2f).
I also wonder at what point we should prioiritise access over depth (I dislike even thinking about that question but increasingly in my mind refuse to have a debate about quality which doesn’t talk about access a a factor – no critique of your thoughts is intended here, it’s more that that is where my head is at with this debate).
There is also perhaps a deeper debate about online /offline , degrees of ‘real’, and dualism which lurks in this conversations. I need to read those two pieces that prompted your reflection. Thank you for writing this.

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