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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. If you are an educational professional or involved in learning in some way, you have likely browsed Web of Learning and searched for educational tools, resources, or activities that were pertinent to your courses, learners, and particular society or culture. You might have used these resources to create an entirely new course experience or module. You might have built online components for a course or educational activity that is taught face-to-face. Or perhaps you supplemented a learning experience that relied on videoconferencing, television, radio, outdoor education, correspondence, or some combination of such approaches. In effect, you found that Web of Learning can be course, an extension of it, or supplemental to it. And if learning pathways streaming from your course are freshly paved, you may sit impatiently awaiting exciting news and feedback from travelers to online experiences they have encountered. |
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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. technology integration speaker for regional e-learning conference
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