ELEARNING AS A PROJECT OF CULTURAL CHANGE Ian Chowcat Project Director

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E-LEARNING AS A PROJECT OF CULTURAL CHANGE Ian
Chowcat Project Director
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This is South Yorkshire..
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• 72m investment
• 38,000 learners
• 150 schools and libraries
• 450 SMEs

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13,000 plus pieces of kit 21,000 individuals
getting qualifications 1 VLE shortly turning
into a learning portal
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• The focus has shifted to an interpretation of
  the project as a vehicle for cultural change
  using a significant IT implementation programme
  to facilitate it, rather than primarily an ICT
  programme
• SQW Year 2 Evaluation report

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Cultural change doing things differently but
why should people and organisations change?
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If e-learning is a vehicle for changing the
culture of education, who (or what) is the
driver?
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But if e-learning is of only instrumental value
something else is driving cultural change.
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Is the driver educational theory.or social
change?
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Avoid technological determinism.
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and social and educational utopianism
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What matters is what people are doing with
technology

• Interact
• Communicate
• Transactions
• Find information
• Plan and book trips

• Grab resources
• Download media
• Play games
• Share

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.and how they are changing society - and
themselves
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Education should change because people are using
it to change the way they work and live
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Its about what we teach as well as how we
teach..
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.digital natives need teachers
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So, e-learning is about change

• People and society not technology and educational
  theory
• Curriculum rather than pedagogy
• The social and economic relevance of education,
  not raising attainment
• Rich life chances in a digital world, not
  technophile utopianism