elearning for music

One of the things that makes me so excited
about Web 2.0 is personalisation, in a general sense.  Much of my own
personalisation is facilitated by having my own laptop and using a
browser that is set up for logins to various tools.  These include
Flickr, myspace, delicious, a couple of blogs, bookmarks, rss feeds and
various ecommerce sites like PayPal.  And then there is my .mac account
that lets me access my personal server easily and my ftp account that
makes uploads to various servers hassle-free.

I would like everyone to have this same experience that comes with
sticking with your own laptop!  We have our own phones now -
personalised – the next logical step is our own computing devices.

I wonder what the Web 2.0 experience is for someone who uses
multiple machines (not to mentiton operating systems)?  Is it, in
itself, a barrier?

Barriers – the biggest I see is that teaching and learning for our
time requires a paradigm shift, in order to embrace new technologies
and structure T&L to exploit them.  I believe we need a strategy to
insist that teachers complete
professional development and rebuild their courses to use new tools,
rather like the current contractual obligation at my institution to have a recognised
teaching qual.  That won’t be popular, I guess, but I believe
we are failing our learners if we do not give them the 21st Century
tools – digital media, global communities,  self-publishing…..

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