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E-LEARNING AS A PROJECT OF CULTURAL CHANGE Ian Chowcat – Project Director. This is South Yorkshire…. £72m investment 38,000 learners 150 schools and libraries 450 SMEs. 13,000 plus pieces of kit 21,000 individuals getting qualifications 1 VLE – shortly turning into a learning portal.
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E-LEARNING AS A PROJECT OF CULTURAL CHANGEIan Chowcat – Project Director
£72m investment 38,000 learners 150 schools and libraries 450 SMEs
13,000 plus pieces of kit 21,000 individuals getting qualifications 1 VLE – shortly turning into a learning portal
“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
Cultural change = doing things differently – but why should people and organisations change?
If e-learning is a vehicle for changing the culture of education, who (or what) is the driver?
But if e-learning is of only instrumental value something else is driving cultural change.
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Education should change because people are using it to change the way they work and live
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