At 3:44 pm -0500 7/3/02, don ledingham wrote:
>"Extreme Learning" I like it!!
>
>The very title is enough to switch youngsters onto learning.

If that's true then the title is worth keeping even if it transpires
that it's just a renaming of existing learning approaches ;-)

>
>I also believe in the power of learning collaboratively. I'm sure
>we could come up with an equation which would demonstrate that
>learning collaboratively is far more effective than learning as an
>individual. I accept that some folks prefer to learn/study by
>themselves but I would still argue that learning with another person
>or persons in an interactive and creative manner is extremely
>powerful.

I suspect that others better equipped than I will pitch in here with
the evidence that collaborative learning can be a big win in the
right circumstances. Certainly, recent experience at Strathclyde
with the Millennium Student project (URL to follow) demonstrates the
worth of this. Mind you that project had close to a £1M
investment in the laptops and infrastructure so you'd expect some
positive outcome ;-)

>
>Why don't we try to use this as a title for encouraging students to
>participate in our proposed pilot project?

Sure. I don't think anyone would object to a pilot project having
such a title. We'll work out the justification later B-)

How do you think this should be moved forward?

Cheers,

Duncan