The document discusses the limitations of e-learning and outlines a vision for the future use of technology in education. While e-learning advocates say it increases access and flexibility, the document argues that simply making content available does not ensure learning. Effective learning requires motivation, meaning, and real-world application. New approaches are integrating technology to actively support collaboration, problem-solving skills, and knowledge transfer. The goal is technology-enhanced learning that facilitates deeper learning through activity-based and engaged experiences, using technology as cognitive tools rather than just content delivery mechanisms.

1. Beyond e- learning: the
limits and the future of
E-learning
ILO course:
Management of Distance Learning
Systems

2. Advocates of e-learning
say
• Through technology people can learn
anytime and anywhere

3. Are you think that…
• People are really keen to learn
anytime and anywhere?

4. People learn if
• They have a reason to learn
• Matters learned have a meaning in
their life
• Can use them in the real life
• Are aware of the benefits gained
through the effort of learning

5. • Simply giving access to “content”
• People don’t pick them up, just
because they are accessible and
available
• Anytime and anywhere

6. So….
• Which are the benefits, the reasons
to use technology in teaching and
learning?

7. E-learning advocates
answer are…
• Efficiency in the
– contents development, management and
delivering
– access to content and other learning
resources
– interaction (teacher – learner, learners
– learners)
– teachers and learners management

8. • Saving costs
– In work-time loss
– In teachers and trainees travel and
accommodation expenses
– For the re-use of resources (economy of
scale)

9. • Make learning courses more
– Flexible
– Customised
– Open
– Attractive /amusing

10. • None of these “strengthens” have to
deal with
– The learning experience
– The usefulness of learning
– The enhancement of learning

11. In fact…
• The e-learning market is reducing,
decreasing
• Many e-learning vendors have
bankrupted, closed, merged, resizing
• The image/perception stakeholder
and consumers have of e-learning is
getting worse

12. On the other side….
• People who believe technology could
enhance learning …
• … are devising new approach,
methodologies, tools, practice for
integrating technologies into teaching
and learning
• … to support teaching and learning

13. The starting point is the
concept of “learning”
• Learning is:
– Integrating new knowledge into existing
one
– Giving a (personal) meaning to knowledge
– Using knowledge as tools to solve
problems

14. The following point is the
aims of teaching
• The overall aim: to make learning
happens
• To facilitate learning
• To support learner within his/her
learning effort
• To arrange for learning resources

15. … then, the aim of
training
• To promote deep learning, not
surface learning
• To promote knowledge transfer from
the classroom to the real life
• To develop meta-cognitive skills
• To abilitate people to use knowledge
to solve problems

16. The real test for a
“good” training is
• What learners are able to do with
newly acquired knowledge when they
return back to work

17. technology are tools that
• are not vehicles which transfer
information but cognitive instruments;
• are not used merely to access information
but to support and facilitate collaboration
and socialisation;
• engage the learner in cognitive and
material activities;

18. …..
• do not guide/direct the learner but are
instruments which the learner can interact
with requiring, therefore, the learner’s
active participation;
• are not valued solely because the simplify
and make more efficient professional
activities, but are instruments which
improve the learner’s experience of
learning.

19. • The challenge of “post-e-
learning” practitioner using
technology is to find answers to
the following questions

20. • How do people learn and how is learning
enhanced/threatened when ICT is
integrated into the learning environment?
• How does the teacher’s role, competencies
and way of working/teaching change
when such technology is used?
• How does the learner’s way of
working/learning change when such
technology is used?

21. • Which learning strategies are useful in
technology-enhanced environments?
• Which learning is best learned and which goals are
best attained when using such technology?
• Is it possible to integrate conventional and
technology-enhanced methodologies? If so, how?
• How should the learner’s efforts in learning with
technology be supported/enhanced?

22. • How should conventional training
activities (classroom-based training;
teacher-driven training) be enhanced
by shifting, partially or completely,
into a technology-rich learning
environment?

23. My belief is that
• A useful conceptual framework is the
constructivist paradigm
• We should promote:
– Activity-based learning environments
– The engaged learner
• We have to use technology as
cognitive tools

24. I (but non only me) call this
“post” e-learning approach
Technology-enhanced learning

25. • Where the focus is about
technologies supporting learning
activities in order to enhance the
learning experience and the learning
achivements

26. • Only within this framework I see
technologies to give a real added-
value to the training, teaching,
learning process

27. “giving access” to information or to
digital (learning) materials is useful
but not enough, according to me