3.1 Informal open learning is needed in many situations
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Internet is nice place for exchanging knowledge
(and TBL designed it for this)
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Knowledge (and knowledge production) helps learning
=> Internet is alive outside academics
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Best practise example: computer people
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use newsgroups & mailing lists order to solve hard problems, collaborate on open projects via the Internet, share code, etc.
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use and produce quick & dirty tutorials and examples
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do both "on the spot" and "just in time" learning
=> Internet is barely alive inside academics
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Worst practise example: higher education in Switzerland
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don't use Internet very much
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don't produce much of knowledge of interest on the Internet
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concentrate on formal teaching & learning: use tech to redo old stuff
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Exceptions: a few, e.g. Staf (somewhat)
-- TIE