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BAOL Conference 2003
Warwick, UK, April 2003
Report by Donald Clark, Epic
'Learning for the Real World - strategy, practice and implementation'
The British Association for Open Learning's aim is 'to connect
people, methods and new ideas for learning.' This year's annual
conference worked on all three fronts. Lively networking and debate
was interleaved with sessions on methods of blending learning, auditing
learning and choosing suppliers.
On top of this, more than a few new ideas were aired. There was
a good mix of participants, with a heady mixture of academics, corporate
and public sector professionals.
Selected highlights:
Unblocking
arteries with LSC
…Keith Duckitt explained SARS (meaning, in this case, the national
and local strategic area reviews)... one idea in particular caught
my eye, the 'development of an e-learning planning tool'. I couldn't
agree more. The duplication of effort and lack of reason in choosing
strategic choices in learning has led to a system that is sclerotic...
More…
Learning as punishment
…One innovation was to strike a deal with NETg to allow the families
of employees to use their courses at home. Paul claims 100% positive
feedback on this. The idea of 300 Scottish families crowded round
the PC at night doing NETg courses takes some believing, but access
at home and to the families of employees is one way of getting the
stuff used... More…
De lange stares into the abyss
…A future of unstructured learning, learning agents and a generation
who know how to find things out for themselves… He sees knowledge
as essentially unstructured and anarchic, requiring a looser and
less structured approach to its dissemination... More…
Going up around the blend
Blended learning is the new rock and roll. If only we knew what
it meant… More…
Questions - and even some answers
As usual, the best discussions were in the bar… More…
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