What happens with e-learning?
And this is what I'm going to call The Not-So-New-School.
And now I'm going to do a comparison with The Not-So-New-School.
And this is an example here of my Moodle course.
So we had the cells in the time table
that structured the learning in the conventional classroom.
And here we have this syllabus which goes on relentlessly,
week by week, topic by topic, with things that are to be rated.
Might be a link to an e-textbook, for example.
So what we've done with a classical learning management system, and
by the way, this applies to all of them.
It applies to even the ones that have fancy fonts, the newest ones,
which look like they're different but they're actually not different at all.
It's an unfolding over a series of time,
chunks of content which are like the chunks of content in a textbook.
There's also not much dialogue.
Yeah, sure, there's a discussion area here in the corner of the thing and yes,
we might have the odd synchronous session.
But essentially, the architecture of it as a knowledge architecture,
is about delivering content.
So here we have a number of things which are in these e-learning environments,
which essentially replicate the historical architectures of the old school,
if you want to put it that way.
Learning management systems flipped classrooms.
I mean, there isn't a lot of difference between that teacher sitting at the front
of the room, or sitting up on their little desk and
speaking to that exophoric content that they're bringing into the classroom and
a video which also speaks in the same kind of way.
In both cases, the teacher speaks while the students listen.
It's the same kind of architecture.
The e-textbook, what's the difference between a print textbook and
an e-textbook not matched.
They both summarize the world.
They're both written by a single author.
And essentially the architecture is much the same.
There's a little bit of difference.
A few things might move and I can flip over the page and
have a little quiz at the end.
But I mean, we could do that in print textbooks as well.
We might have clickers, which are things where the kids put up their hands and
answer a question.
And instead of putting up the hands and answering a question, they click and
they give an answer, which is right or wrong.
The same way that those Q and
A sessions would have been in the traditional classroom.
Or we might have the electronic whiteboard.
Remember one of the other artifacts of these classrooms
is the teacher's at the front, they can write things on the board.
Well, electronic whiteboard, again, directs the attention of
the students in the classroom to a single point which is not each other.
It's actually at the same point in the classroom to which they were
directed with the traditional blackboard at the front of the room.