No more lectures

This site exists to explore ways in which a conversation paradigm (as opposed to a broadcast paradigm) may be applied to learning and elearning, and

1. to promote active problem-based learning in work and educational settings
2. to identify software tools suitable to help learners engage in this kind of learning and to model the use of those tools, such as Swiki, Blogs and Social Bookmarking.
3. to identify techniques and tools to help teachers, professors, trainers  and organizations make the move from lecturing to facilitating active learning.

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So what's this really about?

The proposition is that more teachers, trainers, professors and individual learners would move to activity-based learning if there were tools and techniques out there to make it easy. 

Right now activity-based (say a problem-based small-group approach) is recognized by many as superior from a learning point of view (for the students, the groups and the class) but it's so damn much work:  all the stuff that students, groups, classes generate, how to facilitate this, how to "manage" it, how to *mark* it. 

So, we want to get a group of people together (starting with people we know are interested in/knowledgeable about this and know something about it but inviting wider participation once we get the site a little more developed) to explore the needs, the issues and current tools and to see if we can develop a toolkit for the working teacher or trainer to make activity-based learning feasible.  

We believe that the problem-based small-group model works in both the classroom and the work/organizational learning contexts.

We believe that these issues are principally ones of learning design, although the solutions may involve technology and that they apply to self-directed and classroom situations as much as to online.