1.7. LET PEOPLE LEARN AS THEY ALWAYS HAVE
Rather than use WBT to mimic existing methods of education, perhaps we should broaden the perspective to include all the ways people learn. Think of all the ways you have learned throughout your life. Here is a brief list of ways people learn with some notes on how WBT and its components can be used to enable anybody anywhere to learn that way.
| We learn by ... | How we can learn this way in WBT |
|---|---|
| Listening to lectures, interviews, debates, sermons, speeches, stories, testimonials, and discussions among experts | Webcasts (p 195) using audio and video. Case-study activities (p 226). Online conferences (p 548). Virtual response pads (p 361). Audioconferencing (p 363) and videoconferencing (p 364). Presentation sequences (p 199). Event-playback pages (p 163). |
| Seeking advice from parents, mentors, co-workers, bosses, psychologists, religious leaders, consultants, and friends | Mentoring (p 542). E-mail roster (p 110) along with biographies of the instructor (p 94) and learners (p 109). Discussion groups (p 348) and other collaboration mechanisms (p 346). Guest speakers in Webcasts (p 195). Scavenger hunt activities (p 204). |
| Reading books, manuals, papers, articles, poems, stories, reports | Presentation sequences (p 199). Related Resource pages (p 154) and Course resources pages (p 113). Virtual libraries (p 520). Search-the-Net pages (p 115). |
| Watching presentations, demonstrations, performances | Webcasts (p 195). Presentation sequences (p 199). Event-Playback ... |
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